ger made any impression on him.
The hunter's expedient, to ascertain the direction of the air,
occurred to him.--He dipped his finger in water, and, knowing that
evaporation and coolness would be first felt on the side from which
the wind came, he raised it high in the air. It was enough.--Guided by
this unerring indication, and acting on the supposition that the
current of air still flowed from the point from which it had proceeded
at night, he again resumed his flight. After groping in the wilderness
for some time, faint and enfeebled, he sat down to rest his wearied
limbs, and sought their invigoration in refreshing sleep. When he
awoke, fresh dangers encircled him, but he was better prepared to
elude, or encounter them.

At the first dawn of day, his ears were assailed by the tremulous
bleating of the fawn, the hoarse gobbling of the turkey, and the
peculiar sounds of other wild animals. Familiar with the deceptive
artifices, practised to allure game to the hunter, he was quickly
alive to the fact, that they were the imitative cries of savages in
quest of provisions. Sensible of his situation, he became vigilant to
discover the approach of danger, and active in avoiding it. Several
times however, with all his wariness, he found himself within a few
paces of [217] some one of the Indians; but fortunately escaping their
observation, made good his escape, and reached Lexington in safety,
gave there the harrowing intelligence of what had befallen the
inhabitants of Ruddle's and Martin's stations.

The Indians after the escape of Hinkstone, crossed the Ohio river at
the mouth of Licking, and, separating into small parties, proceeded to
their several villages. The Canadian troops descended Licking to the
Ohio, and this river to the mouth of the Great Miami, up which they
ascended as far as it was navigable for their boats, and made their
way thence by land to Detroit.

The Indian army destined to operate against North Western Virginia,
was to enter the country in two divisions of one hundred and fifty
warriors each; the one crossing the Ohio near below Wheeling, the
other, at the mouth of Racoon creek, about sixty miles farther up.
Both were, avoiding the stronger forts, to proceed directly to
Washington, then known as Catfishtown, between which place and the
Ohio, the whole country was to be laid waste.

The division crossing below Wheeling, was soon discovered by scouts,
who giving the alarm, caused most of the inh