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114 1759 "a deserted cabin to sleep there for the night. Early in the morning the whites were posted around the house, and so placed behind a fodder stack, and some small outhouses, as to be ready to shoot both at the top of the chimney, and the door; and they had begun to throw fire upon the roof the house. One of the Indians within observed to his comrades, that it was better for one to die than that all should; and that if they would follow his directions, he would save all of the company but himself. He ordered them to stand ready, and to issue through the door, as soon as he should have extracted the fire of the assailants, and then to go off as fast as they could. They agreed to obey his commands. He issued through the door, and skipped hither and thither, from one place to another till all the whites had fired upon him. He fell and expired. His companions in arms, before the guns of the whites could be again charged, rushed through the space between them, and escaped unhurt. How greatly is it to be regretted that the name of this hero is not known to the writer, that it might be recorded.