214 TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA ! 
behind trees or bushes, in the most irregular 
manner. Notwithstanding the great pains that 
were taken formerly, both by the French and 
English, they never Could be brought to fight 
in any other manner. It was in this manner* 
and no other, as I heard from several men who 
were in the action with them, that they fought 
against General Wayne ; each one, as soon as 
the American troops were descried, instantly 
sheltered himself, and in retreating they still 
kept under covert. It was by fighting them 
also in their own way, and by sending parties 
of his light troops and cavalry to rout them 
from their lurking places, that General Wayne 
defeated them ; had he attempted to have 
drawn up his army in 'the regular order de¬ 
scribed in the plan, he could not but have met 
with the same fate as St. Clair, and General 
Braddockdid, on a former occasion. 
Between thirty and forty Indians, who had 
been shot^or bayoneted as they attempted to 
run from one tree to another, were found dead 
on the field by the American army. It is sup¬ 
posed that many more were killed, but the 
fact of the matter could never be ascertained 
by them : a profound silence was observed on 
the subject by the Indians, so that I never 
pould learn accurately how many of them had 
fallen ; that however is an immaterial circum¬ 
stance ; suffice it to say, that the engagement 
