[56] In this speech the _Indians_ carefully guard the honour of their nation, by frequently intimating, that the peace is _sought by the English: you have talked of peace: you are sorry for the war: you have digged up the peace, that was buried_, &c. Then they declare their readiness to grant peace, if the English agree to its being general for all the colonies. The _Indian_ word, that is translated, be strong, so often repeated, is an expression they use to spirit up persons, who have undertaken some difficult task, as to lift, or move, a great weight, or execute a difficult enterprise; nearly equivalent to our word, _courage! courage!_—[C. T.?] [57] The three tribes of the Delaware nation—the Unamis, Unalachtgo, and Minsi—were designated by the totems turtle, turkey, and wolf. The chief of the first of these was the head chief of the nation, being chosen and installed with great ceremony and rejoicing. See Heckewelder, _Indian Nations_, pp. 51, 53.—ED. [58] Meaning General Forbes’s army.—[C. T.?] [59] _i. e._ Just ready to enter our country.—[C. T.?] [60] Two of the prisoners mention their pleasure at seeing Post, and the fact that the Indians forbade them to communicate with him. See “Narrative of Marie le Roy and Barbara Leininger,” _Pennsylvania Archives_, 2nd series (Harrisburg, 1878), vii, pp. 401-412.—ED. [61] He was sent to collect the _Indians_ together, to attack General Forbes’s army, once more, on their march.—[C. T.?] [62] The creek, here called “Antigoc” was probably Venango or the French Creek, which the Delawares designated as Attigé.—ED. [63] The Indian name of this town, in Jefferson County, on the Mahoning Creek, is usually given as Punxatawny.—ED. [64] Probably this was the town called “Calamaweshink” or “Chinklemoose,” Clearfield.—ED. [65] The proprietors of Pennsylvania chose William Denny lieutenant-governor (1756), because they wished a “military man with a ready pen.” He had been captain in the British army, and his experience in Pennsylvania gave opportunity for military talents. But bound by instructions from his principals, and hampered by the hostility of the provincial assembly, he made no headway in his government. Accused of accepting bribes to betray the proprietors’ interests, he was removed in October, 1759. Returning to England, he was given a high position in the army, and died about 1766.—ED. [66] Captain Bull and Lieutenant Hays were militia officers, the latter of Northampton County, where was an Irish settlement between Bethlehem and Fort Allen, known as “Hays’s.” Captain John Bull commanded at Fort Allen in the summer of 1758. They both volunteered to undertake this hazardous mission of a visit to the Ohio Indians. For the instructions given them, see _Pennsylvania Archives_, iii, p. 556.—ED.