their English brethren at Logstown, and entered into a treaty not to molest any English settlers in the territory claimed by the Ohio Company. The Six Natio

the woods and weeds. If the Governor of Virginia wants to speak with us, we wi

on and H

o Indians sent a protest t

able manner, like our brothers, the English, we should have traded with you as we do with them; but that you should come and build houses on our land, and take it b

ishly. I am not afraid of flies and mosquitoes, for such are t

he coast east of the Alleghanies. This meant the ruin of the Ohio Company. A strong appeal was made to Governor Dinwiddie of Vi

tile Indians, and breaking to pieces their confidence in their English brothers. Captain Trent was the man selected for this dangerous and deli

o restore the lost confidence of the Indians and to impress the French with the determination and power of the English. There was onl

little can be done toward telling any part of it without telling enough to make a book. The journey contained all the perils of such a wilderness, the usual intrigues characteristic of the times in the dealing with the Indians, and the customary experience of frontier diplomacy between

ardship and peril, where his life many times appeared hopeless, but he won out and performed his mission. It is probable that nothing throughout his wonderful career was more trying to his character or more evidence of his indomit