including the bill from their late lodgings (for which I was arrested, and put to a considerable expence) and the time they had lived with me, I had expended near seventy pounds, which I must enevitably lose, as Lord H—— has absolutely refused to reimburse me. About the beginning of March 1765, by the desire of Mr. Montague, I accompanied the Indians on board the Madeira packet, in which they returned to their own country, leaving me immersed in debts not my own, and plunged into difficulties thro’ my zeal to serve both them and my country, from which the selling of twenty pounds a year out of my commission has rather allayed than extricated me. The Indians expressed the highest gratitude and grief for my misfortunes; all the recompence they could offer, was an asylum in their country, which I declined; since their murmurs, and some unguarded expressions they dropt, convinced me they would not fail at their return to spirit up their countrymen, to vindicate their right by force of arms, which would infallibly again have been laid to my charge, and I perhaps be reputed a traitor to my country. My circumstances, however, are now so much on the decline, that when I can satisfy my creditors, I must retire to the Cherokee, or some other hospitable country, where unobserved I and my wife may breathe upon the little that yet remains. FINIS. [Illustration: _A Curious secret Journal taken by the INDIANS out of the Pocket of a FRENCH OFFICER they had kill’d._ ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. P. vi, changed “added whatever I thought curious and taining” to “added whatever I thought curious and entertaining”. 2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 3. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 4. Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the paragraph. 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 6. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.