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had a hole m her bottom. Treachery should be 

 paid with treachery ; and it is a more than ordinary 

 pleasure to deceive those who would deceive us." ^ 

 Bradstreet had retraced his course to Sandusky, 

 to keep his engagement with the Delaware and 

 Shawanoe deputies, and await the fulfilment of 

 their worthless promise to surrender their pris- 

 oners, and conclude a definitive treaty of peace. 

 His hopes were defeated. The appointed time 

 expired, and not a chief was seen ; though, a few 

 days after, several warriors came to the camp, 

 with a promise that, if Bradstreet would remain 

 quiet, and refrain from attacking their villages, 

 they would bring in the prisoners in the course 

 of the following week. Bradstreet accepted their 

 excuses ; and, having removed his camp to the 

 carrying-place of Sandusky, lay waiting in patient 

 expectation. It was here that he received, for the 



1 MS. Letter — il/o?T/.s to Bradstreet, 18 Sept. 1764. 



The journal sent by Morris to Bradstreet is in the State Paper Office 

 of Loudon. This journal, and the record of an examination of Morris's 

 Indian and Canadian attendants, made in Bradstreet's presence at San- 

 dusky, were the authorities on which the account in the first edition of 

 this work was based. Morris afterAvards rewrote his journal, with many 

 additions. Returning to England after the war, he lost his property by 

 speculations, and resolved, for the sake of his children, to solicit a pen- 

 sion, on the score of his embassy to the Illinois. With this view it was 

 that the journal was rewritten ; but failing to find a suitable person to 

 lay it before the King, he resolved to print it, together with several 

 original poems and a translation of the fourth and fourteenth satires of 

 Juvenal. The book appeared in 1791, under the title of Miscellanies in 

 Prose and Verse. It is very scarce. I am indebted to the kindness of 

 Mr. S. G. Drake for the opportunity of examining it. 



The two journals and the evidence before Bradstreet's court of inquiry 

 agree in essentials, but differ in some details. In this edition, I have 

 followed chiefly the printed journal, borrowing some additional facts from 

 the evidence taken before Bradstreet. 



