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+<title>The Indian: On the Battle-field and in The Wigwam., by John Frost</title>
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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 45385 ***</div>
+
+    <div style="height: 8em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h1>
+      THE INDIAN: <br /><br /> ON THE BATTLE-FIELD AND IN THE WIGWAM.
+    </h1>
+    <h2>
+      By John Frost
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h5>
+      Wentworth &amp; Company,
+    </h5>
+    <h4>
+      1857
+    </h4>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0006m.jpg" alt="0006m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0006.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0007m.jpg" alt="0007m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0007.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0001" id="linkimage-0001"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:40%;">
+      <img src="images/0011m.jpg" alt="0011m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0011.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <b>CONTENTS</b>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_PREF"> PREFACE. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0002"> STORIES OF THE INDIANS. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0003"> INDIAN GRATITUDE. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0004"> INDIAN FRIENDSHIP. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0005"> THE CAPTIVE SISTER. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0006"> PARENTAL AFFECTION. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0007"> THE FRIENDLY MANOEUVRE. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0008"> GRAND-SUN. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0009"> TECUMSEH AND THE PROPHET. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0010"> THE DESTRUCTION OF MONTREAL. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0011"> A BUFFALO HUNT. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0012"> TREATMENT OF INDIAN CHILDREN. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0013"> MRS. HANSON AND HER CHILDREN </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0014"> THE STORY OF SHON-KA. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0015"> THE DEATH OF CANONCHET. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0016"> CHURCH AND THE NARRAGANSETT. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0017"> THE DEATH OF KING PHILIP. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0018"> THE RAIN MAKERS. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0019"> THE BRIDE&rsquo;S RESCUE. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0020"> YONDEEGA&rsquo;S GRATITUDE. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0021"> THE BURNING OF DEERFIELD. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0022"> THE FIRE-WATER. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0023"> FARMER&rsquo;S BROTHER. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0024"> THE PROPHET OF THE ALLEGHANY. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0025"> PETER OTSAQUETTE. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0026"> PERFIDY PUNISHED. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0027"> ADVENTURE OF GENERAL PUTNAM. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0028"> THE INDIANS OF ST. MARY&rsquo;S. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0029"> RED JACKET. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0030"> THE BATTLE OF SACO POND. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0031"> WINGINA </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0032"> HAROLD DEAN; OR, THE INDIAN&rsquo;S REVENGE. </a>
+    </p>
+    <p class="toc">
+      <a href="#link2H_4_0033"> BIENVILLE&rsquo;S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE CHICKASAWS.
+      </a>
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /> <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_PREF" id="link2H_PREF"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      PREFACE.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      These sketches are drawn from a great variety of sources, and are
+      intended, not only to exhibit the Indian character in all its phases, but
+      to comprise in a small compass a valuable collection of narratives of
+      Indian warfare, embracing views of their peculiar methods of strategy,
+      ambuscades, and surprises&mdash;their treatment of prisoners, and their
+      other characteristic manners and customs.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By the aid of Mr. Croome, and other eminent artists, I have been able to
+      illustrate the volume quite profusely with engravings. I trust that the
+      work will be found a useful as well as interesting contribution to
+      historical literature.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0002" id="linkimage-0002"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/0012m.jpg" alt="0012m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0012.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0003" id="linkimage-0003"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0013m.jpg" alt="0013m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0013.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h1>
+      STORIES OF THE INDIANS.
+    </h1>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      INDIAN GRATITUDE.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0004" id="linkimage-0004"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9015.jpg" alt="9015 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9015.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      OT long after Connecticut began to be settled by the English, a stranger
+      Indian came one day to a tavern in one of its towns in the dusk of the
+      evening, and requested the hostess to supply him with something to eat and
+      drink; at the same time he honestly told her that he could not pay for
+      either, as he had had no success in hunting for several days; but that he
+      would return payment as soon as he should meet with better fortune.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The hostess, who was a very ill-tempered woman, not only flatly refused to
+      relieve him, but added abuse to her unkindness, calling him a lazy,
+      drunken fellow, and told him that she did not work so hard herself, to
+      throw away her earnings upon such vagabonds as he was.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      There was a man sitting in the same room of the tavern, who, on hearing
+      the conversation, looked up, and observing the Indian&rsquo;s countenance, which
+      plainly showed that he was suffering severely from want and fatigue, and
+      being of a humane disposition, he told the woman to give the poor wanderer
+      some supper, and he would pay for it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She did so: and when the Indian had finished his meal, he turned towards
+      his benefactor, thanked him, and told him that he should not forget his
+      kindness. &ldquo;As for the woman,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;all I can give her is a story&mdash;if
+      she likes to hear it.&rdquo; The woman, being now in a rather, better temper,
+      and having some curiosity to hear what he had to tell, readily consented,
+      and the Indian addressed her as follows:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I suppose you read the Bible?&rdquo; The woman assented. &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; continued the
+      Indian, &ldquo;the Bible say, God made the world, and then he took him, and
+      looked on him, and say, &lsquo;It&rsquo;s all very good.&rsquo; Then he made light, and took
+      him, and looked on him, and say, &lsquo;It&rsquo;s all very good.&rsquo; Then he made dry
+      land, and water, and sun, and moon, and grass, and trees, and took him,
+      and say, &lsquo;It&rsquo;s all very good.&rsquo; Then he made beasts, and bird, and fishes,
+      and took him, and looked on him, and say, &lsquo;It&rsquo;s all very good.&rsquo; Then he
+      made man, and took him, and looked on him, and say, &lsquo;It&rsquo;s all very good.&rsquo; 
+      And last of all he made <i>woman</i>, and took him, and looked on: him, <i>and
+      he no dare say one such word.</i>&rdquo; The Indian, having told his story,
+      departed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Some years after, the man who had be friended the Indian had occasion to
+      go some distance into the wilderness between Litchfield and Albany, which
+      is now a populous city, but then contained only a few houses. Here he was
+      taken prisoner by an Indian scout, and carried off into Canada. When he
+      arrived at the principal settlement of their tribe, which was on the banks
+      of the great river St. Lawrence, some of the Indians proposed that he
+      should be put to death, in revenge for the wrongs that they had suffered
+      from the white men; and this probably would have been his fate, had not an
+      old Indian woman, or squaw, as they are called, demanded that he should be
+      given up to her, that she might adopt him in place of her son, whom she
+      had lately lost in war. He was accordingly given to her, and, as it is
+      customary under such circumstances, was thenceforth treated in the same
+      manner as her own son.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the following summer, as he was one day at work in the forest by
+      himself, felling trees, an Indian, who was unknown to him, came; up and
+      asked him to meet him the following day at a certain spot which he
+      described. The white man agreed to do so, but not without some
+      apprehension that mischief was intended. During the night these fears
+      increased to so great a degree, as effectually to prevent his keeping his
+      appointment.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      However, a few days after, the same Indian, finding him at work, mildly
+      reproved him for not keeping his promise. The man made the best excuse he
+      could, but the Indian was not satisfied until he had again promised to
+      meet him the next morning at the place already agreed on.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Accordingly, when he arrived at the spot, he found the Indian already
+      there, provided with two muskets and powder, and two knapsacks. The Indian
+      ordered him to take one of each, and to follow him. The direction of their
+      march was southward. The man followed without the least knowledge of what
+      he was to do, or whither he was going, but he concluded that if the Indian
+      intended to do him harm, he would have despatched him at the first
+      meeting, and certainly would not have provided him with a musket and
+      powder for defence. His fears, therefore, gradually subsided, although the
+      Indian maintained an obstinate silence when he questioned him concerning
+      the object of their expedition.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the day time they shot and cooked as much game as they required, and at
+      night they kindled a fire by which they slept. After a fatiguing journey
+      through the forest for many days, they came one morning to the top of a
+      hill from which there was the prospect of a cultivated country,
+      interspersed with several snug farm-houses.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now,&rdquo; said the Indian to his joyful companion, &ldquo;do you know where you
+      are?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; replied he, &ldquo;we are not ten miles from my own village.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And do you not remember a poor Indian at the tavern?&mdash;you feed him&mdash;you
+      speak kind to him&mdash;I am that poor Indian;&mdash;now go home.&rdquo; Having
+      said this, he bade him farewell, and the man joyfully returned to his own
+      home.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0005" id="linkimage-0005"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0022m.jpg" alt="0022m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0022.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0006" id="linkimage-0006"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0023m.jpg" alt="0023m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0023.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      INDIAN FRIENDSHIP.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0007" id="linkimage-0007"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9023.jpg" alt="9023 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9023.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      OME of the earlier settlers of Virginia acted in the most barbarous manner
+      towards their Indian neighbors, and it is, therefore, not wonderful that
+      they sometimes received a terrible punishment. But though revenge was
+      usually uppermost in the breasts of the injured ones, instances occurred
+      in which the sacred feeling of friendship triumphed over that passion and
+      the prejudice of the race.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On one occasion, Colonel Bird was employed by the English government to
+      transact some business with the tribe of Cherokees. It unfortunately
+      happened that a short time before he went among them, some white people
+      had seized two Indians, who had given them some trifling offence, and had
+      put them to death; and the Indians, indignant at the outrage, determined
+      to take revenge whenever the opportunity offered. The appearance of
+      Colonel Bird presented the wished-for opportunity, and consultations were
+      held as to the most effectual means of getting him into their power, and
+      of making him the sacrifice.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Colonel Bird perceived their intentions, and felt that he had just cause
+      for alarm, as he was in their country, without the means of escape. Among
+      the neighboring Cherokees, was one named Silouee, celebrated as a chief
+      and <i>pow-wow</i>, or medicine man. He had known Colonel Bird for some
+      time, had eaten with him, and felt a deep friendship for him. Silouee told
+      Colonel Bird not to be alarmed, and even assured him that the Indians
+      should not injure him. At length, in a general council of the chiefs and
+      old men of the tribe, it was determined in spite of Silouee&rsquo;s earnest
+      remonstrances, that Colonel Bird should be put to death in revenge for the
+      loss of their countrymen.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Two warriors were despatched to Colonel Bird&rsquo;s tent, to execute the cruel
+      sentence. Silouee insisted on accompanying them. On reaching the tent,
+      Silouee rushed in before them, threw himself on the bosom of his friend,
+      and as the warriors approached, he exclaimed, &ldquo;This man is my friend;
+      before you take him, you must kill me.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Awed by Silouee&rsquo;s determined magnanimity, the warriors returned to the
+      council, and related what had occurred. Indians generally respect a
+      faithful friend as much as they esteem one who is implacable in his
+      revenge. The consultation was reversed. Silouee&rsquo;s noble conduct altered
+      their purpose. They therefore released Colonel Bird, and bade him go to
+      his home in peace. Silouee acted as his guide and protector until Colonel
+      Bird came in sight of his tent. As they parted, the Indian&rsquo;s last words to
+      his friend were, &ldquo;When you see poor Indian in fear of death from cruel
+      white men, remember Silouee.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Some years after Colonel Bird&rsquo;s life had been saved by Silouee, he became
+      a Virginia planter, and took up his residence near the James river.
