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EXPLANATION
OF THE
INDIAN GAZETTE,
GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THEIR EXPEDITIONS.
The following divisions explain those on the plate referred to by the numbers.
| 1. Each of these figures represents the number ten. They all signify, that 18 times 10, or 180 American Indians took up the hatchet, or declared war, in favor of the French; which is represented by the hatchet placed over the arms of France. |
2. They departed from Montreal —represented by the bird, just taking wing from the top of a mountain. The moon, and the buck, show the time to have been in the first quarter of the buckmoon, answering to July. |
| 3. They went by water—signified by the canoe. The number of huts, such as they raise to pass the night in, shows they were 21 days on their passage. |
4. Then they came on shore, and traveled seven days by land—represented by the foot, and the seven huts. |
| 5. When they arrived near the habitations of their enemies, at sunrise —shewn by the sun being to the eastward of them, beginning, as they think, its daily course; there they lay in wait three days—represented by the hand pointing and the three huts. |
6. After which, they surprised their enemies, in number 12 times 10, or 120. The man asleep shows how they surprised them, and the hole in the top of the building is supposed to signify that they broke into some of their habitations in that manner. |
| 7. They killed with the club eleven of their enemies, and took five prisoners—the former represented by the club, and the eleven heads; the latter by the figures on the little pedestals. |
8. They lost nine of their own men in the action—represented by the nine heads within the bow, which is the emblem of honor among the Americans; but had none taken prisoners—a circumstance they lay great weight on, shown by all the pedestals being empty. |
| 9. The heads of the arrows, pointing opposite ways, represent the battle. |
10. The heads of the arrows, all pointing the same way, signify the flight of the enemy. |
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