So great was their terror that it was found impossible to persuade them to make any inroad as long as they deemed themselves menaced by a counter attack of the Kentuckians.

[Footnote: Haldimand MSS.

De Peyster to Haldimand, Nov.

20, 1779.] Occasional Indian Forays.
It is true that bands of Mingos, Hurons, Delawares, and Shawnees made occasional successful raids against the frontier, and brought their scalps and prisoners in triumph to Detroit, [Footnote: Haldimand MSS.

De Peyster to Haldimand, Oct.