270 KOUT OF CUYLER'S DETACHMENT. [1768, Mat. 



Late one afternoon, at about this period of the 

 siege, the garrison were again greeted with the dis- 

 mal cry of death, and a line of naked warriors was 

 seen issuing from the woods, which, like a wall 

 of foliage, rose beyond the pastures in rear of the 

 fort. Each savage was painted black, and each 

 bore a scalp fluttering from the end of a pole. It 

 was but too clear that some new disaster had be- 

 fallen ; and in truth, before nightfall, one La Brosse, 

 a Canadian, came to the gate with the tidings that 

 Fort Sandusky had been taken, and all its garrison 

 slain or made captive.^ This post had been attacked 

 by the band of Wyandots living in its neighbor- 

 hood, aided by a detachment of their brethren from 

 Detroit. Among the few survivors of the slaughter 

 was the commanding officer. Ensign Paully, who 

 had been brought prisoner to Detroit, bound hand 

 and foot, and solaced on the passage with the ex- 

 pectation of being burnt alive. On landing near 

 the camp of Pontiac, he was surrounded by a crowd 

 of Indians, chiefly squaws and children, who pelted 

 him with stones, sticks, and gravel, forcing him to 

 dance and sing, though by no means in a cheerful 

 strain. A worse infliction seemed in store for him, 

 when happily an old woman, whose husband had 

 lately died, chose to adopt him in place of the 

 deceased warrior. Seeing no alternative but the 

 stake, Paully accepted the proposal ; and, having 

 been first plunged in the river, that the white blood 

 might be washed from his veins, he was conducted 



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