I left 40 men there and gave them orders to fortify themselves and set palisades around, which they did,and T followed the preceding troop with the remainder towards 'the Indian fort. On arriving there, found our people in possession of it, as it had been abandoned by the Indians two days before. | Our Indians had caught a Squaw in the corn-field, whither she was coming to eut maize. Now the evening falling, for it was about 6 o'clock when we came to the fort, we passed the night there, having found 3 horses at their fort.

28th ditto. The Council of War assembled at the breaking of the day and unanimously resolved to go in search of the Indians to the mountain where the above mentioned female had been a prisoner, and to take the captured Squaw along. "Whereupon Lieutenant Couwenhoven and Lieutenant Stilwil-and Ensign Niessen were detached with 140 men, and remained: in the fort with about 29 men. The above named troops then set forth towards the mountain and arrived where the Indians had been ;

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they had left that place also. The captured Squaw being asked if she did not know where the Indians had fled to, said they were on a great, high mountain, which she pointed out to them, distant about 2 miles, whither they had fled with the seven prisoners they had with them ; whereupon the officers resolved to go to the other mountain in search of them, which they afterwards"did with their troops, after experiencing vast difficulty, but found no Indians there. The Squaw being again questioned whether she did not know where they were? said they had moved to another mountain, which she pointed out, about 4 miles from there, but there was no path thither.