. Archaeologia americana : transactions and collections of the American Antiquarian Society. BVfBi $. > 10 >• > -> >- ->• -> > ——■%£> ^ ^ ■ |}> ■ ^* Newspapers. 11 EXPLANATION OF THE INDIAN .GAZETTE, GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THEIR EXPEDITIONS. The following divisions explain those on the plate referred to by the numbers. 1. Each of these figures representsthe number ten. They all signify,that 18 times 10, or 180 AmericanIndians took up the hatchet, or de-clared war, in favor of the French ;which is represented by the hatchetplaced over the arms of France. 3. Th
. Archaeologia americana : transactions and collections of the American Antiquarian Society. BVfBi $. > 10 >• > -> >- ->• -> > ——■%£> ^ ^ ■ |}> ■ ^* Newspapers. 11 EXPLANATION OF THE INDIAN .GAZETTE, GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THEIR EXPEDITIONS. The following divisions explain those on the plate referred to by the numbers. 1. Each of these figures representsthe number ten. They all signify,that 18 times 10, or 180 AmericanIndians took up the hatchet, or de-clared war, in favor of the French ;which is represented by the hatchetplaced over the arms of France. 3. They went by water—signifiedby the canoe. The number of huts,such as they raise to pass the nightin, shows they were 21 days on theirpassage. 5. When they arrived near thehabitations of their enemies, at sun-rise — shewn by the sun being to theeastward of them, beginning, asthey think, its daily course; therethey lay in wait three days — repre-sented by the hand pointing and thethree huts. 7. They killed with the clubeleven of their enemies, and tookfive prisoners — the forme
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