+      Silouee retained his friendship for him, becoming his near neighbor. Like
+      many of his nation, he had, by intercourse with the whites, acquired a
+      great taste for &ldquo;strong waters,&rdquo; or ardent spirits, and the dignity of the
+      chief was frequently lowered by drunkenness. On one occasion, Colonel Bird
+      had gone to another part of the country, on business, and had left the
+      care of his plantation to his overseer. The tobacco had obtained some
+      size, and a long drought coming on, there was a prospect that the crop
+      would be much injured. We have stated that Silouee was a pow-wow, or
+      Indian medicineman and conjurer. One day when he came to the plantation,
+      the overseer expressed his opinion that the tobacco crop would be entirely
+      lost, if rain did not soon fall.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said the Indian, &ldquo;what will you give me if I bring rain?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;<i>You</i> bring rain,&rdquo; said the overseer, laughing.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Me can,&rdquo; said the Indian. &ldquo;Give me two bottles of rum&mdash;only two, and
+      me bring rain enough.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The overseer cast his eye towards the heavens, but could discern no
+      appearance that foretold rain. To gratify the Indian, he promised to give
+      him the two bottles of rum when Colonel Bird arrived, in case the rain
+      should come speedily and save the crop of tobacco.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Silouee now fell to pow-wowing with all his might, making grimaces,
+      contorting his body, and uttering strange, unintelligible ejaculations.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was a hot, close day, and it so happened that towards evening, the sky,
+      which had been clear for some weeks, clouded over, and the appearance of
+      the heavens was strongly in favor of rain. Before midnight thunder was
+      heard, and heavy showers of rain watered the colonel&rsquo;s plantation
+      thoroughly; while it was remarked that the showers were so partial that
+      the neighboring plantations were left almost as dry as they were before.
+      The Indian waited quietly till the rain was over, and then walked away. A
+      few days after, the colonel returned to the plantation, and, when Silouee
+      heard of his arrival, he went immediately to visit him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Master Bird,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;me come for my two bottles of rum.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your two bottles of rum,&rdquo; exclaimed the colonel, pretending not to know
+      any thing of the matter; &ldquo;pray do I owe you two bottles of rum?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You do,&rdquo; replied the Indian.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How so?&rdquo; inquired the colonel.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Me bring you rain&mdash;me save your crop,&rdquo; said the Indian.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You bring rain,&rdquo; said the colonel; &ldquo;no such thing.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Me did,&rdquo; persisted the Indian; &ldquo;me loved you; me tell overseer to give me
+      two bottles of rum, and then me bring rain. Overseer say he would; me
+      bring cloud, then rain; now me want rum.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You saw the cloud,&rdquo; said Colonel Bird; &ldquo;you are a sad cheat.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Me no cheat,&rdquo; said the Indian; &ldquo;me <i>saw</i> no cloud; me <i>bring</i>
+      cloud.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, well,&rdquo; said the colonel, &ldquo;you are an old friend, and you shall have
+      the rum, since you beg so hard for it. But mind you, it is not for the <i>rain</i>.
+      The Great Spirit sent the rain, not you.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said the Indian, &ldquo;<i>your</i> tobacco had rain upon it&mdash;why
+      others have <i>none?</i> Answer <i>that</i>, colonel, if you can.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0008" id="linkimage-0008"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0029m.jpg" alt="0029m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0029.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0009" id="linkimage-0009"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0030m.jpg" alt="0030m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0030.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0005" id="link2H_4_0005"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE CAPTIVE SISTER.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0010" id="linkimage-0010"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9030.jpg" alt="9030 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9030.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      NSTANCES are recorded in which white children have been captured and
+      brought up by the Indians, and have so far forgotten early associations as
+      to become identified in habits and manners with their red captors. In most
+      of these cases, the adopted Indian could not be induced to return to the
+      haunts of civilization and the friends of his or her race; which fact
+      would seem to prove that, either the life of the Indian is happier than
+      that of the civilized white man, or, the qualities of our nature may be
+      altered by the power of habit.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0011" id="linkimage-0011"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0031m.jpg" alt="0031m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0031.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      In 1778, the family of Mr. Jonathan Slocum, near Wilkesbarre, (Campbell&rsquo;s
+      Wyoming,) Pennsylvania, was attacked by Indians. Within the house were two
+      girls, aged nine and five years, a son of thirteen, a little boy of two
+      and a half, and their mother. The men were working in the field, and two
+      youths were in the porch grinding a knife. One of the latter was shot and
+      scalped with his own knife. The eldest sister seized the little boy and
+      ran with him towards the fort. The Indians took the boy who had been
+      turning the grindstone, young Slocum, and his sister Frances, and prepared
+      to depart. Little Slocum being lame, they set him down, and proceeded on
+      their way. One of the Indians threw the little girl over his shoulder, and
+      her weeping face was the last object of the mother&rsquo;s gaze.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      About a month afterwards, the savages returned, murdered the aged
+      grandfather, shot a ball into the leg of the lame boy, and then plunging
+      into the woods were heard of no more. Years passed away; the mother died
+      of grief for her lost child. The two remaining brothers, grown to manhood,
+      resolved to ascertain the fate of their sister. They made every inquiry,
+      travelled through the west and into the Canadas, but all in vain; and for
+      fifty-eight years, the captive&rsquo;s fate was unknown.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At length, in 1836, accident discovered what inquiry could not. The Hon.
+      G. W. Ewing, United States agent to Indian Territory, while travelling on
+      the banks of the Mississiniwa, lost his way and was benighted, and
+      compelled to take shelter in an Indian wigwam. The agent was kindly
+      received, and after supper, entered into conversation with the hostess. He
+      was soon surprised by observing that her hair was fine and flaxen-colored,
+      and that, under her dress, her skin appeared to be white. Upon inquiry,
+      she informed him that she was the daughter of white parents, that her name
+      was Slocum, that when five years old she had been carried captive, by
+      Indians, from a house on the Susquehanna. All else was forgotten.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On reaching home, Ewing wrote an account of the affair, and sent it to
+      Lancaster for publication. Through neglect, however, it was not published
+      for two years afterwards; but it was then seen by Mr. Slocum, of
+      Wilkes-barre, the little boy who had been saved by the girl, sixty years
+      before. He immediately started for Indiana, accompanied by the sister who
+      had saved him, at the same time writing to his brother to meet him at the
+      wigwam. The incidents connected with this visit have been preserved, and
+      are interesting.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On entering the cabin, they beheld an Indian woman, apparently
+      seventy-five years old, painted and jewelled. Yet her hair was as the
+      agent had described it, and her skin beneath her dress appeared white.
+      They obtained an interpreter and began to converse. We may imagine the
+      feelings of the little party, while they listened to the Indian wo-an&rsquo;s
+      tale. The incidents of the assault and capture&mdash;too well known
+      already&mdash;were disclosed with a faithfulness which left no room for
+      doubt. &ldquo;How came your nail gone?&rdquo; inquired the sister. &ldquo;My elder brother
+      pounded it off when I was a little child in the shop.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What was your name then?&rdquo; She did not remember. &ldquo;Was it Frances?&rdquo; She
+      smiled on hearing the long-forgotten sound, and promptly answered, &ldquo;Yes.&rdquo;
+       All were now satisfied that they were of one family, and yet there was
+      little joy in that meeting. There was a sadness, not merely through
+      remembrance of the past, but of a kind present, deep, painful; for though
+      the brothers were walking the cabin unable to speak, and the sister was
+      sobbing, yet there sat the poor Indian sister, no throb of emotion
+      disturbing her equanimity.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Her previous history may soon be told. It was the Delaware tribe who had
+      taken her captive, and when she grew up among them, she married one of
+      their chiefs. He died or deserted her, and she then married a Miami. She
+      had two daughters, who both grew up and married Indians. They all lived in
+      one cabin. The brothers and sisters tried to persuade their sister to
+      return with them, and, if she desired it, to bring her children. She
+      answered that she had always lived with the Indians; that they had always
+      been kind to her; that she had promised her late husband, on his
+      death-bed, never to leave them, and that promise she was resolved to keep.
+      The three generous relatives then retraced their steps, sorrowing that
+      they were compelled to leave their sister in the wilderness.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indian sister died in 1847. Her manners and customs were those of the
+      Indians until her death, yet she was admired alike by the red and white
+      men. Her grave is on a beautiful knoll, near the confluence of the
+      Mis-sissiniwa and the Wabash, a spot which had been her residence for
+      nearly thirty years.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0012" id="linkimage-0012"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0038m.jpg" alt="0038m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0038.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0006" id="link2H_4_0006"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      PARENTAL AFFECTION.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0013" id="linkimage-0013"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9038.jpg" alt="9038 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9038.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      URING the frequent wars between the Indians and the early settlers of New
+      England, the former defeated a party of English soldiers. Their retreat
+      was without order; and a young English officer, in attempting to escape,
+      was pursued by two savages. Finding escape impracticable, and determined
+      to sell his life as dearly as possible, he turned round to face his foes.
+      A violent struggle commenced, and he must have fallen, if an old chief had
+      not thrown himself between the combatants. The red men instantly retired
+      with respect. The old man took the young officer by the hand, dispelled
+      his fears, and led him through the forest to his wigwam, where he treated
+      him with the greatest kindness. He seemed to take pleasure in the youth&rsquo;s
+      company; he was his constant companion; he taught him his language,
+      customs, and arts. Thoughts of home would sometimes haunt the young
+      Englishman. At these times, Wanou would survey his young friend
+      attentively, and the tears would fill his eyes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0014" id="linkimage-0014"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0039m.jpg" alt="0039m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0039.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      When the spring returned, the war was renewed, and Wanou whose strength
+      was still sufficient to bear the toils of war, set out with the rest of
+      the braves, and his white prisoner.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the Indians arrived in sight of the English camp, Wanou showed the
+      young officer his countrymen, observing his countenance the while. &ldquo;There
+      are thy brethren,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;waiting to fight us. Listen to me. I have
+      saved thy life. I have taught thee to make a canoe, and bow and arrows; to
+      hunt the bear and the buffalo; to bring down the deer at full speed, and
+      to outwit even the cunning fox. What wast thou when I first led thee to my
+      wigwam? Thy hands were like those of a child; they served neither to
+      support nor to defend thee; thou wert ignorant, but from me thou hast
+      learned every thing. Wilt thou be ungrateful, and raise up thy arm against
+      the red man?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The young man declared with warmth that he would rather lose his own life
+      than shed the blood of his Indian friends. The old warrior covered his
+      face with his hands, bowed his head and remained in that posture for some
+      time, as if overcome by some painful recollection. Then with a strong
+      effort, he said to the young man, &ldquo;Hast thou a father?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He was living,&rdquo; said the young man, &ldquo;when I left my native country.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh! how fortunate he is still to have a son!&rdquo; cried the Indian; and then,
+      after a moment&rsquo;s silence, he added, &ldquo;Knowest thou that I have been a
+      father; but I am no longer so! I saw my son fall in battle; he fought
+      bravely by my side; my son fell covered with wounds, and he died like a
+      man! but I revenged his death; yes, I <i>revenged</i> his death!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Wanou pronounced these words with a terrible vehemence; but at length he
+      became calm, and turning towards the east, where the sun had just risen,
+      he said, &ldquo;Young man, thou seest that glorious light&mdash;does it afford
+      thee any pleasure to behold it?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; replied the officer, &ldquo;I never look upon the rising sun without
+      pleasure, or without feeling thankful to our great father who created it.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am glad thou art happy, but there is no more pleasure for me,&rdquo; said
+      Wanou. A moment after, he showed the young man a shrub in full bloom, and
+      said, &ldquo;Hast thou any pleasure in beholding this plant?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, great pleasure,&rdquo; replied the young man.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To me, it can no longer give pleasure,&rdquo; said the old man; and then
+      embracing the young Englishman, he concluded with these words, &ldquo;Begone!
