Croghan’s Transactions with the Indians previous to Hostilities on the Ohio; [June, 1757] 88 Croghan’s Journal; October 21, 1760-January 7, 1761 100 Croghan’s Journal; May 15-September 26, 1765 126 List of the different Nations and Tribes of Indians in the Northern District of North America, with the number of their fighting men 167 Croghan to Sir William Johnson; November, 1765 170 III INTRODUCTORY NOTE. _The Editor_ 177 TWO JOURNALS OF WESTERN TOURS. _Charles Frederick Post_ 1. From Philadelphia to the Ohio, on a message from the Government of Pennsylvania to the Delaware, Shawnese, and Mingo Indians; July 15-September 22, 1758 185 2. On a message from the Governor of Pennsylvania to the Indians on the Ohio, in the latter part of the same year; October 25, 1758-January 10, 1759 234 IV INTRODUCTORY NOTE. _The Editor_ 295 JOURNAL [OF A TOUR OF THE MAUMEE]; Detroit, September 25, 1764. _Captain Thomas Morris_, of his Majesty’s XVII Regiment of Infantry 301 ILLUSTRATION TO VOLUME I PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN THOMAS MORRIS. _Photographic facsimile of steel plate in original edition of “Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.”_ Frontispiece. PREFACE TO VOLUME I In planning for this series of reprints of Early Western Travels, we were confronted by an embarrassment of riches. To reissue all of the many excellent works of travel originally published during the formative period of Western settlement, would obviously be impossible. A selection had therefore to be made, both as to period and material. The century commencing with Conrad Weiser’s notable journey to the Western Indians in 1748, set convenient limits to the field in the matter of time. The question of material was much more difficult.