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INDEX. 



Menomonies, 363, 365 ; embarks 

 •with his garrison, 365 ; arrives 

 at Montreal, 367. 



Goshen, N. Y., false alarm there ; 

 its singular cause, ii. 75. 



Gouin, , a Canadian, cautions 



Gladwyn, i. 219 ; endeavors the 

 security of British officers, 238 ; 

 his account of transactions near 

 Detroit, Appendix C, 269 note. 



Grant, Mrs. Anne, her erroneous 

 account of the murder of Sir 

 Robert Davers, i. '2Q2nofe. 



Grant, Captain, in the disastrous 

 affair at Bloody Bridge, i. 309, 

 311, 315, 316. 



Gray, Captain, falls in the fight at 

 Bloody Bridge, i. 313. 



Gray, a soldier at Presqu' Isle, ii. 

 15; escapes massacre, ib. 



Gray, Thomas, his " Elegy in a 

 Country Church- Yard," repeated 

 by Wolfe, the night before liis 

 death, i. 131. 



Green, Thomas, a trader, slain by 

 the Indians, ii. 8 note. 



Geeen Bay, a French settlement, i. 

 65, 62 ; taken posses-sion of by 

 the English, 170 ; its early his- 

 tory, 324 ; an important post, 

 362; abandoned by its com- 

 mander, but its garrison pre- 

 served 365-367. 



Greenbrier, Va., attack on, ii. 87. 



" Griffin," The first vessel built 

 on the upper lakes, i. 58 ; her 

 voyage on Lakes Erie and Hu- 

 ron, ib. 



H. 



Heckewelder, John, Moravian mis- 

 sionary, relates a curious story 

 of the superstitious regard of 

 Indians for insane persons, ii. 9. 

 10. 



Hendrick, the Mohawk chief, slain 

 at the battle of Lake George, i. 

 116. 



Henry, Alexander, pioneer of the 

 EngUsh fur-trade in the extreme 

 North-west, i. 326; his adven- 

 tures, 327 ; his interview with an 

 Ojibwa chief, 327-331 ; attacked 

 by a party of Ottawas, 331 ; an 

 Ojibwa chief takes a liking to 



him, 335; and warns him of 

 danger, 336 ; escapes the massa- 

 cre at Michillimackinac, 342 ; 

 his account quoted, 841-348 ; 

 his extreme danger, 344, 345 ; 

 his life spared, and the manner 

 thereof, 343 ei se(/. ; his further 

 adventures, 349-352, 360 ; painted 

 and attired like an Indian, 361 ; 

 extract from Henry's Travels, ii. 

 168-170; he is delivered from 

 captivity and brought safely to 

 Niagara, 175. 



Hodenosaunee, the Indian name for 

 the Five Nations, i. 7. 



Holmes, Ensign, commander of 

 Fort Miami, discovers a plot of 

 the Indians against the English, 

 i. 189 ; the fort is taken, and he 

 is killed by the Indians, 278. 



Hopkins, Mr., of Wyoming, escapes 

 the massacre there, ii. 102. 



Howe, Lord, killed at Ticonderoga, 

 i. 123. 



Hughes, John, of Lancaster, Pa., 

 details of his plan to hunt the 

 Indians with dogs, 41 note. 



Hiirons or \V(/andots, their popula- 

 tion, i. 22 ; had characteristics in 

 common with the Iroquois, 23 ; 

 their utter ruin and dispersion, 

 24 ; present at Braddock's de- 

 feat, 109 ; then- population es- 

 timated, 148 ; their energy, 151 ; 

 a conquered people, 146. 



Iberville, Lemoine d', founds the 

 colony of Louisiana, i. 61. 



Illinois nation of Indians, i. 33 ; 

 tribes of which that nation was 

 composed, ii. 312, note. 



Illinois River, the region described, 

 ii. 245 et seq. ; its early coloniza- 

 tion, 249-251; character of the 

 first settlers, 251 ; the popula- 

 tion, its numbers and location, 

 253 ; the Indians of tliat country, 

 254, 255 ; the English take pos- 

 session of Fort Chartres, and of 

 the Illinois country, 269, 298. 



Insanity, persons laboring under 

 it, superstitious regard of In- 

 dians for, ii. 9, 10. 



Indian summer described, ii. 110. 



