[211] See ch. 2.
[212] Dele “lands or.”
[213] This word means liquor, and is also used in the sense of a medicinal draught, or other compound potion.
[214] [Shingask, which signifies boggy or marshy ground overgrown with grass, a brother of Tamaqua, or King Beaver, ranked first among Indian warriors in the times of the so-called French and Indian war. The frontiers of Pennsylvania suffering severely from the forays of this Delaware and his braves, Governor Denny, in 1756, set a price of £200 upon his head or scalp. Mr. Heckewelder, in a “Collection of the Names of Chieftains and Eminent Men of the Delaware Nation” states that Shingask, although an implacable foe in battle, was never known to treat a prisoner with cruelty. “One day,” he goes on to say, “in the summer of 1762, while passing with him near by where two prisoners of his—boys of about twelve years of age—were amusing themselves with his own boys, as the chief observed that my attention was arrested by them, he asked me at what I was looking. Telling him in reply that I was looking at his prisoners, he said, ‘When I first took them, they were such; but now they and my children eat their food from the same bowl or dish;’ which was equivalent to saying that they were in all respects on an equal footing with his own children, or alike dear to him.”]
[215] A kind of round buckle with a tongue, which the Indians fasten to their shirts. The traders call them broaches. They are placed in rows, at the distance of about the breadth of a finger one from the other.
[216] The same whom I have spoken of above, page 184, No. 4.
[217] For “Albany” read “Pittsburg.”
[218] See ch. 15, p. 151.
[219] The Indian name of Capt. White Eyes.
[220] Page 188.