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BEP(F.764.040
19 Nov 1764:22 (1524)
Extract of a letter from the camp, near the carrying place,
Sandusky Lake [Ohio], October 5. 1764.
I hoped before now to have been on our passage towards
home, agreeable to what I wrote from Detroit.---We are
halted at Sandusky.---We all expected we were come here to
finish the peace with the Shawanese and Delawares, which our
Colonel had begun at 'Lance aux Fuilles;. . . 3/5ths col.,
11 lines up from bottom of entry:] Our new acquired subjects
the Ottawas, Chepawas, and Hurons, are gone against the
Shawanese, &c. with a bloody belt, they last night took up
the hatchet and sung the war song. I here we are to stay
here till November. God forbid! my heart already akes at
the apprehension of snow and ice. I have somewhere read of
the frost being so intense, as to freeze the words coming
out of the people's mouths; should it so happen here, the
air would be full of curses from this lake of Cocytus
[wailing], even to New York. Farewell, &c.
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