CHAPTER XXVII. 



1764. 



BOUQUET FORCES THE DELAWARES AND SHAWANOES 

 TO SUE FOR PEACE. 



The work of ravage had begun afresh upon the 

 borders. The Indians had taken the precaution to 

 remove all their settlements to the western side of 

 the River Muskingum, trusting that the impervious 

 forests, with their unnumbered streams, would 

 prove a sufficient barrier against invasion. Having 

 thus, as they thought, placed their women and 

 children in safety, they had flung themselves upon 

 the settlements with all the rage and ferocity of the 

 previous season. So fierce and active were the 

 war-parties on the borders, that the English gov- 

 ernor of Pennsylvania had recourse to a measure 

 which the frontier inhabitants had long demanded, 

 and issued a proclamation, oifering a high bounty 

 for Indian scalps, whether of men or women ; a 

 barbarous expedient, fruitful of butcheries and 

 murders, but incapable of producing any decisive 

 result.^ 



1 The following is an extract from the proclamation : — 

 " I do hereby declare and promise, that there shall be paid out of the 

 moneys lately granted for his Majesty's use, to all and every person and 



