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The savages now learned the superiority of the Long Knife, as they call the
Virginians, by experience; being out-generalled in almost every battle. Our
affairs began to wear a new aspect, and the enemy, not daring to venture on open
war, practised secret mischief at times.
On the first day of January, 1778, I went with a party of thirty men to the Blue
Licks, on Licking River, to make salt for the different garrisons in the
country.
On the seventh day of February, as I was hunting, to procure meat for the
company, I met with a party of one hundred and two Indians, and two Frenchmen,
on their march against Boonsborough, that place being particularly the object of
the enemy.
They pursued, and took me; and brought me on the eighth day to the Licks, where
twenty-seven of my party were, three of them having previously returned home
with the salt. I knowing it was impossible for them to escape, capitulated with
the enemy, and, at a distance in their view, gave notice to my men of their
situation, with orders not to resist, but surrender themselves captives.
Adventure 11
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