+      hasten to thy country, that thy father may still have pleasure in
+      beholding the rising sun, and the flowers of spring.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Poor chief; the death of his beloved son had broken his heart.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0015" id="linkimage-0015"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0044m.jpg" alt="0044m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0044.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0016" id="linkimage-0016"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0045m.jpg" alt="0045m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0045.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0017" id="linkimage-0017"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0047m.jpg" alt="0047m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0047.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0007" id="link2H_4_0007"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE FRIENDLY MANOEUVRE.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0018" id="linkimage-0018"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9047.jpg" alt="9047 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9047.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      ANY years ago, a Scotchman and his wife, named M&rsquo;Dou-gall, emigrated to
+      America. Having but very little money, he purchased some land upon the
+      verge of civilization, where it was sold for a low price. By great
+      exertions and the aid of his neighbors, M&rsquo;Dougall soon had a comfortable
+      farm, well stocked. But the inconvenience of distance from the church,
+      market, and mill, were felt, and caused discontent with the location.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One day, while the farmer was away at the mill, the duty of driving up the
+      cows to milk devolved on the wife, and that thrifty and industrious woman
+      went out in quest of them. Not accustomed to going far from the house, she
+      wandered through the woods, got bewildered, and just before dark sank upon
+      the ground in despair. An Indian hunter soon came along, and guessing her
+      situation, induced her to follow him to his wigwam, where she was kindly
+      fed and lodged for the night by the hunter&rsquo;s wife.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the morning, the Indian conducted his guest to her cattle, and thence
+      home. M&rsquo;Dou-gall, grateful for his service, presented him with a suit of
+      clothes, and invited him to become his frequent visitor. Three days
+      afterwards he returned, and endeavored, partly, by signs, and partly in
+      broken English, to induce M&rsquo;Dougall to follow him; but the Scotchman
+      refused. Time was precious to him who owed all his comforts to hard labor,
+      and the Indian repeated his entreaties in vain. The poor fellow looked
+      grieved and disappointed; but a moment after, a sudden thought struck him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mrs. M&rsquo;Dougall had a young child, which the Indian&rsquo;s quick eye had not
+      failed to notice; and finding that words and gestures would not persuade
+      his Scotch friend, he approached the cradle, seized the child, and darted
+      out of the house with the speed of the antelope. The father and mother
+      instantly followed, calling loudly on him to return; but he had no such
+      intention. He led them on, now slower, now faster, occasionally turning
+      towards them, laughing and holding up the child to their view. After
+      proceeding in this manner for some time, the Indian halted on the margin
+      of a most beautiful prairie, covered with the richest vegetation, and
+      extending over several thousand acres. In a moment after, the child was
+      restored to its parents, who, wondering at such strange proceedings, stood
+      awhile panting for breath. On the other hand, the Indian seemed overjoyed
+      at the success of his manoevre, and never did a human being frisk about
+      and gesticulate with greater animation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At length his feelings found vent in broken English, nearly in these
+      words:&mdash;&ldquo;You think Indian treacherous; you think him wish steal the
+      child. No, no, Indian has child of his own. Indian knew you long ago; saw
+      you when you not see him; saw you hard working man. Some white men bad and
+      hurt poor Indian. You not bad; you work hard for your wife and child; but
+      you choose bad place; you never make rich there. Indian see your cattle
+      far in the forest; think you come and catch them; you not come; your wife
+      come. Indian find her faint and weary; take her home; wife fear go in;
+      think Indian kill her! No, no! Indian lead her back; meet you very sad;
+      then very glad to see her. You kind to Indian; give him meat and drink and
+      better clothes than your own. Indian grateful; wish you come here; not
+      come; Indian very sorry; take the child; know you follow child; if Indian
+      farm, Indian farm here. Good ground; not many trees; make road in less
+      than half a moon; Indian help you. Indians your friends; come, live here.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      M&rsquo;Dougall instantly saw the advantages of the change, and taking the red
+      man&rsquo;s advice, the day was soon fixed for the removal of his log-house,
+      along with the rest of his goods and chattels; and the Indian, true to his
+      word, brought a party of his red brethren to assist in one of the most
+      romantic removals that ever took place. A fertile spot was selected in the
+      &ldquo;garden of the desert,&rdquo; a fine farm soon smiled around, and M&rsquo;Dougall had
+      no cause to regret the Indian&rsquo;s friendly manoeuvre.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0020" id="linkimage-0020"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0052m.jpg" alt="0052m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0052.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0008" id="link2H_4_0008"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      GRAND-SUN.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0021" id="linkimage-0021"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9052.jpg" alt="9052 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9052.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      RAND-SUN was a chief of the Natchez tribe. Sun was a common name for all
+      chiefs of that nation; this chief was particularly distinguished in the
+      first war with the French, in which the Natchez engaged, and the title of
+      Great-Sun was given him by his people. He was brave, wise, and generous,
+      and a friend to the whites until the haughty and overbearing disposition
+      of one man brought ruin upon the whole colony. The affair occurred in
+      1729.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Grand-Sun resided in the beautiful village called White Apple, near the
+      French post of Natchez, the commandant of which was M. Chopart. This
+      officer had been removed from his post on account of his misconduct and
+      and abominable injustice towards the Indians, but had been reinstated, and
+      his conduct had been the same as before. He projected the building an
+      elegant village, and none appeared to suit his purpose so well as the
+      White Apple of Grand-Sun. He sent for the chief to the fort, and
+      unhesitatingly told him that he must give up his village, and remove
+      elsewhere. Grand-Sun stifled his surprise, and replied, &ldquo;that his
+      ancestors had lived in that village for as many years as there were hairs
+      in his double queu, and, therefore, it was good that they should continue
+      there still.&rdquo; This was interpreted to the commandant, and he became so
+      enraged, that he threatened Grand-Sun with punishment if he did not
+      comply.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A council of the Natchez was held. They saw that all was hopeless, unless
+      they could rid themselves of Chopart by some stratagem. They decided to
+      attempt it. To gain time, an offer was made to the commandant, of tribute,
+      in case he should permit them to remain on their lands until harvest. The
+      offer was accepted, and the Indians matured their plan. Bundles of sticks
+      were sent to the neighboring tribes, and their meaning explained. Each
+      bundle contained as many sticks as days before the massacre of the French
+      at Natchez; and that no mistake should arise in regard to the fixed day,
+      every morning a stick was drawn from the bundle and broken in pieces, and
+      the day of the last stick was that of the execution.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The secret was confided to none but the older warriors, who could be
+      depended upon. But Grand-Sun was compelled to make a great sacrifice of
+      private feeling in revenging the wrongs of his countrymen. He had won the
+      respect and esteem of several of the French hunters by his generosity and
+      other noble qualities; and the very intimate acquaintance of one of them
+      in particular. This was Armand Griffin, whose family resided at Natchez,
+      while he engaged in the laborious but profitable business of hunting.
+      Grand-Sun and Griffin had become close friends. The hospitable door of the
+      chief&rsquo;s wigwam was ever open to the hunter, and the latter frequently
+      visited him, Grand-Sun had instructed him in all the mysteries of
+      woodcraft, and Griffin being naturally of a daring and restless temper,
+      had become one of the boldest and best hunters in that part of the
+      country. In return, he instructed Grand-Sun in many of the arts of the
+      white man, and thus mutual services strengthened the links of friendship.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When Grand-Sun had matured his scheme of revenge, he thought of the
+      situation of Griffin&rsquo;s family, and without hinting his purpose, advised
+      the hunter to remove them for a time. But he either would not or could
+      not, disregarding the earnest entreaties of the chief to that effect. As
+      the appointed day approached, and the security of feeling among the French
+      promised success to the scheme of massacre, Grand-Sun renewed his
+      entreaties, but still without daring to disclose the secret intent.
+      Griffin not only said that his family must remain at the post, but that he
+      himself must be there upon the day which the chief knew was fixed for the
+      dreadful revenge. After a struggle between friendship and patriotism, the
+      chief with stoic fortitude resolved to sacrifice his friend rather than
+      disclose his scheme and thus trust to the white man&rsquo;s faith for keeping
+      such a secret.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      About sunset the day before the massacre, Griffin and Grand-Sun, who had
+      been out hunting during the day, arrived at the verge of the village of
+      White Apple. A crowd of red men were assembled to welcome their great
+      chief. The friends stopped upon an elevated piece of ground near the
+      Indians. Grand-Sun had just been urging upon his friend the removal of his
+      family from the fort. But as Griffin had given signs of beginning to
+      suspect something wrong, he suddenly checked his persuasive appeal and
+      taking his hand, thus bade him farewell for ever.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0022" id="linkimage-0022"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0053m.jpg" alt="0053m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0053.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;White man, you are my friend. We have eat, slept, and hunted together. My
+      wigwam ever welcomed you, and you repaid me. The belt of friendship has
+      been brighten between us, and it should not be soiled. The great fire of
+      day is fast going out, and you must return to your pretty wife and
+      children. When it shall again be kindled, many things may be done which
+      may part us for ever. Farewell!&rdquo; The bold hunter was affected by the
+      manner of the chief, and for a while hung his head as if a gloom had come
+      over him. But rousing himself, he bade the chief farewell, and returned to
+      the post at Natchez.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Suspecting what he should have suspected long before, Griffin, as soon as
+      he returned to the fort, bade his wife and children prepare themselves for
+      leaving the place, and she complied, with many questions concerning the
+      reason for this strange movement. Griffin could not exactly say. But he
+      had resolved to leave the fort, and take shelter in a neighboring Indian
+      village belonging to the Natchez, and in an opposite direction from White
+      Apple. Here he had a friend, and he would feel secure. The escape was
+      accomplished.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The next day the fort was surprised and the whole body of the French
+      within the fort and its neighborhood were massacred. Griffin and his
+      family, and a few hunters alone escaped, and all these through the
+      interposition of Grand-Sun, who thus remained true to friendship, while he
+      maintained and executed his scheme for relieving his countrymen from the
+      oppressor. This great chief not long afterwards, was taken prisoner by a
+      French expedition from Louisiana, his people almost annihilated, and he,
+      the &ldquo;last of his line,&rdquo; died in his dungeon! Griffin ever cherished his
+      memory, and exerted himself to save him, but in vain. The white man was
+      relentless.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0023" id="linkimage-0023"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0060m.jpg" alt="0060m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0060.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0024" id="linkimage-0024"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0062m.jpg" alt="0062m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0062.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0025" id="linkimage-0025"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0063m.jpg" alt="0063m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0063.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0009" id="link2H_4_0009"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      TECUMSEH AND THE PROPHET.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0026" id="linkimage-0026"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9063.jpg" alt="9063 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9063.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      ECUMSEH, (the Crouching Panther,) was one of the greatest chiefs who ever
+      led the red men to battle. He was by birth a Shawanee, a tribe which has
+      ever been noted for its aversion to the whites. He was born about 1770,
+      and first became distinguished in 1792, when, at the head of a small band
+      of warriors, he surprised and murdered a party of whites upon Hacker&rsquo;s
+      Creek. From that time he continued to acquire a reputation for all the
+      qualities, which, in the estimation of the Indians, make up a great
+      leader.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In 1809, Governor Harrison, agreeably to instructions from government,
+      purchased of the Delawares, Miamis, and Shawanees, the country on both
+      sides of the Wabash, and extending sixty miles above Vincennes. Tecumseh
+      demurred to the sale, and Harrison, wishing to conciliate him, appointed
+      the 12th day of August, 1810, as the time, and Vincennes, as the place,
+      for holding a council to settle his claims. In this council, Tecumseh
+      delivered a speech, which eloquently unfolded his views of the aggressions
+      of the white men, and urged that the sale of the land was invalid, because
+      not made with the consent of all the red men living upon it. After
+      Tecumseh had concluded his speech, and was about to seat himself, he
+      observed that no chair had been placed for him. Harrison immediately
+      ordered one, and as the interpreter handed it to him, he said, &ldquo;Your
+      father requests you to take a chair.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;My father!&rdquo; said Tecumseh, with sublime dignity, &ldquo;the sun is my father,
+      and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom will I repose,&rdquo; and
+      immediately seated himself upon the ground. When the council had
+      concluded, Tecumseh expressed his intention to fight rather than yield the
+      ground. &ldquo;It is my determination,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;nor will I give rest to my
+      feet until I have united all the red men in the like resolution.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The threat was soon executed. The active chief visited all the western
+      tribes from the Winnebagoes to the Creeks, and made use of all means of
+      persuasion to unite them, with one aim, the maintenance of their country
+      free from the rule of the white man. Superstition is mighty among the red
+      men, and Tecumseh had the means of turning it to his purpose. His brother,
+      the well-known Prophet, (Ellskwatawa,) had obtained a reputation among the
+      neighboring Indians, as a medicine-man and conjurer. He announced that the
+      Great Spirit had conversed with him, and commissioned him to restore the
+      red men to their primitive power. The Indians believed in the truth of the
+      commission, and the Prophet, by his craft and eloquence succeeded in
+      gaining an influence among them, second only to that of his great-spirited
+      brother. A formidable confederacy was soon formed of which Tecumseh was
+      the head.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The battle of Tippecanoe was fought on the night of November 6, 1811, in
+      which sixty-two Americans were killed and one hundred and twenty-six
+      wounded. The Prophet is said to have conducted the attack, but did not
+      expose himself to danger. The vigilance of Harrison, and the bravery of
+      his men, repulsed the Indians, inflicting upon them a severe loss.
