their hands, rivetted my affection for them so strongly that I am
constrained to believe that I loved them as I should have loved my own
sister had she lived, and I had been brought up with her.

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CHAPTER V.


Indians march to Niagara to fight the British.--Return with two Prisoners,
&c.--Sacrifice them at Fall-Brook.--Her Indian Mother's Address to her
Daughter.--Death of her Husband.--Bounty offered for the Prisoners taken
in the last war.--John Van Sice attempts to take her to procure her
Ransom.--Her Escape.--Edict of the Chiefs.--Old King of the tribe
determines to have her given up.--Her brother threatens her Life.--Her
narrow Escape.--The old King goes off.--Her brother is informed of the
place of her concealment, and conducts her home.--Marriage to her second
Husband.--Names of her Children.

When we arrived at Genishau, the Indians of that tribe were making active
preparations for joining the French, in order to assist them in retaking
Fort Ne-a-gaw (as Fort Niagara was called in the Seneca language) from the
British, who had taken it from the French in the month preceding. They
marched off the next day after our arrival, painted and accoutred in all
the habiliments of Indian warfare, determined on death or victory; and
joined the army in season to assist in accomplishing a plan that had been
previously concerted for the destruction of a part of the British army.
The British feeling themselves secure in the possession of Fort Neagaw,