ees were now
greatly alarmed and angered, and Dunmore himself, accompanied
by the Delaware chief White Eyes, a trader, John Gibson, and
fifty volunteers, rode over in hot haste that evening to stop
Lewis, and reprimand him. His lordship was mollified by Lewis's
explanations, but the latter's men, and indeed Dunmore's, were
furious over being stopped when within sight of their hated
quarry, and tradition has it that it was necessary to
treble the guards during the night to prevent Dunmore and White
Eyes from being killed. The following morning (the 25th), his
lordship met and courteously thanked Lewis's officers for
their valiant service; but said that now the Shawnees had
acceded to his wishes, the further presence of the southern
division might engender bad blood. Thus dismissed, Lewis led
his army back to Point Pleasant, which was reached on the
28th. He left there a garrison of fifty men under Captain
Russell, and then by companies the volunteers marched
through the wilderness to their respective homes, where they
disbanded early in November.--R. G. T.

[22] This is not the view of students in our own day, coolly
looking at the affair from the distance of a hundred and twenty
years. There now seems no room to doubt that Dunmore was
thoroughly in earnest, that he prosecuted the war with vigor,
and knew when to stop in order to secure the best possible
terms. Our author wrote at a time when many heroes of Point
Pleasant were still alive, and his neighbors; he reflected
their views, and the passions of the day. That it was, in view
of the events then transpiring, the best policy to turn back
the southern army, after the great battle, and not insist too
closely on following up the advantage gained, seems now
incontrovertible.--R. G. T.

[23] Butterfield's _History of the Girtys_ (Cincinnati,
1890) is a valuable contribution to Western history. Simon,
James, and George Girty were notorious renegade whites, who
aided the Indians against the borderers from 1778 to 1783;
Simon and George were similarly active in the Indian war of
1790-95.--R. G. T.

[24] Upon leaving Pittsburg,--where the governor held a
council with several Delaware and Mingo chiefs, to whom he
reci