+      Tecumseh was not in the battle.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0027" id="linkimage-0027"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0065m.jpg" alt="0065m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0065.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      When the war broke out between Great Britain and the United States,
+      Tecumseh seized the opportunity to join the British general with a large
+      body of his warriors. He received the commission of brigadier-general in
+      the British army. During the latter part of his active life, he was under
+      the direction of General Proctor; but is said to have been greatly
+      dissatisfied with his proceedings. After Perry&rsquo;s victory on Lake Erie,
+      Proctor abandoned Detroit, and retreated up the Thames, pursued by General
+      Harrison, with the American army. Harrison overtook him near the Moravian
+      town, on the 5th of October, 1813. By a novel manoeuvre, ordered by
+      Harrison, and executed by Colonel Johnson, the British line was broken and
+      put to flight.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0028" id="linkimage-0028"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0070m.jpg" alt="0070m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0070.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      The Indians, commanded by Tecumseh, maintained their ground, with a noble
+      determination. The great chief fought with desperation, until a shot in
+      the head from an unknown hand, laid him dead upon the field. His warriors,
+      as if they had lost their spirit, then fled, leaving about one hundred and
+      twenty men dead upon the field.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0029" id="linkimage-0029"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0072m.jpg" alt="0072m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0072.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      Tecumseh was about forty-four years of age when he fell. He was about five
+      feet ten inches in height, and of a noble appearance. His carriage was
+      erect and lofty&mdash;his motions quick&mdash;his eyes keen, black, and
+      piercing&mdash;his visage stern, with an air of hauteur, which expressed
+      his pride of spirit. He is said to have been reserved and stern in his
+      manners. After his fall, the Indians became anxious to secure peace,
+      convinced that their cause was hopeless. The Prophet lost their
+      confidence, and sunk into insignificance.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0030" id="linkimage-0030"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0074m.jpg" alt="0074m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0074.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0031" id="linkimage-0031"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0075m.jpg" alt="0075m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0075.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0010" id="link2H_4_0010"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE DESTRUCTION OF MONTREAL.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0032" id="linkimage-0032"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9075.jpg" alt="9075 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9075.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      BOUT 1687, the Iroquois, from some neglect on the part of the governor of
+      New York, were induced to join the French interest; and in a council which
+      was held in the Iroquois country, the hatchet was buried and a treaty
+      concluded, by which the Indians promised to become the firm allies of the
+      French. The Dinondadies, a tribe of the Hurons, were considered as
+      belonging to the confederate Indians, but from some cause they were
+      dissatisfied with the league with the French, and wished by some exploit
+      to indicate that they preferred the English interest.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Adaris, nicknamed by the French, &ldquo;the Rat,&rdquo; was the head chief of the
+      Dinondadies, and famous for his courage and cunning. He put himself at the
+      head of one hundred warriors, and intercepted the ambassadors of the Five
+      Nations at one of the falls in Hadarakkin river, killing some and taking
+      others prisoners. These he informed that the French governor had told him
+      that fifty warriors of the Five Nations were coming that way to attack
+      him. They were astonished at the governor&rsquo;s perfidiousness, and so
+      completely did Adaris&rsquo;s plot succeed, that these ambassadors were deceived
+      into his interest. The Five Nations did not doubt that this outrage upon
+      their ambassadors was owing to the treachery of the French governor, and
+      they immediately formed a scheme of revenge, the object of which was the
+      destruction of Montreal.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At that time the island of Montreal contained the largest and most
+      flourishing settlement in Canada. It contained about fifteen hundred
+      inhabitants, and many flourishing plantations. The Indians thought that if
+      they could destroy Montreal, the French power in Canada might easily be
+      annihilated They assembled about twelve hundred of their bravest warriors,
+      and marched for the banks of the St. Lawrence, with great secrecy and
+      rapidity. The time fixed for the attack was the 26th of July, 1688, when
+      the harvest was approaching.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Just before day break, on the morning of the 26th, the whole body of the
+      Indians crossed the river, and advanced towards the settlement,
+      endeavoring to make their march as secret as possible. The great body of
+      the French settlers were reposing in security, but here and there an early
+      and industrious farmer was abroad, looking after his farm and cattle. One
+      of these, named Boulard, was the first to discover the approach of the
+      enemy. He was walking down his lane, between a thicket and his
+      wheat-field, when he heard a strange rustling in the bushes, at a little
+      distance, and he stopped and leaned against a fence to observe what caused
+      it. Boulard had not waited long before he caught sight of the form of two
+      or three red men coming through the wood, and he was discovered by them at
+      the same time.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0033" id="linkimage-0033"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0078m.jpg" alt="0078m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0078.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      As one of them rushed toward him, gun in hand, he sprang into his
+      wheat-field and endeavored to conceal the direction he took. A volley of
+      musketry followed him, and he was wounded, yet he kept on, fear giving him
+      extraordinary strength, and he reached the house of a neighbor. The alarm
+      was given; but it was too late. Twelve hundred red men, like so many
+      bloodhounds, were let loose upon unprepared settlers. An awful silence
+      followed. Houses were burned, plantations destroyed and the inhabitants
+      butchered. But little resistance was offered to the Indians, and that was
+      soon crushed. About four hundred persons were killed upon the spot, and
+      the Indians retreated carrying with them a large number of prisoners, who
+      were doomed to a more dreadful death. The loss of the Indians in the
+      expedition was trifling.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0034" id="linkimage-0034"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0079m.jpg" alt="0079m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0079.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      The destruction of Montreal was a terrible blow to the French, and it was
+      so well fol: lowed up by the powerful Iroquois, that it is thought, if the
+      Indians had been acquainted with the art of attacking fortified places,
+      the enemy would have been forced to abandon Canada. But they had not the
+      necessary knowledge; and the English were not wise enough to supply them
+      with it. The French maintained their ground, and the Iroquois were
+      afterwards punished for their unscrupulous warfare.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0035" id="linkimage-0035"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0080m.jpg" alt="0080m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0080.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0036" id="linkimage-0036"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0082m.jpg" alt="0082m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0082.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0037" id="linkimage-0037"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0083m.jpg" alt="0083m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0083.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0011" id="link2H_4_0011"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      A BUFFALO HUNT.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0038" id="linkimage-0038"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9083.jpg" alt="9083 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9083.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      HE buffalo hunt, next to the Indian battle, is the most intensely exciting
+      scene which may be witnessed among the wilds of the west. To the buffalo,
+      the Indian looks for food, for clothing, and for religious and household
+      implements. He regards the hunting of that animal not only as a pleasure,
+      but a duty; and when once it is rumored through a village that a herd of
+      buffalo is in sight, their warriors who have faced death in a hundred
+      forms, bring out their swiftest horses, and spring upon them; and when the
+      whole party rush across the field eager to engage the bellowing herd, a
+      scene is presented for which it would be in vain to look for a parallel,
+      even among the cane-brakes of Africa, or the jungles of India.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians have several methods of attacking buffaloes. The most exciting
+      as well as the most dangerous one is that in which they run round the herd
+      for the purpose of destroying it. The hunters, well-mounted with bows and
+      lances, divide themselves into two columns, take opposite directions, and
+      at the distance of a mile or two, draw gradually around the herd, and
+      having formed a circle, close upon their prey at regular distance, On
+      seeing the danger, the herd run in the opposite direction, where they are
+      met by the other party. The circle is gradually closed, and the parties
+      unite. By this time, the buffaloes are wheeling about in a crowded and
+      confused mass, wounding and climbing upon each other. Then their
+      destruction commences. Galloping round, the hunters drive the arrows and
+      lances to the hearts of their victims. Sometimes, the animals, furious
+      from their wounds, plunge forward, and bear down horse and rider, goring
+      and crushing the former, while the active Indian escapes. Sometimes the
+      herd divides in two, and the hunters, blinded by clouds of dust, are
+      wedged in among the crowding beasts, when their only chance of escape is
+      to leap over the backs of the herd, leaving the horse to his fate.
+      Occasionally, a buffalo selects a particular horseman, and pursues him at
+      full speed, until, when stooping to lift the horse upon his horns, he
+      receives in the side the warrior&rsquo;s shaft. Some of the Indians, when
+      pursued, throw their buffalo robe over the horns and eyes of the furious
+      animal, and, dashing by its side, drives the weapon to its heart. Others
+      dash off upon the prairie, in pursuit of the few who got separated from
+      the herd. In a few moments, the hunt is changed into a desperate battle,
+      and gradually the whole mass of buffaloes sink in death.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The hunters then dismount from their horses, and claim their prey by
+      drawing the arrows or lances from the sides of the dead beasts, and
+      showing their private marks. Quarrels are generally avoided by this plan.
+      After all the animals have been claimed, the warriors hold a council, and
+      after smoking a few pipes, ride into the village and announce the result.
