All relate facts of undoubted authenticity and wildly improbable tales, resting solely on tradition, with exactly the same faith.

The chronological order of these anecdotes being unimportant, I have grouped them here.

It must always be remembered that both the men and the incidents described are interesting chiefly as examples; the old annalists give many hundreds of such anecdotes, and there must have been thousands more that they did not relate.] In the same year a block-house was attacked while the children were playing outside.

The Indians in their sudden rush killed one settler, wounded four, and actually got inside the house; yet three were killed or disabled, and they were driven out by the despairing fury of the remaining whites, the women fighting together with the men.

Then the savages instantly fled, but they had killed and scalped, or carried off, ten of the children.