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eration ! . . . I forgot to tell you that they threw 

 fire-arrows to burn our works, but they could not 

 reach the buildings, nor even the rampart. Only 

 two arrows came into the fort, one of which had 

 the insolence to make free with my left leg." 



This letter was written on the second of August. 

 On the day before the Indians had all decamped. 

 An event, soon to be described, had put an end to 

 the attack, and relieved the tii'ed garrison of their 

 presence.^ 



1 Extract from a MS. Letter — Colonel Bouquet to Sir J. Amheist : — 



" Fort Pitt, 11th Aug. 1763. 



" Sir : 



" We Arrived here Yesterday, without further Opposition than Scat- 

 tered Shots along the Road. 



" The Delawares, Shawnese, Wiandots, & Mingoes had closely Beset, 

 and Attacked this Fort from the 27th July, to the First Instant, when they 

 Quitted it to March against us. 



" The Boldness of those Savages is hardly Credible ; they had taken 

 Post under the Banks of Both Rivers, Close to the Fort, where Digging 

 Holes, they kept an Incessant Fire, and threw Fire Arrows : They are 

 good Marksmen, and though our People were under Cover, they Killed 

 one, & Wounded seven. — Captain Ecuyer is Wounded in the Leg by an 

 Arrow. — I Would not Do Justice to that Officer, should I omit to Inform 

 Your Excellency, that, without Engineer, or any other Artificers tlian a 

 few Ship Wrights, he has Raised a Parapet of Logs round the Fort, 

 above the Old One, which having not been Finished, was too Low, and 

 Enfiladed ; he has Praised the Whole ; PaHsadoed the Inside of the Aria, 

 Constructed a Fire Engine ; and in short, has taken all Precautions, 

 which Art and Judgment could suggest for the Preservation of this Post, 

 open before on the three sides, which had suffered by the Floods " 