+      Of course, every thing there is in commotion, and soon long processions of
+      dogs and women issue forth, skin and cut up the prey, and return amid loud
+      acclamations to their homes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0039" id="linkimage-0039"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0086m.jpg" alt="0086m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0086.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0040" id="linkimage-0040"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0088m.jpg" alt="0088m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0088.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0041" id="linkimage-0041"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0089m.jpg" alt="0089m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0089.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0012" id="link2H_4_0012"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      TREATMENT OF INDIAN CHILDREN.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0042" id="linkimage-0042"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9089.jpg" alt="9089 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9089.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      HOSE who have had the best opportunities for knowing the real character of
+      the Indians, have remarked, among many other good traits, the great
+      affection they have for their children, and the respect which young people
+      pay, not only to their parents, but to all elderly people.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Before the little papoose can walk alone, it is confined in a cradle,
+      which is carried on the mother&rsquo;s back while she is at her work, or set
+      upright against the wall, or a tree. The mother teaches her children how
+      to make leggins, moccasins, and many other things that have already been
+      described; and if she be a good mother, as many of the squaws are, she is
+      particular in keeping her daughters constantly employed, so that they may
+      have the reputation of being industrious girls, which is a recommendation
+      to the young men to marry them; Corporal punishment is seldom used for the
+      correction of children; but if they commit any fault, it is common for the
+      mother to blacken their faces, and send them out of the lodge. Sometimes
+      they are kept a whole day in this situation, as a punishment for their
+      misconduct. They think that corporal punishment breaks the spirit of the
+      child, and in this they appear to be wiser than their white brethren.
+      Parental love should persuade and guide the bold of spirit, not destroy
+      their courage.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the boys are six or seven years of age, a small bow and arrows are
+      put into their hands, and they are sent out to shoot birds around the
+      lodge or village; this they continue to do for five or six years, and then
+      their father procures for them short guns, and they begin to hunt ducks,
+      geese, and small game. They are then gradually instructed in the whole art
+      of hunting, and lastly of warfare.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians generally appear to be more afflicted at the loss of an
+      infant, or young child, than at that of a person of mature years. The
+      latter, they think, can provide for himself in the country whither he has
+      gone, but the former is too young to do so. The men appear ashamed to show
+      any signs of grief, at the loss of any relation, however dear he might
+      have been to them; but the women do not conceal their feelings; and on the
+      loss of either husband or child, they cut off their hair, disfigure their
+      face and limbs with black paint, and even with cuts, and burn all their
+      clothes except a few miserable rags.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0043" id="linkimage-0043"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0092m.jpg" alt="0092m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0092.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0013" id="link2H_4_0013"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      MRS. HANSON AND HER CHILDREN
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0044" id="linkimage-0044"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9092.jpg" alt="9092 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9092.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      HE colonists of New England, and especially of New Hampshire, were rarely
+      free from apprehension of attack from their savage neighbors. A desultory
+      warfare was carried on, even when treaties seemed to have secured peace.
+      Houses were burned, farms, teeming with the fruits of toil, destroyed, and
+      the inhabitants either murdered or made captive. Many instances are
+      recorded, of suffering and torture inflicted upon families, which have
+      been thus attacked. One of the most remarkable has been preserved in the
+      words of one of the victims, Mrs. Elizabeth Hanson.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0045" id="linkimage-0045"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0093m.jpg" alt="0093m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0093.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      On the 27th of June, 1724, a party of Indians were discovered in the
+      neighborhood of the house of John Hanson, in Dover township, New
+      Hampshire. They had been lurking in the fields several days, watching
+      their opportunity, when Mr. Hanson and his men should be out of the way.
+      At the favorable moment, thirteen Indians, all naked, and armed with
+      tomahawks and guns, rushed into the house, killing one child as soon as
+      they entered the door. The leader came up to Mrs. Hanson, but gave her
+      quarter. At the time of the attack, she had a servant and six children.
+      Two of the little ones were at play in the orchard, and the youngest
+      child, only fourteen days old, was in the cradle.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians set about rifling the house, fearing to be interrupted by the
+      return of some of the men, and packed up every thing that pleased them,
+      and which they could conveniently carry. The two children running in from
+      the orchard, the Indians killed one to prevent its shrieking, and gave the
+      other to the mother. The dead children were scalped, and the mother, the
+      servant, and the remaining children, were taken hastily from the house.
+      Mrs. Hanson was weak, yet she had no alternative but to go, or die, and
+      her children were frightened into silence. After wading through several
+      swamps, and some brooks, and carefully avoiding every thing like a road,
+      the party halted at night-fall, about ten miles from Mrs. Hanson&rsquo;s house.
+      A fire was lighted, and a watch set, while the rest of the party sought
+      repose.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Just as the day appeared, the Indians were awake, and, with their
+      captives, set out again and travelled very hard all that day through
+      swamps and woods without a path. At night all lodged upon the cold ground,
+      wet and weary. Thus for twenty-six days, day by day, the party travelled,
+      over mountains, through tangled thickets, and across rivers and swamps,
+      sometimes without any food but pieces of beaver skin, and enduring
+      hardships, to which the Indians were accustomed, but which the poor
+      captives could scarcely bear.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At the end of twenty-six days, the party reached the borders of Canada,
+      and as they were compelled to separate, the captive family was divided
+      between them. This was a sore parting, but the mother had become resigned
+      to her fate, and taught her children by example how to suffer. The eldest
+      daughter, about sixteen years of age, was first taken away, and soon
+      after, the second daughter and the servant, at that time very weak for
+      want of food, were divided between Indians going to different parts of the
+      country. The mother, her babe and little boy remained with the chief, and
+      soon arrived at his village.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The captives were now well provided with food, but were compelled to sleep
+      upon the cold ground in a wigwam. As the wigwam was often removed from
+      place to place for the convenience of hunting, and the winter was
+      approaching, the lodging became disagreeable, and the small children
+      suffered severely. When the chief arrived at the Indian fort, he was
+      received with great rejoicing, and every savage manifestation of respect.
+      The shouting, drinking, feasting, and firing of guns continued several
+      days.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The chief had not long been at home, before he went out on a hunting
+      excursion, and was absent about a week. Mrs. Hanson was left in his
+      wigwam, and ordered to get in wood; gather nuts, &amp;c. She diligently
+      performed what she had been commanded; but when the chief returned, he was
+      in an ill-humor; not having found any game. He vented his spleen upon the
+      poor captives, of course. Mrs. Hanson was roughly treated, and her son
+      knocked down. She did not dare to murmur, however, fearing his anger.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The squaw and her daughter, sympathized with the captives, informed them
+      that the chief was anxious now to put them to death, and that they must
+      sleep in another wigwam that night. During the night Mrs. Hanson slept
+      very little, being in momentary expectation that the chief would.=come to
+      execute his threat. But the chief, weary with hunting, went to rest and
+      forgot it. The next morning he went out hunting again, and returned with
+      some wild ducks. He was then in a better humor, and all had plenty to eat.
+      The same state of things occurred very frequently, and Mrs. Hanson was in
+      constant fear of death. Sometimes she suffered much from want of food.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By this time, hard labor, mean diet, and want of natural rest, had reduced
+      Mrs. Hanson so low, that her milk was dried up, and her babe thin and
+      weak. By the advice of an Indian squaw, she made some nourishing broth for
+      her babe, by broiling some kernels of walnuts, and mixing them with water
+      and Indian meal. But her joy at the success of this invention was clouded
+      by the action of the chief. Observing the thriving condition of the child,
+      he made the mother undress it, and told her he intended to eat it as soon
+      as it was fat enough. This was a terrible blow to the hopes which Mrs.
+      Hanson had begun to conceive, and his cruel treatment of her and her
+      children was aggravated every day, till, at length, he fell violently ill,
+      and for a time lingered on the brink of death. He thought that this was a
+      judgment of God upon him for his cruelty, and he professed repentance.
+      After this he soon recovered, and the captives were better treated.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The chief, a few weeks after his recovery, made another remove, journeying
+      two days upon the ice, while the snow was falling. Mrs. Hanson soon
+      perceived the object of his journey. The chief, with the hope of obtaining
+      a ransom for his captives, wished to get nearer to the French. He visited
+      the latter, but returned in a very bad humor. Mrs. Hanson was compelled to
+      lodge in a sort of hole made in the snow, and covered with boughs, in
+      order to keep from his presence.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At length the captives were taken to the French, and after some trouble
+      and delay, ransomed for six hundred livres. They were treated very kindly
+      and furnished with all those things of which they had been so long
+      destitute. One month after they fell into the hands of the French, Mr.
+      Hanson came to them with the hope of ransoming the other children and
+      servant. With much difficulty he recovered his younger daughter, but the
+      eldest was retained by the squaw to whom she had been given, as she
+      intended to marry her to her son. No means could induce the squaw to
+      surrender the daughter, and the party were forced to return without her.
+      The servant was ransomed. On the 1st of July, 1725, the party arrived
+      home, having been among the Indians and French more than twelve months,
+      and, having suffered every hardship which the captive of the Indian
+      generally endures.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mr. Hanson could not rest while his daughter remained in the hands of the
+      Indians, and he resolved to make another attempt to ransom her. On the
+      19th of February, 1727, he set out on his journey, but died on the way,
+      between Albany and Canada. In the meantime, a young Frenchman interposed,
+      and by marrying the daughter himself, secured her freedom; the Indians
+      acknowledging the freedom of their captives as soon as married by the
+      French. The daughter returned to her anxious and suffering mother and
+      sisters, and thus gave them some consolation for the loss of Mr. Hanson.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0046" id="linkimage-0046"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0102m.jpg" alt="0102m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0102.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0047" id="linkimage-0047"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0104m.jpg" alt="0104m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0104.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0048" id="linkimage-0048"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0105m.jpg" alt="0105m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0105.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0014" id="link2H_4_0014"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE STORY OF SHON-KA.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0049" id="linkimage-0049"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9105.jpg" alt="9105 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9105.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      R. CATLIN met with many interesting adventures, while visiting the
+      numerous and savage tribes of the great west, for the purpose of seeing
+      and judging for himself, of their habits and modes of life. One of these
+      he details in his valuable work, as &ldquo;The Story of the Dog,&rdquo; and as it is a
+      fine illustration of the dangers encountered by adventurers among the
+      Indians, and of the certainty of revenge which follows an injury, we here
+      insert it:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      I had passed up the Missouri river, on the steamboat Yellow Stone, on
+      which I ascended the Missouri to the mouth of Yellow Stone river. While
+      going up, this boat, having on board the United States Indian agent, Major
+      Sanford&mdash;Messrs. Pierre, Chouteau, McKenzie of the American Fur
+      Company, and myself, as passengers, stopped at this trading-post, and
+      remained several weeks; where were assembled six hundred families of Sioux
+      Indians, their tents being pitched in close order on an extensive prairie
+      on the bank of the river.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This trading-post, in charge of Mr. Laidlaw, is the concentrating place,
+      and principal depot, for this powerful tribe, who number, when all taken
+      together, something like forty or fifty thousand. On this occasion, five
+      or six thousand had assembled to see the steamboat, and meet the Indian
+      agent, which, and whom they knew were to arrive about this time. During
+      the few weeks that we remained there, I was busily engaged painting my
+      portraits, for here were assembled the principal chiefs and medicine-men
+      of the nation. To these people, the operations of my brush were entirely
+      new and unaccountable, and excited amongst them the greatest curiosity
+      imaginable. Every thing else, even the steamboat, was abandoned for the
+      pleasure of crowding into my painting-room, and witnessing the result of
+      each fellow&rsquo;s success, as he came out from under the operation of my
+      brush.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They had been at first much afraid of the consequences that might flow
+      from so strange and unaccountable an operation; but having been made to
+      understand my views, they began to look upon it as a great honor, and
+      afforded me the opportunities that I desired; exhibiting the utmost degree
+      of vanity for their appearance, both as to features and dress. The
+      consequence was, that my room was filled with the chiefs who sat around,
+      arranged according to the rank or grade which they held in the estimation
+      of their tribe; and in this order it became necessary for me to paint
+      them, to the exclusion of those who never signalized themselves, and were
+      without any distinguishing character in society.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The first man on the list, was Ha-wan-ghee-ta, (one horn,) head chief of
+      the nation, and after him the subordinate chief, or chiefs of bands,
+      according to the estimation in which they were held by the chief or tribe.
