Excerpt from The General History of the Late War, Vol. 2: Containing It's Rise, Progress, and Event, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America and Exhibiting the State of the Belligerent Powers at the Commencement of the War, Their Interests and Objects in It's Continuation While a party of Englilh fcouters were at Shamokin, news was brought that a party of French and Indians from the borders of the Ohio were alfo arrived in the neighbouring parts, upon which Scaronyade, an Indian chief of the Six Nations, advifed his friends the Englifh to return back, and by all means to keep on the eafiern fide of the river; in con.' fequence of this advice they did indeed return back, but ia fiead of keeping on the call, they kept on the well fide of the river, and before they had gone far they fell in with the French party, who killed four Of them, and the red efcaped. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.