so, and remained for several weeks at Salem and Gnadenhüt ten, working day and night gathering and husking the weath- cr-bcaten corn, and burying it in holes in the ground in the woods for future snpply. On the very day that they have set off with their packs of eorn, to return to their starv ing friends and relatives at Sandusky, a party of between one and two hundred whites made their appearanee at Gnaden- were to hütten. Seeing the Indians scattered all through the corn- fields, they rode np to them, expressing pleasnre at seeing them, and saying that they would take them into Peunsyl vania, to a place where they would be ont of all rcach of per scention from the hostile savages or the English. sented themselves as "friends and brothers, who had purposc- ly come out to relieve thom from the distress brought on account of their being friends to the American people. The Christian Indians, not in the least doubting their They repre- on them sincerity, walked np to them and thanked them for being kind; while the whites again gave assurances that they would mcet with good treatment from them. They then advised them to diseontinue their work and cross over to the town, in so order to make necessary arrangements for the journey, as they intendcd to take tliem out of the reach of their encmies, and where they would be supplied abundantly with all they stood in need of."

They proposed to take them to Pittsburg, where they would be out of the way of any assault made by the English or the savages. This the Indians beard, one of their mission aries writes, "with resignation, concluding that God would perhaps choose this method to put an end to their sufferings Prepossessed with this idea, they eheerfally deliverod their guns, hatchets, and other weapons to the murderers, who prom- ised to take good care of them, and in Pittsburg to return every article to its rightful them all those things which they had secreted in the woods, Our Indians even showed Owner