+      My models were thus placed before me, whether ugly or beautiful, all the
+      same, and I saw at once there was to be trouble somewhere, as I could not
+      paint them all. The medicine-men or high priests, who are esteemed by many
+      the oracles of the nation, and the most important men in it&mdash;becoming
+      jealous, commenced their harangues, outside of the lodge, telling them
+      that they were all fools&mdash;that those who were painted would soon die
+      in consequence; and that these pictures, which had life to a considerable
+      degree in them, would live in the hands of white men after they were dead,
+      and make them sleepless and endless trouble.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Those whom I had painted, though evidently somewhat alarmed, were
+      unwilling to acknowledge it, and those whom I had not painted, unwilling
+      to be outdone in courage, allowed me the privilege; braving and defying
+      the danger that they were evidently more or less in dread of. Feuds began
+      to arise too, among some of the chiefs of the different bands, who, (not
+      unlike some instances among the chiefs and warriors of our own country,)
+      had looked upon their rival chiefs with unsleeping jealousy, until it had
+      grown into disrespect and enmity. An instance of this kind presented
+      itself at this critical juncture, in this assembly of inflammable spirits,
+      which changed in a moment, its features, from the free and jocular
+      garrulity of an Indian levee, to the frightful yells and agitated treads
+      and starts of an Indian battle. I had in progress at this time, a portrait
+      of Mah-to-tchee-ga, (little bear;) of the Onc-pa-pa band, a noble fine
+      fellow, who was sitting before me as I was painting. I was painting almost
+      a profile view of his face, throwing a part of it into shadow, and had it
+      nearly finished, when an Indian by the name of Shon-ka, (the dog,) chief
+      of the Caz-a-zshee-ta band, an ill-natured and surly man&mdash;despised by
+      the chiefs of every other band, entered the wigwam in a sullen mood, and
+      seated himself on the floor in front of my sitter, where he could have a
+      full view of the picture in its operation. After sitting a while with his
+      arms folded, and his lips stiffly arched with contempt, he sneeringly
+      spoke thus:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Mah-to-tchee-ga is but half a man.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Dead silence ensued for a moment, and nought was in motion save the eyes
+      of the chiefs, who were seated around the room, and darting their glances
+      about upon each other in listless anxiety to hear the sequel that was to
+      follow! During this interval, the eyes of Mah-to-tchee-ga had not moved&mdash;his
+      lips became slightly curved, and he pleasantly asked in low and steady
+      accent, &ldquo;Who says that?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Shon-ka says it,&rdquo; was the reply, &ldquo;and Shonka can prove it.&rdquo; At this the
+      eyes of Mah-to-tchee-ga, which had not yet moved, began steadily to turn,
+      and slow, as if upon pivots, and when they were rolled out of their
+      sockets till they had fixed upon the object of their contempt; his dark
+      and jutting brows were shoving down in trembling contention, with the
+      blazing rays that were actually burning with contempt, the object that was
+      before them. &ldquo;Why does Shon-ka say it?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ask We-chash-a-wa-kon, (the painter,) he can tell you; he knows you are
+      but half a man&mdash;he has painted but one half of your face, and knows
+      the other half is good for nothing!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let the painter say it, and I will believe it; but when the Dog says it
+      let him prove it.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Shon-ka has said it, and Shon-ka can prove it; if Mah-to-tchee-ga be a
+      man, and wants to be honored by the white men, let him not be ashamed; but
+      let him do as Shon-ka has done, give the white man a horse, and then let
+      him see the whole of your face without being ashamed.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;When Mah-to-tchee-ga kills a white man and steals his horses, he may be
+      ashamed to look at a white man until he brings him a horse! When
+      Mah-to-tchee-ga waylays and murders an honorable and brave Sioux, because
+      he is a coward and not brave enough to meet him in fair combat, then he
+      may be ashamed to look at a white man till he has given him a horse!
+      Mah-to-tchee-ga can look at any one; and he is now looking at an old woman
+      and a coward!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      This repartee, which had lasted for a few minutes, to the amusement and
+      excitement of the chiefs, being thus ended: The Dog suddenly rose from the
+      ground, and wrapping himself in his robe, left the wigwam, considerably
+      agitated, having the laugh of all the chiefs upon him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Little Bear had followed him with his piercing eyes until he left the
+      door, and then pleasantly and unmoved, resumed his position, where he sat
+      a few minutes longer, until the portrait was completed. He then rose, and
+      in a most graceful and gentlemanly manner, presented to me a very
+      beautiful shirt of buckskin, richly garnished with quills of porcupine,
+      wringed with scalp-locks (honorable memorials) from his enemies&rsquo; heads,
+      and painted, with all his battles emblazoned on it. He then left my
+      wigwam, and a few steps brought him to the door of his own, where the Dog
+      intercepted him, and asked, &ldquo;What meant Mah-to-tchee-ga, by the last words
+      that he spoke to Shon-ka?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Mah-to-tchee-ga said it, and Shon-ka is not a fool&mdash;that is enough.&rdquo;
+       At this the Dog walked violently to his own lodge; and the Little Bear
+      retreated into his, both knowing from looks and gestures what was about to
+      be the consequence of their altercation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Little Bear instantly charged his gun, and then, as their custom is,
+      threw himself upon his face, in humble supplication to the Great Spirit
+      for his aid and protection. His wife, in the meantime, seeing him
+      agitated, and fearing some evil consequences, without knowing any thing of
+      the preliminaries, secretly withdrew the bullet from the gun, and told him
+      not of it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Dog&rsquo;s voice, at this moment, was heard, and recognized at the door of
+      Mah-to-Shee-ga&rsquo;s lodge, &ldquo;If Mah-to-tchee-ga be a whole man, let him come
+      out and prove it; it is Shon-ka that calls him!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      His wife screamed; but it was too late. The gun was in his hand, and he
+      sprang out of the door&mdash;both drew and simultaneously fired. The Dog
+      fled uninjured; but the Little Bear lay weltering in his blood (strange to
+      say!) with all that side of his face shot away, which had been left out of
+      the picture; and, according to the prediction of the Dog, &ldquo;good for
+      nothing;&rdquo; carrying away one half of the jaws, and the flesh from the
+      nostrils and corner of the mouth, to the ear, including one eye, and
+      leaving the jugular vein entirely exposed. Here was a &ldquo;coup;&rdquo; and any one
+      accustomed to the thrilling excitement that such things produce in an
+      Indian village, can form some idea of the frightful agitation amidst
+      several thousand Indians, who were divided into jealous bands or clans,
+      under ambitious and rival chiefs! In one minute a thousand guns and bows
+      were seized! A thousand thrilling yells were raised; and many were the
+      fierce and darting warriors who sallied round the Dog for his protection&mdash;he
+      fled amidst a shower of bullets and arrows; but his braves were about him!
+      The blood of the Onc-pa-pas was roused, and the indignant braves of that
+      gallant band rushed forth from all quarters, and, swift upon their heels,
+      were hot for vengeance! On the plain, and in full view of us, for some
+      time, the whizzing arrows flew, and so did bullets, until the Dog and his
+      brave followers were lost in distance on the prairie! In this rencontre,
+      the Dog had his arm broken; but succeeded, at length, in making his
+      escape.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the next day after this affair took place, Little Bear died of his
+      wound, and was buried amidst the most pitiful and heart-rending cries of
+      his distracted wife, whose grief was inconsolable at the thought of having
+      been herself the immediate and innocent cause of his death, by depriving
+      him of his supposed protection.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This marvellous and fatal transaction was soon talked through the village,
+      and the eyes of all this superstitious multitude were fixed on me as the
+      cause of the calamity&mdash;my paintings and brushes were instantly
+      packed, and all hands, Traders and Travellers, assumed at once a posture
+      of defence.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      I evaded, no doubt, in a great measure, the concentration of their
+      immediate censure upon me, by expressions of great condolence, and by
+      distributing liberal presents to the wife and relations of the deceased;
+      and by uniting also with Mr. Laidlaw and the other gentlemen, in giving
+      him honorable burial, where we placed over his grave a handsome Sioux
+      lodge, and hung a white flag to wave over it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On this occasion many were the tears that were shed for the brave and
+      honorable Mah-to-tchee-ga, and all the warriors of his band swore
+      sleepless vengeance on the Dog, until his life should answer for the loss
+      of their chief.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the day that he was buried, I started for the mouth of the Yellow
+      Stone, and while I was gone, the spirit of vengeance had pervaded nearly
+      all the Sioux country in search of the Dog, who had evaded pursuit. His
+      brother, however, a noble and honorable fellow, esteemed by all who knew
+      him, fell in their way in an unlucky hour, when their thirst for vengeance
+      was irresistible, and they slew him. Repentance deep, and grief were the
+      result of this rash act, when they beheld a brave and worthy man fall for
+      so worthless a character; and as they became exasperated, the spirit of
+      revenge grew more desperate than ever, and they swore they never would lay
+      down their arms or embrace their wives and children until vengeance, full
+      and complete, should light upon the head that deserved it. This brings us
+      again to the first part of my story, and in this state were things in that
+      part of the country, when I was descending the river, four months
+      afterwards, and landed my canoe, as I before stated, at Laidlaw&rsquo;s
+      trading-post.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The excitement had been kept up all summer among these people, and their
+      superstitions bloated to the full brim, from circumstances so well
+      calculated to feed and increase them. Many of them looked at me at once as
+      the author of all these disasters, considering I knew that one half of the
+      man&rsquo;s face was good for nothing, or that I would not have left it out of
+      the picture, and that I must have foreknown the evils that were to flow
+      from the omission; they consequently resolved that I was a dangerous man,
+      and should suffer for my temerity in case the Dog could not be found.
+      Councils had been held, and in all the solemnity of Indian medicine and
+      mystery, I had been doomed to die! At one of these, a young warrior of the
+      Onc-pa-pa band, arose and said, &ldquo;The blood of two chiefs has been sunk
+      into the ground, and a hundred bows are bent which are ready to shed more!
+      on whom shall we bend them? I am a friend to the white man, but here is
+      one whose medicine is too great&mdash;he is a great medicineman! his
+      medicine is too great! he was the death of Mah-to-tchee-ga! he made only
+      one side of his face! he would not make the other&mdash;the side that he
+      made was alive; the other was dead, and Shon-ka shot it off! How is this?
