230 BOUQUET IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY. [1764, Nov. 



tives early in the following spring, and giving up 

 six of their chiefs as hostages. These conditions 

 were agreed to ; and it may be added that, at the 

 appointed time, all the prisoners who had been 

 left in their hands, to the number of a hundred, 

 were brought in to Fort Pitt, and delivered up to 

 the commanding officer.^ 



From the hard formalities and rigid self-control 

 of an Indian council-house, where the struggles of 

 fear, rage, and hatred were deep buried beneath 

 a surface of iron immobility, we turn to scenes of 

 a widely different nature ; an exhibition of mingled 

 and contrasted passions, more worthy the pen of 

 the dramatist than that of the historian ; who, 

 restricted to the meagre outline of recorded author- 

 ity, can reflect but a feeble image of the truth. In 

 the ranks of the Pennsylvania troops, and among 

 the Virginia riflemen, were the fathers, brothers, 

 and husbands of those whose rescue from captivity 

 was a chief object of the march. Ignorant what 

 had befallen them, and doubtful whether they were 

 yet among the living, these men had joined the 



1 A party of the Virginia volunteers had been allowed by Bouquet to 

 go to the remoter Shawanoe towns, in the hope of rescuing captive rela- 

 tives. They returned to Fort Pitt at midwinter, bringing nine prisoners, 

 all children or old women. The whole party was frost-bitten, and had 

 endured the extremity of suffering on the way. They must have per- 

 islied but for a Shawanoe chief, named Benewisica, to whose care Bouquet 

 had confided them, and who remained with them both going and return- 

 ing, hunting for them to keep them from famishing. — Capt. Murray to 

 Bouquet, 31 Jan. 1765. 



Besides the authorities before mentioned in relation to these trans- 

 actions, the correspondence of Bouquet with the commander-in-chief, 

 throughout the expedition, together with letters from some of the officers 

 who accompanied him, have been examined. For General Gage's sum- 

 mary of the results of the campaign, see Appendix, F. 



