INDEX, 



A. 



Abbadie. See D'Abbadie. 



Abfiiakis, some of them present at 

 the battle of tlie Monongaiiela, 

 i. 107, 14!3. 



Abercrombie, General James, has 

 a force of 6 ),UOvJ men, i. 120 ; fails 

 in his attack on Ticonderoga, 

 123, 124. 



Acadia ceded to the Englisii crown, 

 i. yo ; disputes respecting its 

 boundaries, ih. ; reduced by Col. 

 Monkton, ill; the inhabitants 

 transported, il). 



Albany, meeting of colonial dele- 

 gates the.e, i. lOl ; a rendezvous 

 for Indian traders, 151. 



4.lt/unquin family of Indians, found 

 over a vast extent of territory, 

 i. 29 ; their inferiority to the Iro- 

 quois, 37 ; points of distinction, 

 ib. ; their legends, 38 ; and reli- 

 gious belief, 3d ; Algonquin hfe, 

 35, 36. 



Allegory uttered by Pontiac, i. 204- 

 207. 



Ambuscade at the Devil's Hole, ii. 

 76; a convoy lost there, 77 ; an- 

 other ambuscade, 78 ; another, 

 97. 



Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, afterwards 

 Lord Amherst, takes Louisburg, 

 i. 122 ; also Ticonderoga and 

 Crown Point, 126 ; captures Mon- 

 treal, 141 ; sends a force to take 

 possession of the western posts, 

 164 ; his contempt and careless 

 treatment of the Indians, 181 note, 



195; his letter to Major Glad- 

 wyn, 242 nofe ; his uncomfortable 

 position, il. 29; his inadequate 

 compr-ehension of the Indian war, 

 32 ; takes measures to reinforce 

 the frontier garrisons, 32-34 ; 

 hears of the murders near De- 

 troit, 35 ; determines on " quick 

 retaliation," 36 ; wishes to hear of 

 no prisoners, 38 ; his blus'.ering 

 arrogance, 39 iiote ; proposes to 

 infect the Indians with small pox, 

 39, 40; his anger at tl:e feeble 

 conduct of the Pennsylvania As- 

 sembly, 96 ; resigns Irs office as 

 commander-in-chief, lU3; his ig- 

 norance of Indian affairs. If)?. 



Aiu/asfes, swept away before the 

 Iroquois, i. 25 ; a remnant of 

 them at Conestoga, ii. 118 /-o/,-. 



Armstrong, Colonel, his expedition 

 against the Indians on the upper 

 Susquehanna, ii. 100. 



Afotdrho, name of the presiding 

 sachem of the Iroquois : strange 

 legend concerning the first of tlie 

 name, i. 13, 14. 



B. 



Baby, a Canadian near Detroit, 

 suppUes food to the garrison, 

 i. 248 ; scene between him and 

 Pontiac, 257 ; befriends the gar- 

 rison, 288. 



Ball-play, Indian, described, i. 339, 

 340 ; a prelude to the massacre 

 at MichiUimacklnac, 340. 