+      Who is to die?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      After him, Tah-zee-kee-da-cha (torn belly,) of the Yankton band, arose,
+      and said, &ldquo;Father, this medicine-man has done much harm! You told our
+      chiefs and warriors, that they must be painted&mdash;you said he was a
+      good man, and we believed you! you thought so, my father, but you see what
+      he has done!&mdash;he looks at our chiefs and our women and then makes
+      them alive!! In this way he has taken our chiefs away, and he can trouble
+      their spirits when they are dead!&mdash;they will be unhappy. If he can
+      make them alive by looking at them, he can do us much harm!&mdash;you tell
+      us that they are not alive&mdash;we see their eyes move!&mdash;their eyes
+      follow us wherever we go, that is enough! I have no more to say!&rdquo; After
+      him arose a young man of the Onc-pa-pa band. &ldquo;Father! you know that I am
+      the brother of Mah-to-tchee-ga!&mdash;you know that I loved him&mdash;both
+      sides of his face were good, and the medicine-man knew it also! Why was
+      half of his face left out? He never was ashamed, but always looked white
+      man in the face! Why was that side of his face shot off? Your friend is
+      not our friend, and has forfeited his life&mdash;we want you to tell us
+      where he is&mdash;we want to see him!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Then rose Toh-ki-e-to (a medicine-man,) of the Yankton band, and principal
+      orator of the nation. &ldquo;My friend, these are young men that speak&mdash;I
+      am not afraid! your white medicine-man painted my picture, and it was good&mdash;I
+      am glad of it&mdash;I am very glad to see that I shall live after I am
+      dead!&mdash;I am old and not afraid!&mdash;some of our young men are
+      foolish. I know that this man put many of our buffaloes in his book! for I
+      was with him, and we have had no buffaloes since to eat, it is true&mdash;but
+      I am not afraid!! his medicine is great and I wish him well&mdash;we are
+      friends.&rdquo; Thus rested the affair of the Dog and its consequences, until I
+      conversed with Major Bean, the agent for these people, who arrived in St.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Louis some weeks after I did, bringing later intelligence from them,
+      assuring me that the Dog had at length been overtaken and killed, near the
+      Black-hills, and that the affair might now for ever be considered as
+      settled.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0050" id="linkimage-0050"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0121m.jpg" alt="0121m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0121.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0051" id="linkimage-0051"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0122m.jpg" alt="0122m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0122.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0015" id="link2H_4_0015"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE DEATH OF CANONCHET.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0052" id="linkimage-0052"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9122.jpg" alt="9122 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9122.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      ANONCHET was the sachem of the powerful tribe of Narragansetts, who
+      inhabited a part of New England claimed by the government of Connecticut.
+      In the war between the Indians and the colonists, which began in 1675, and
+      is commonly called &ldquo;King Philip&rsquo;s war,&rdquo; the Narragansetts were led by
+      their own wrongs and the arts of Philip to join in the Indian confederacy.
+      But they suffered severely for their hostility. Their fort was attacked by
+      a large force of colonists, under Governor Winslow, and the greater part
+      of them perished by the guns of the English, or in the flames of the
+      burning fort.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The remnant of the Narragansetts fled, under the command of Canonchet and
+      Punno-quin, both of whom were filled with inveterate hatred of the
+      colonists. Canonchet was the son of the celebrated Miantonomoh, and the
+      remembrance of his father&rsquo;s fate rankled in his breast, and rendered him
+      fierce and cruel beyond his nature. The Narragansetts reached the
+      Wachusetts hills in safety, where they united with the Nipmucks and other
+      friendly tribes. But they were in a destitute condition, and Canonchet was
+      obliged to make great exertions to supply them with food, in order to keep
+      them faithful to him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Early in April, 1676, he proposed the daring design of an expedition to
+      Seekonk, to procure seed corn to plant along the Connecticut river, where
+      he had taken refuge. At the head of about fifty men, he marched towards
+      Seekonk, and soon reached Black Stone river. There he encamped, and
+      imagining that no colonial force was nearer than Plymouth, dismissed
+      twenty of his men.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 27th of March, Captain Dennison had left Stonington, with a body of
+      troops, on an exploring expedition, in search of Indians. When near
+      Seekonk, he captured two squaws, who informed him of Canonchet&rsquo;s
+      encampment. The captain quickened his march, and as Canonchet&rsquo;s men,
+      instead of giving the alarm, fled in different directions, the colonists
+      were in his camp before he knew of their approach. The chief, seeing his
+      men run, sent out two or three to ascertain the cause. One of these
+      returned to the wigwam, crying out that the English were upon them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Canochet fled. While running around the hill near his camp, he was
+      recognized by the Nanticks, who commenced a vigorous pursuit. The chase
+      was long and exciting. One by one, the chief threw off&rsquo; his blanket, his
+      silver-laced coat, and his belt of peag. His pursuers gained upon him; and
+      giving up all hope of reaching the woods, he hurried towards the river.
+      Monopoide, a Pequot, noted for his swiftness, pursued in such a way as to
+      force the chief to cross or be caught. Canonchet plunged into the stream,
+      and swam for the opposite shore. The English, filled with rage and fearful
+      of being baffled, hurried to the river&rsquo;s bank, in order to shoot him if an
+      opportunity offered; but Canonchet would have escaped, had not an accident
+      occurred, which, to use his own words, &ldquo;made his heart and bowels turn
+      within, so that he became like a rotten stick, and void of strength.&rdquo; As
+      he reached a shallow part of the stream, he began to wade, when his foot
+      struck against a stone, and he fell into the water. His gun became
+      useless.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Monopoide, seeing the accident, leaped into the water, and daringly swam
+      towards the chief, who was probably intimidated by superstition. When
+      seized, Canonchet did not resist, although he was a man of great size,
+      strength, and courage. A young man, named Staunton, now approached and
+      asked the chief some questions in regard to his conduct during the war.
+      For a while Canonchet treated him with silent contempt. But when the other
+      had ceased, he replied, &ldquo;You much child&mdash;no understand matters of
+      war. Let your brother or chief come, him I will answer.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Canonchet was then brought before Dennison. The latter offered the chief
+      his life on condition that he would induce his nation to submit. But he
+      rejected the offer with contempt. He was commanded to comply. He answered
+      that killing him would not end the war. Some of the soldiers reminded him
+      that he had threatened to burn the English in their houses; and that in
+      spite of a late treaty, he had boasted that he would not give up a
+      Wampanoag, or the paring of the nail of a Wampanoag. He replied that
+      others were as forward for the war as himself, and that he wished to hear
+      no more about it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Dennison, filled with joy at his good fortune, soon after returned to
+      Stonington. Canonchet was not kept long in suspense, in regard to his
+      fate. The officers decided that he should be shot. The sentence was
+      announced to him, and his reply was, &ldquo;I like it well. I shall die before
+      my heart is soft, or I shall say any thing unworthy of myself.&rdquo; When
+      charged with cruelty and treachery, he reminded his foes that they had
+      killed his father, and burned his people at Narragansett. Through all his
+      captivity, Canonchet evinced a pride of soul that danger could not fright
+      nor suffering bend.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The &ldquo;last of the Narragansetts,&rdquo; as Canonchet has been termed, was led out
+      to die, &ldquo;and that all might share in the glory of destroying so great a
+      prince, and come under the obligation of fidelity, each to the other, the
+      Pequots shot him, the Mohegans cut off his head, and quartered his body,
+      and the Nan-ticks made the fire and burned his quarters; and as a token of
+      fidelity to the English, presented his head to the council at Hartford.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0053" id="linkimage-0053"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0123m.jpg" alt="0123m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0123.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      The modern reader views the detail of this execution with disgust. But the
+      colonists then thought them wise and just.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The death of Canonchet was a severe loss to the Indians. Endowed with a
+      high and generous spirit, he had obtained a great and rare influence-among
+      his own and other tribes, and could at any time summon to the aid of
+      Philip, many faithful and efficient men. He bound men to his interest by
+      appealing to their love of what is great and heroic, rather than their
+      fears, and of all Philip&rsquo;s captains, he was the most skilful leader, and
+      the bravest warrior. Notwithstanding his treaty with the English, he
+      refused to give up the fugitive Wampanoags to them; but this refusal was
+      owing as much to humanity of feeling as to a violation of his word. The
+      records of his conduct while free and among his tribe, and while a captive
+      with the whites, lead us to lament the fate of so able, so noble, and
+      generous a man.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0054" id="linkimage-0054"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0130m.jpg" alt="0130m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0130.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0055" id="linkimage-0055"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0132m.jpg" alt="0132m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0132.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0056" id="linkimage-0056"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0133m.jpg" alt="0133m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0133.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0016" id="link2H_4_0016"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      CHURCH AND THE NARRAGANSETT.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0057" id="linkimage-0057"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9133.jpg" alt="9133 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9133.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      FTER the great destruction of the Narragansett Indians, in King Philip&rsquo;s
+      War, by the Connecticut forces, the remnant of the tribe were pursued in
+      all directions. Winslow, with the main body of the troops, advanced
+      rapidly towards the Nipmuck country. During the pursuit, the celebrated
+      Captain Benjamin Church met with a singular and almost fatal adventure.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Church had been removed with the other wounded to the Narragansett&rsquo;s fort.
+      But partially recovered, and being very restless, he had again joined the
+      army, and was persuaded by Winslow to aid him in the pursuit of the
+      Narragansetts. On the route they reached an Indian town, situated on a
+      small island, which was surrounded by a swamp. The water in the swamp was
+      frozen, which prevented the soldiers from charging the wigwam. A spirited
+      fire of musketry commenced, under cover of which the troops began to cross
+      the ice. The Indians defended themselves until the assailants reached the
+      island, when they broke and fled. A Mohegan, friendly to the English
+      joined in the pursuit, and capturing one of the enemy, who had been
+      wounded in the leg, brought him to Winslow.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Winslow examined him, but could not draw from him the wished for knowledge
+      concerning the designs of his countrymen. The captive was threatened; he
+      said he had revealed all he knew. Many standing, around demanded that he
+      should be tortured; but by the advice of Church, the demand was refused.
+      The army commenced its march. But as the Narragansett&rsquo;s wound prevented
+      him from keeping pace with the troops, it was resolved to &ldquo;knock him in
+      the head.&rdquo; The Mohegan who captured him was appointed his executioner.
+      Church, taking no delight in such things, withdrew.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Mohegan, elated with the honor conferred upon him, advanced towards
+      his victim, flourishing his tomahawk, and evincing, by distortions of limb
+      and feature, the extremity of his satisfaction. Suddenly, he aimed a
+      tremendous blow at the prisoner&rsquo;s head, but the latter skilfully dodged
+      it, and the hatchet flying from the Mohegan&rsquo;s hand, &ldquo;had like to have done
+      execution, where it was not designed.&rdquo; Seizing the favorable moment, the
+      Narragansett broke from those who held him, and ran for his life. Taking
+      the same direction that Church had done, he unexpectedly ran directly upon
+      him. Church grappled with him; a short but furious scuffle ensued, but the
+      Narragansett, being destitute of clothing, slipped from his adversary&rsquo;s
+      grasp, and again ran. Church followed, the Indian stumbled and fell, and
+      the bold volunteer again seized him. They fought and wrestled until the
+      Indian slipped through Church&rsquo;s hands, and set out upon his third race.
+      Church was close behind him, &ldquo;grasping occasionally at his hair,&rdquo; which
+      was all the hold could be taken of him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They soon reached a wide surface of ice, which being in some places
+      hollow, caused a rumbling noise, which induced Church to hope that some of
+      his friends might hear it and come to his relief. Unfortunately for the
+      Indian, it began to grow dark, and while running at full speed, he came
+      abreast of a fallen tree of great thickness. Why he did not overleap it is
+      not known; but having probably became intimidated, he suddenly stopped and
+      cried aloud for aid. Church was soon upon him. The Indian seized him by
+      the hair, and tried to break his neck. Church also laid hold of his
+      adversary&rsquo;s hair with both hands, repaying twist for twist. While in this
+      attitude, hanging by each other&rsquo;s hair, the volunteer contrived to butt
+      the Indian vigorously with his head in the face.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While this sharp scuffle was in progress, the ice was heard crackling at a
+      distance, and soon after some person ran towards them. The combatants were
+      kept in suspense, as the darkness prevented the new comer from being seen.
