His trading establishment was a low-built log structure eighty feet long by twenty wide.

He owned thirty slaves--twenty men and ten women.

He seems to have treated them kindly; at any rate, they loyally did his will.

Baby agreed to get provisions into the fort by stealth; and on a dark night, about a week after the siege commenced, Gladwyn had a lantern displayed on a plank fixed at the water's edge.

Baby had six canoes in readiness; in each were stowed two quarters of beef, three hogs, and six bags of meal.