[9] The reference here is to the defeat and retreat of Major Arthur Loftus, who left Pensacola early in February, 1764, with a detachment of the 22nd infantry to proceed to the Illinois, and take possession for the English. On the nineteenth of March he was ambushed and fired upon near Tunica Bend on the Mississippi, and obliged to retreat to New Orleans.—ED. [10] The Miamis were of Algonquian stock; but the early French writers noted their peculiarities and special customs. See _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, xvi, p. 376; also index thereto.—ED. [11] The Northern tribes, especially the Iroquois, termed the Cherokees, Chickasaws, etc., “Têtes plattes” (Flat-heads). The enmity between the Northern and the Southern Indians was traditional.—ED. [12] A letter to Bradstreet from Morris, dated September 2, 1764, is quoted by Wallace, _History of Illinois and Louisiana under French Rule_ (Cincinnati, 1893), p. 352, _note_.—ED. [13] Reference to the date of starting (_ante_, p. 303) shows that this should read September 1.—ED. [14] On the influence of dreams over the actions of Indians, see Long’s _Travels_, vol. ii of this series.—ED. [15] The journey of Sir William Johnson to Detroit, here referred to, took place July 4-October 30, 1761. For the diary of this voyage, see Stone, _Life and Times of Sir William Johnson_, ii, pp. 429-477.—ED. [16] Pichou is the Canadian name for the loup-cervier, or _lynx canadensis_.—ED. [17] Holmes had warned Gladwin of the conspiracy among the Indians; nevertheless, he himself fell a victim thereto. See Parkman, _Conspiracy of Pontiac_, i, pp. 189, 278.—ED. [18] Sir Henry Moore was the only colonist appointed governor of New York, having been born in Jamaica in 1713. After serving as governor of that island, and by his bravery and wisdom averting serious peril during a slave insurrection, he was rewarded with a baronetcy and the governorship of New York (1764). He filled this position with acceptability, dying at his post in 1769.—ED. [19] For these forts, see Croghan’s _Journals_, _ante_.—ED. [20] One of the earliest Jesuit missions in Canada was to the Hurons, for whom (1673) a village was built at Loretto, ten miles from Quebec, on a seigniory belonging to the Jesuit order. Remnants of the Loretto Hurons are still to be found at the old village. The French had employed these “praying Indians” in their wars; it will be seen that the English were following the same policy.—ED. [21] See Croghan’s _Journals_, _ante_, for note upon the location of this Potawatomi village.—ED.