17th. Our men took up a stray canoe on the river. It contained a pair of shoes, two axes and some corn. We suppose the owners were killed by the Indians. Same day Lieutenant Kingsbury returned with only a supply of food for six or seven days. 18th. Captain Strong’s company began to build their range of barracks, to make ourselves comfortable for the winter. 19th. This day buried the fifer to Captain Hart’s company. Our funerals are conducted in the following manner: The men are all paraded without arms, and march by files in the rear of the corpse. The guard, with arms, march in front, with their pieces reversed; and the music in the rear of the guard, just in front of the coffin, playing some mournful tune. After the dead is buried they return in the same order, playing some lively march. 21st. A boat arrived from Fort Pit with intelligence of a drove of cattle at Wheeling for this garrison. 22nd. Lieutenant Pratt, with a party of men, went up by land to bring down the cattle. 23rd. Colonel Harmar arrived at the garrison. The troops paraded to receive him and fired a salute of nine guns. 26th. Captain Hart went with a party of men to guard the Indians of the Muskingum. 27th. Lieutenant Pratt arrived with ten head of cattle, which revived our spirits, as we had been without provisions for several days. 29th. Three hunters came into the fort and informed us that they had seen a party of Indians lying in the woods. We sent out some men, but discovered nothing. August 2nd. Our garrison was alarmed. Captain Hart was walking on the bank of the river, and said he saw Indians on the other side of the Ohio, and saw them shoot one of the men who was out hunting, and beheld him fall. Colonel Harmar immediately sent the captain with a party of men after them. They crossed the river and found one man asleep on the ground, and another had been shooting at a mark. They had seen no Indians. 11th. Captain Hart’s company were ordered to encamp in the open ground outside of the fort, as the men are very sickly in the barracks. 23rd. Captain Hart and his company embarked for Wheeling with orders to escort and protect the surveyors in the seven ranges. September 1st. Captain Tunis, the Indian, came to the fort and reported the Indians designed to attack our garrison, and that they were bent on mischief. We were all hands employed in making preparations to receive them, lining the bastions, clearing away all the weeds and brush within a hundred yards of the fort. We likewise cut up all our corn and broke down the bean poles, to prevent their having any shelter within rifle shot distance. 6th. Captain Tunis left the garrison to return to his nation and bring us further information. 7th. The troops received orders to parade at the alarm post at daybreak, and continue under arms until after sunrise.