INTERESTING DESPATCH

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21231, 30 September 1940, Page 8

INTERESTING DESPATCH

SOUVENIR OF 7 YEARS’ WAR One of the most interesting relics of the war waged between Britain and France for the possession of Canada is a dispatch captured from a tribe of Indians helping the French, states the Manchester Guardian Weekly. Seared into a strip of birch-bark with a hot iron, it consists of ten pictorial designs, each telling its own story. The first shows what look like eighteen little tops, flanking the heraldic escutcheon of France, surmounted by a hatchet. That meant that ten times eighteen Indians had gone out on the warpath for France. The second shows a bird taking wing from a mountain-top, with, near by, a moon and an antlered deer. That meant that they had departed from Montreal in the first quarter of the buck-moon—July. The third shows a couple of Indians paddling along in a canoe and twenty-one wigwams. That meant that they travelled by water and pitched their tent twenty-one nights. And so on, till the whole story was told.