forty whites and some Indians who were left in the rear to procure provisions.  These were attacked and the greater number of them killed or taken, upon which the main body fled with such rapidity that the pursuit proved ineffectual.  In the party at Canada creek was Major Walter Butler, the person who perpetrated the massacre at Cherry-valley.  His entreaties for quarter were disregarded, and he fell the victim of that vengeance which his own savage temper had directed against himself.

END OF VOLUME III.