part of the march upon horse flesh, and had even devoured a porcupine without any other dressing than sufficed just to scorch off the hair and quills.

-- Eastbum's Narrative.

Eastburn, after a tedious voyage with part of this company, arrived at Oswegotchy an Indian town.

Those who may not have access to the Vol. of the Annual Reg. containing this Nar. will find it reprinted in Loudon's Chambersburgh, Pa., 1839; also in Drake's

Coll. of Ind. Narratives, Carlisle, Pa., 1811, Vol. ii: Incidents of Border Life,

Tragedies of the Wilderness, Boston, 1841.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE ONEIDA COUNTRY AND MOHAWK VALLEY.

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From the same, April 12. ]

What we have been able to collect from some Letters and Verbal Information is as follows, viz'. That about the 18 th March [0. S.] a large Body of French & Indians attacked, and cut off 16 of our Battoes, near the Carrying Place, and either killed or captivated the greatest Part of the People that as soon as the Officer that commanded about 35 men that were posted there, heard the firing, he ;

detached a party to their Assistance, and as they did not return agreeable to his Expectation, he sent another Detachment, which so weakened the Garrison, that a Number of the Enemy that lay in

Ambush, rushed in, put them all to the sword, blew up the Powder, & destroyed the Garrison, whilst the rest of the Enemy were engaged with our people, whom they killed or carried off, as only