February and March. In the January assault, Girty's band
ambushed Capt. John Clark, a sergeant, and fourteen men,
returning to Fort Pitt from convoying provisions to Fort
Laurens. Two whites were killed, four wounded, and one taken
prisoner. In February, came an attacking party of a hundred
and twenty Indians (mostly Wyandots and Mingoes), led by
Capt. Henry Bird, of the Eighth (or King's) Regiment; with
him were Simon Girty and ten soldiers. The enemy arrived
February 22, but remained in hiding. The next day Gibson sent
out a guard of eighteen men, despite warnings of the enemy's
presence, to assist the wagoner in collecting the horses of
the fort. All the party were killed and scalped, within
sight of the fort, save two, who were made prisoners. The fort
was then openly invested until March 20, when the besiegers
withdrew, torn with dissensions and short of supplies. See
Butterfield's _Washington-Irvine Correspondence_ for further
details.--R. G. T.

[8] Not to be confounded with George Rogers Clark, of
Kentucky.--R. G. T.

[9] The bodies of these men were found to have been much
devoured by the wolves, and bearing the appearance of having
been recently torn by them. With a view of taking revenge on
these animals for devouring their companions, the fatigue party
sent to bury their remains, after digging a grave sufficiently
capacious to contain all, and having deposited them in it, they
covered the pit with slender sticks, bark and rotten wood, too
weak to bear the weight of a wolf, and placed a piece of meat
on the top and near the center of this covering, as a bait. In
the morning seven wolves were found in the pit, and killed and
the grave then filled up.

[10] Boone had left Boonesborough January 8, in charge of
thirty men, to make salt at the Lower Blue Licks, on
Licking River. They carried with them, on horses, several
large boiling pans, given to the settlement by the government
of Virginia. So weak was the water there, that 840 gallons
were necessary to make a bushel of salt, against ninety at the
Kanawha salines, and forty at Onondaga. While the salt-makers
were at work, two or three others of the party served as
scouts and hunters; generally, Boone