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After visiting a deposit of mammoth bones on the south shore, long the wonder of the traders, he turned eastward, crossed with toil and difficulty the mountains about the sources of the Kenawha, and after an absence of seven months reached his frontier home on the Yadkin, whence he proceeded to Roanoke with the report of his journey. Mr. Croghan's Transactions with the Indians in N.Y. Col.
* The suspicion that Croghan and Lord Dunmore, the Governor of Virginia, were instigating the war appears to have arisen out of the conduct of Dr. John Connolly, Dunmore's agent and Croghan's nephew. Croghan had induced the Shawanoes to bring under escort to Fort Pitt certain English traders resident in the Indian towns.
Nobody spoke about his absence, for shells began to fall around us. The British and Indians were in sight; and General Proctor sent a flag of truce demanding surrender. Major Croghan's ensign approached the messenger with a flag in reply. The women gathered their children as chickens under shelter.
I took the girl there to rest while I patched our moccasins. The Indians said this structure was so ancient that no one knew who built it. As a matter of fact it was the remains of George Croghan's stone trading-house. Traces of an Indian town, antedating the fort, were also to be observed.
By the flash of the re-loaded six-pounder, we saw the trench filled with dead and wounded. The besiegers turned. Croghan's sweating gunners swabbed and loaded and fired, roaring like lions. The Indians, of whom there were nearly a thousand, were not in the charge, and when retreat began they went in panic.
Is not your very soul down on its worthy marrow-bones before this girl?" "Is not every gallant gentleman who comes to Croghan's at the feet of Miss de Contrecoeur?" "One or two are in the neighbourhood of my feet," she remarked. "Aye, and too near to please me," said I. "Who, for example?" "Boyd for example," I replied, giving her a hearty scowl. "Oh!" she drawled airily.
Then she said: "I did not understand at first how much I wished for everything you offered. Only when I saw the ladies at Croghan's house, as I was coming with my mending from the fort then I knew I wanted everything you have bespoken for me.... Everything, dear lad! Oh, you don't know how truly grateful I shall be. No, you don't, Euan!
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