Bowman corroborates Hamilton, saying: "We sent a party to intercept them, but missed them.

However, we took one of their men, ...

the rest making their escape under the cover of the night into the fort." Bowman's journal is for this siege much more trustworthy than Clark's "Memoir." In the latter, Clark makes not a few direct misstatements, and many details are colored so as to give them an altered aspect.

As an instance of the different ways in which he told an event at the time, and thirty years later, take the following accounts of the same incident.

The first is from the letter to Henry (State Department MSS.), the second from the "Memoir." I."A few days ago I received certain intelligence of Wm.
Moires my express to you being killed near the Falls of Ohio, news truly disagreeable to me, as I fear many of my letters will fall into the hands of the enemy at Detroit." 2.