Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... ALLAN'S JOURNAL. This journal is contained in a small bound memorandum book, in size adapted to the pocket, and, although but a fractional part of it is in the handwriting of Col. Allan,1 it properly bears his name, as it is the official daily record as briefly as possible of the doings while on the cxpepedition to the St John river, the experiences there, and on the return, as well as the operations at Machias for several months afterwards, embracing a period of about eight months. The book itself bears internal evidence of hard experiences in its discolored and faded appearance, and the writing shows that it may have often been done in storms by day and over a straggling fire light in the encampment at night It contains no record of the numbers who accompanied them through the great wilderness, but several years after Col. Allan stated they numbered in all about five hundred. Probably most of them were Indians, and a large majority were women and children. Let us follow this exodus from their own territory to where they would be under the supervision of their Moses, and free from the allurements and promises of the British agents, who were endeavoring to instigate them to join their side and fall upon the feeble settlements, and destroy or drive off their inhabitants. On the 18th of July, they left the St John just below privations incident to removal over these hard roads of a large number of women and children, with all the property of the tribe, we can have but a faint idea. It must have tried the patience of Col. Allan in the extreme, as it will be seen by the journal they often did not move five miles 1 a day, which distance is counted a day's journey for Indians. It must have been tiresome to the whites, but the Indians 'are...
