Heckewelder had expected to find the same condition of affairs as existed in the Village of Peace; but he was bewildered by the great array of hostile Indians.

Chiefs who had once extended friendly hands to him, now drew back coldly, as they said: "Washington is dead.

The American armies are cut to pieces.

The few thousands who had escaped the British are collecting at Fort Pitt to steal the Indian's land." Heckewelder vigorously denied all these assertions, knowing they had been invented by Girty and Elliott.

He exhausted all his skill and patience in the vain endeavor to show Pipe where he was wrong.