was not until the enemy were returning home victorious, after having desolated the French possessions, that a force of four

it

hundred soldiers was mustered to pursue them. BLACK KET TLE is said to have had but half that number with him at this After losing juncture, but he gave battle and fought desperately. broke men with some he slain, prisoners, through the twenty

French ranks and escaped, leaving a considerable number of his

!

APPENDIX.

The story is no doubt exagge

enemies wounded and killed."

rated, but the courage and daring of the famous chief is well attested.

At a later period the names of SKENANDO, CORNPLANTER and

RED JACKET are prominent in Indian annals.

The former

was of 'the Qnetdas, and the author of this famous reply: " I am an aged

hemlock

whistled through

;

the

winds of an

my branches

;

hundred

winters

have

am dead at the top.

The

generation to which I belonged has run away and left me." He was one of the converts to the missionary, Kirkland ; was a warm friend of the Americans in

during the revolution, and died CORN1816, at the age of one hundred and ten years.

PLANTER was trader.

a

Seneca half-breed, his father being a Dutch

RED JACKET was a full-blooded Seneca.

Both were

distinguished for their eloquence, and both were engaged in the border wars of the revolution as inveterate enemies of the colo nists. The former died in 1836, at the age of one hundred and one years, and the latter in 1830, aged about ninety years. PASSACONNAWAY, who was at the head of the Pennacooks