another. Here we received, by Indians from Diahogo,[1] the disagreeable news that our army was, as they said, entirely cut off at Ticonderoga,[2] which discouraged one of my companions, Lappopetung's son, so much, that he would proceed no further. Shamokin Daniel here asked me, if I thought he should be satisfied for his trouble in going with me. I told him every body, that did any service for the province, I thought, would be paid.
27th.—They furnished us here with every necessary for our journey, and we set out with good courage. After we rode about ten miles, we were caught in a hard gust of rain.
28th.—We came to Wekeeponall, where the road turns off for Wyoming, and slept this night at Queenashawakee.[3]
29th.—We crossed the Susquahanna over the Big Island. My companions were now very fearful, and this night went a great way out of the road, to sleep without fire, but could not sleep for the musquetoes and vermin.
30th & 31st.—We were glad it was day, that we might set out. We got upon the mountains, and had heavy rains all night. The heavens alone were our covering, and we accepted of all that was poured down from thence.
August 1st.—We saw three hoops[4] on a bush; to one
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- ↑ An Indian settlement towards the heads of Susquahanna.—[C. T.?]
- ↑ The reference is to Abercrombie's defeat and retreat from Fort Ticonderoga in July, 1758.—Ed.
- ↑ The Indian trail followed by Post, passed up the West Branch of the Susquehanna, through a region which had earlier been thickly sprinkled with Indian towns. The Moravian missionaries had been here as early as 1742, and had been hospitably received by Madame Montour, whose town was at the mouth of Loyalsock Creek, opposite the present village of Montoursville. This was probably Post's "Wekeponall," as the path to Wyoming led northeast from this place. Queenashawakee (Quenslehague) Creek is in Lycoming County, with the town of Linden at its mouth.—Ed.
- ↑ Little hoops on which the Indians ftretch and drefs the raw scalps.—[C. T.?]
