At night he wriggled out of his bonds and slew four of his sleeping captors, while the fifth, who escaped, was so bewildered that, on reaching the Indian town, he reported that his party had been attacked at night by a number of whites, who had not only killed his companions but the prisoner likewise.
A still more remarkable event had occurred a couple of summers previously.

Some keel boats, manned by a hundred men under Lieutenant Rogers, and carrying arms and provisions procured from the Spaniards at New Orleans, were set upon by an Indian war party under Girty and Elliott, [Footnote: Haldimand MSS.

De Peyster to Haldimand, November 1, 1779.] while drawn up on a sand beach of the Ohio.

The boats were captured and plundered, and most of the men were killed; several escaped, two under very extraordinary circumstances.

One had both his arms, the other both his legs, broken.