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to the lodge of the widow, and treated thenceforth 

 with all the consideration due to an Ottawa warrior. 

 Gladwyn soon received a letter from him, through 

 one of the Canadian inhabitants, giving a full 

 account of the capture of Fort Sandusky. On the 

 sixteenth of May — such was the substance of 

 the communication — Paully was informed that 

 seven Indians were waiting at the gate to speak 

 with him. As several of the number were well 

 known to him, he ordered them, without hesitation, 

 to be admitted. Arriving at his quarters, two of 

 the treacherous visitors seated themselves on each 

 side of the commandant, while the rest were dis- 

 posed in various parts of the room. The pipes 

 were lighted, and the conversation began, when an 

 Indian, who stood in the doorway, suddenly made 

 a signal by raising his head. Upon this, the aston- 

 ished officer was instantly pounced upon and 

 disarmed ; while, at the same moment, a confused 

 noise of shrieks and yells, the firing of guns, and 

 the hurried tramp of feet, sounded from the area 

 of the fort without. It soon ceased, however, and 

 Paully, led by his captors from the room, saw the 

 parade ground strown with the corpses of his mur- 

 dered garrison. At nightfall, he was conducted to 

 the margin of the lake, where several birch canoes 

 lay in readiness ; and as, amid thick darkness, the 

 party pushed out from shore, the captive saw the 

 fort, lately under his command, bursting on all 

 sides into sheets of flame. ^ 



1 MS. OflBcial Document — EepoH of the Loss of the Posts in the Indian 

 Country, enclosed in a letter from Major Gladwyn to Sir Jeflfrey Amherst, 

 July 8, 1763. 



