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Updated: May 4, 2025
I shall not tell all the horrors of that march, the pangs of hunger that we suffered, the greed for food, the sights that I saw, nor what men did in their despair. Some things had better remain unwritten. At last we arrived at the Ammonusuc River, where our provisions were to meet us, and found nothing.
He heard our guns, but thought that they were fired by Indians, and kept on his way down the river. Our condition was terrible. We had been stumbling along, feeble, gaunt, half crazed by hunger and fatigue. But the expectation of food, the certainty that we should find plenty at the Ammonusuc, had nerved us up to the effort to reach it, and now it was gone. It had been there and was gone.
Twelve days after you arrived, Rogers came down with those who were at the Ammonusuc. Some were insane, and some had died before he reached them. It was good to see them back again. But they were terribly wasted and worn. After they had been here a few days, they started for Crown Point, over the road which Captain Stark has just cut through the woods."
In eight days we reached Lake Memphremagog. The corn was giving out, and Rogers separated us into small parties, each with a guide who had been up the Connecticut River. He told the different parties to keep away from one another, that they might the more readily find sufficient game to support them, and to meet at the Coos Intervale land at the mouth of the Ammonusuc River.
I sent word to Amherst to have plenty of provisions for us at the mouth of the Ammonusuc River, and we can get there all right." We released all our prisoners but a couple of boys, and started off, taking with us six Englishmen whom we found in captivity. Edmund said: "I'm glad to leave this place. It's too much like a slaughter-house. Orders are orders, and we have to execute them. But faith!
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