16th.--Friday. Cold and clouday. A Surgeon came on bord. A Mister (minister) of the Church of England came on board and baptised Ingalls. 17th.--Saterday. Clouday. We have five sick men from No. 406. Discharged two, one from 35, and one sent to 35. Two women sent to 71. Pluck buried this forenoon. 18th.--Sunday. Clouday. I received hospital bedding and cloths (clothes) the men in genl. better except Ingals. 19th.--Monday. Pleasant. Amos Ingals died at 5 o'clock this morning. 6 men came from 406 and 4 returned. The men verry sick many of them, 44 in our number of sick. I had a reprimand from one of the B. (British) Os. (Officers). 20th.--Tuesday. Pleasant. Ingals buried. I gave the men some cloths (clothes) and they appear better generally. 21st.--Wensday. Pleasant. Nothing particular happened through the day. The Surgeon did not visit us. 22nd.--Thursday. Pleasant and cold. Dennis Hagerman died at 2 o'clock this morning. The Surgeon came on bord at 10 o'clock. We rec'd five sick men--none discharged. 23rd.--Friday. Clouday. We this day herd that we were destined for Boston--the men very much revived. 24th.--Saturday. Clouday. The Surgeon came on bord, and Capt. Baker of our service gave me an order to make a minute of what would be necessary for the sick on our passage to Boston. 25th.--Sunday. Clouday. I and the sick were ordered on bord the 406. The men paid----_Here the diary abruptly ends._ * * * * * _The "Quebec Mercury" of 29th Oct. 1812 contains the following:_ _"The prisoners taken at Detroit and brought down to Quebec are on the point of embarking for Boston for the purpose of being exchanged. Five cannon are now lying in the Chateau Court taken at Detroit."_ FOOTNOTES: [1] _Cuyahoga. Cayahogo according to Kingsford._ [2] _Maumee or Miami River of the Lakes to distinguish it from two others of the same name._ [3] _Maumee Bay where Toledo now stands._ [4] _Lossing says that Reynolds and his party of sick sailed from the Maumee in an accompanying sloop and that the latter reached Detroit in safety. This is evidently a mistake. The sloop, or as Reynolds calls it schooner was also captured and it was this schooner that contained the stores._ [5] _News of the declaration of war had been received by Col. St. George in command at Fort Malden as early as June 30th, 1812._ [6] _This schooner contained Gen. Hull's despatch box and a great quantity of stores for his army. The despatches put the English in possession of valuable information as to Hull's forces, etc._ [7] _Amherstburg near which stood Fort Malden._ [8] _On the morning of the 6th Col. Cass was sent to Malden with a flag of truce to demand the baggage and prisoners taken from the schooner. The demand was unheeded and he returned to camp with Capt. Burbanks of the British Army._ M'AFEE.