234 TREACHERY OF PONTIAC. [1763, Mat. 



was commenced, and long before morning the 

 transfer was complete. The whole Ottawa popu- 

 lation crossed the river, and pitched their wigwams 

 on the western side, just above the mouth of the 

 little stream then known as Parent's Creek, but 

 since named Bloody Eun, from the scenes of terror 

 which it witnessed.^ 



During the evening, fresh tidings of disaster 

 reached the fort. A Canadian, named Desnoyers, 

 came down the river in a birch canoe, and, landing 

 at the water gate, brought news that two English 

 officers. Sir Robert Davers and Captain Robertson, 

 had been waylaid and murdered by the Indians, 

 above Lake St. Clair.^ The Canadian declared, 

 moreover, that Pontiac had just been joined by a 

 formidable band of Ojibwas, from the Bay of Sagi- 

 naw.^ These were a peculiarly ferocious horde, 

 and their wretched descendants still retain the char- 

 acter. 



Every Englishman in the fort, whether trader or 

 soldier, was now ordered under arms. No man 



1 Gouin's Account, MS. 



2 Penn. Gaz. Nos. 1807, 1808. 



Extract from an anonymous letter — Detroit, July 9, 1763. 



•' You have long ago heard of our pleasant Situation, but the Storm is 

 blown over. Was it not very agreeable to hear every Day, of their cut- 

 ting, carving, boiling and eating our Companions ? To see every Day 

 dead Bodies floating down the River, mangled and disfigured ? But 

 Britons, you know, never shrink ; we always appeared gay, to spite the 

 Rascals. They boiled and eat Sir Robert Davers ; and we are informed 

 by Mr. Pauly, who escaped the other Day from one of the Stations sur- 

 prised at the breaking out of the War, and commanded by himself, that 

 he had seen an Indian have the Skin of Captain Robertson's Arm for a 

 Tobacco-Pouch ! " 



3 Pontiac MS. 



