Young folks' history of the United States . THE FRENCH AND INDAN WARS. [49 only did the French claim all this; but they kept busily at work in the interior of the country, establishing trading-posts, building forts, making boats on the lakes, and collecting the materials of war. They would* not let the English make so much as a survey of land in the valley of the Ohio. So it was resolved to send a washing- messenger to remonstrate with the French officers and t^r,^^ ^^^. WASHINflTON AMID THE ICE OF THE ALLEGHANY. agents; and George Washington, then a young man oltwenty-one, was appointed by th
Young folks' history of the United States . THE FRENCH AND INDAN WARS. [49 only did the French claim all this; but they kept busily at work in the interior of the country, establishing trading-posts, building forts, making boats on the lakes, and collecting the materials of war. They would* not let the English make so much as a survey of land in the valley of the Ohio. So it was resolved to send a washing- messenger to remonstrate with the French officers and t^r,^^ ^^^. WASHINflTON AMID THE ICE OF THE ALLEGHANY. agents; and George Washington, then a young man oltwenty-one, was appointed by the Governor of Virginiafor that purpose. This w^as in October, 1753. Washington had to travel through an almost un-broken forest, and to meet many perils; and he accom-plished nothing by his appeals. His return was in thedead of winter, and harder and more perilous than his !50 YOUNG folks UNITED STATES. journey westward. Much of the journey was throughforests which no white man had ever explored; and hehad to pass over rivers on the ice, or else, amidst floatingice, on hastily constructed rafts. As he crossed the Alle-ghany River in this way, his raft was entirely hemmed inby the ice, his setting-pole was whirled from his handby the swift current, and he himself was thrown into thewater. Finally he and his companion left the raft, andtook refuge on an island in the river, where they stayedtill daylight, soaked with water, and almost frozen. Inthe morning they suc
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