+      The stranger reached them, and without speaking a word began to feel first
+      Church and then the Indian. Amid the same ominous silence, he raised his
+      hatchet, and sunk it in the head of the savage. It was the Mohegan who had
+      acted as executioner. Overjoyed at having gratified his cruelty, he hugged
+      Church again and again, thanked him for having caught his prisoner, and
+      conducted him in triumph to the camp. Throughout this struggle for life,
+      Church acted with his usual dauntless spirit, and the capture of the
+      Narragansett was owing entirely to his persevering courage. The Indian was
+      unjustly put to death, he being fully entitled to be considered as a
+      prisoner of war. But the colonists thought by appointing a Mohegan to be
+      his executioner, to heighten the friendly feeling existing between that
+      tribe and the English.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0058" id="linkimage-0058"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0138m.jpg" alt="0138m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0138.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0059" id="linkimage-0059"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0140m.jpg" alt="0140m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0140.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0060" id="linkimage-0060"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0141m.jpg" alt="0141m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0141.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0017" id="link2H_4_0017"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE DEATH OF KING PHILIP.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0061" id="linkimage-0061"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9141.jpg" alt="9141 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9141.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      HEN the famous King Philip had lost the greater part of his warriors in
+      the struggle for life and death between them and the English, and he
+      himself was hunted like a wild beast from place to place, he formed the
+      strange resolve of visiting the ancient haunt of his ancestors at Mount
+      Hope, With a few of his best friends he retired into that swamp which was
+      destined to be a prison for him. His retreat was betrayed to Captain
+      Church, by an Indian deserter, whose brother Philip had killed in a fit of
+      passion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Church, accompanied by Major Sandford, and Captain Golding, and about
+      twenty men, prepared to follow the great chief to the swamp. He crossed
+      Trip&rsquo;s ferry in the evening, and about midnight, a consultation was held
+      as to the best mode of attack. Church offered Golding a small force that
+      he might go in advance and discover the real situation of Philip. Golding
+      promptly accepted it. Church then instructed him to be careful in his
+      approach to the enemy, and be sure not to show himself until by daylight,
+      that they might know their own men from the enemy; to creep as close to
+      the ground as possible, until they came quite near to the swamp, in order
+      to fire upon the Indians as soon as they arose; and that when the enemy
+      should start for the swamp, he should pursue them with speed. He was to
+      shout as loud as he could, for the ambuscade would receive orders to fire
+      upon any one who should approach in silence. A colonist and an Indian were
+      placed behind each shelter. The arrangements made it impossible for any
+      one to pass from the swamp without being seen.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The swamp in which Philip was concealed is thus described by Carne.&mdash;&ldquo;It
+      was a fit retreat for a despairing man, being one of those waste and
+      dismal places to which few ever wandered, covered with rank and dense
+      vegetation. The moist soil was almost hidden by the cypress and other
+      trees, that spread their gloomy shades over the treacherous shallows and
+      pools&rsquo; beneath. In the few drier parts, oaks and pines grew, and, between
+      them, a brushwood so thick that the savage could hardly penetrate: on the
+      long, rich grass of these parts, wild cattle fed, unassailed by the hand
+      of man, save when they ventured beyond the confines of the swamp. There
+      were wolves, deer, and other animals; and wilder men, it was said, were
+      seen here; it was supposed that the children of some of the Indians had
+      either been lost or left there, and had thus grown up like denizens of
+      this wild. Here the baffled chieftain gathered his little band around him,
+      like a lion baited by the hunters, sullenly seeking his gloomy thickets
+      only to spring forth more fatally. His love was turned to agony; his wife
+      was in the land of his enemies; and would they spare her beauty? His only
+      son, the heir of a long line, must bow his head to their yoke; his chief
+      warriors had all fallen, and he could not trust the few who were still
+      with him.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Early on the moaning of the 12th of August, Church approached Major
+      Sandford, and taking him by the hand, said that he had placed his men so
+      that it was scarcely possible for Philip to escape. At this moment, a
+      single shot was heard in the distance, and a ball whistled through the air
+      over their heads. Church imagined that it had been fired by accident; but
+      before he could speak, an entire volley was discharged.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The battle had been hastened by the indiscretion of Golding. An Indian,
+      having retired at some distance from his companions, stood for a while
+      looking around him, and as Golding supposed, directly at him. The captain
+      immediately fired; and his men poured a volley into the Indian camp,
+      which, as the savages were asleep, passed clear over them. Philip&rsquo;s men,
+      thus unexpectedly aroused, ran into the swamp, and the chief, throwing his
+      belt and powder horn over his head, seized his gun and fled. Unaware of
+      the ambush, he ran directly towards one of Church&rsquo;s men. When he was quite
+      near, the colonist levelled his gun, but missed fire. He bade the Indian
+      fire, which he did with effect, one of the balls passing through the
+      sachem&rsquo;s heart, and another through his lungs. He bounded into the air and
+      fell upon his face in the mud.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The battle continued, though the Indians fought against great odds. They
+      were rallied and encouraged to stand, by an old chief, who frequently
+      repeated in a loud voice, the exclamation, &ldquo;Iootash,&rdquo; a sort of war-cry in
+      time of danger. Church, surprised by the boldness of this chief, and the
+      loudness of his voice, asked his Indian servant, Peter, who it was. He
+      answered that it was Philip&rsquo;s great captain, Annawon, &ldquo;calling on his
+      soldiers to stand to it, and fight stoutly.&rdquo; But the efforts of the chief
+      failed; the greater part of the men, discovering that a part of the swamp
+      was not surrounded, made their escape.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Alderman, the Indian who had shot Philip, immediately informed Church of
+      his exploit; but the captain told him to keep silence until they had
+      driven all the Indians from the swamp. The skirmishing continued until sun
+      rise, when Annawon and the few who remained with him, escaped. In this
+      encounter five Indians were killed, among whom was a son of the great
+      Philip.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Church, glad of having accomplished the main object of the expedition,
+      thought it useless to pursue the fugitives, and hence collected his men in
+      the place where the Indians had passed the night. Here he informed them of
+      Philip&rsquo;s death, which was greeted with three loud cheers; after which the
+      sachem&rsquo;s body was dragged from the mud to the upland. In the moment of
+      victory, Church forgot the magnanimity which had hitherto distinguished
+      him, and joined in the jests, with which his men insulted the corpse of
+      the man, at whose name they had formerly trembled. The captain ordered him
+      to be beheaded and quartered, which was accomplished by an old Indian
+      executioner, the pieces being hung on trees. One of the hands which had
+      been scarred by the splitting of a pistol, was given to Alderman &ldquo;to show
+      to such gentlemen as would bestow gratuitous alms upon him, and
+      accordingly, he got many a penny by it,&rdquo; The head was placed in a
+      conspicuous part of the town of Plymouth, where it remained many years.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The war was considered as ended with the death of the leading spirit on
+      the part of the Indians. It had been one of extermination upon both sides,
+      but the red men had suffered far more than the English. The character of
+      Philip has been frequently drawn by able pens, and full justice has been
+      rendered to his memory. Activity, courage, skill in war and diplomacy,
+      were the remarkable features of his well-known character. His ends were
+      lofty and startling, and he was wise in the choice of means. To great
+      qualities of mind, he added the strongest feelings, and no part of his
+      life excites our sympathies more than his latter days, when, bereft of
+      friends and relations, he returned, broken-hearted, to the haunts of his
+      youth. His hatred of the English, was early and lasting&mdash;founded upon
+      just cause, and followed up with unrelenting cruelty. He was a savage,
+      untaught in the arts and refinements of civilization, and in estimating
+      his character this should be considered. Then will it be clear, that
+      Philip was one of the greatest of Indians and the noblest of the unlearned
+      children of the forest.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0062" id="linkimage-0062"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0149m.jpg" alt="0149m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0149.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0063" id="linkimage-0063"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0151m.jpg" alt="0151m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0151.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0018" id="link2H_4_0018"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE RAIN MAKERS.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0064" id="linkimage-0064"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9151.jpg" alt="9151 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9151.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      HE Mandans, have dignitaries whom they call &ldquo;rain makers,&rdquo; and &ldquo;rain
+      stoppers,&rdquo; because they believe in their powers to bring rain in case of
+      drought, or to stop the rain when too strong and violent. Catlin gives a
+      very interesting account of an instance in which the powers of these men
+      were tested.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Mandans, says Catlin, raise a great deal of corn; but sometimes a most
+      disastrous drought visits the land, destructive to their promised harvest.
+      Such was the case when I arrived at the Mandan village, on the steamboat
+      Yellow Stone. Rain had not fallen for many a day, and the dear little
+      girls and ugly old squaws, altogether, (all of whom had fields of corn,)
+      were groaning and crying to their lords, and imploring them to intercede
+      for rain, that their little patches, which were now turning pale and
+      yellow, might not be withered, and they be deprived of the customary
+      annual festivity, and the joyful occasion of the &ldquo;roasting ears,&rdquo; and the
+      &ldquo;green corn dance.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The chiefs and doctors sympathized with the distress of the women, and
+      recommended patience. Great deliberation, they said, was necessary in
+      these cases; and though they resolved on making the attempt to produce
+      rain for the benefit of the corn; yet they very wisely resolved that to
+      begin too soon might ensure their entire defeat in the endeavor: and that
+      the longer they put it off, the more certain they would be of ultimate
+      success. So, after a few days of further delay, when the importunities of
+      the women had become clamorous, and even mournful, and almost
+      insupportable, the medicine-men assembled in the council-house, with all
+      their mystery apparatus about them&mdash;with an abundance of wild sage,
+      and other aromatic herbs, with a fire prepared to burn them, that their
+      savory odors might be sent forth to the Great Spirit. The lodge was closed
+      to all the villagers, except some ten or fifteen young men, who were
+      willing to hazard the dreadful alternative of making it rain, or suffer
+      the everlasting disgrace of having made a fruitless essay.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They, only, were allowed as witnesses to the <i>hocus focus</i> and <i>conjurations</i>
+      devised by the doctors inside of the medicine lodge; and they were called
+      up by lot, each one in his turn, to spend a day upon the top of the lodge,
+      to test the potency of his medicine; or, in other words, to see how far
+      his voice might be heard and obeyed amongst the clouds of the heavens;
+      whilst the doctors were burning incense in the wigwam below, and with
+      their songs and prayers to the Great Spirit for success, were sending
+      forth grateful fumes and odors to Him &ldquo;who lives in the sun and commands
+      the thunders of Heaven.&rdquo; Wah-kee, (the shield,) was the first who ascended
+      the wigwam at sun rise; and he stood all day, and looked foolish, as he
+      was counting over and over his string of mystery-beads&mdash;the whole
+      village were assembled around him, and praying for his success. Not a
+      cloud appeared&mdash;the day was calm and hot; and at the setting of the
+      sun, he descended from the lodge and went home&mdash;&ldquo;his medicine was not
+      good,&rdquo; nor can he ever be a medicineman.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Om-pah, (the elk,) was the next; he ascended the lodge at sunrise the next
+      morning. His body was entirely naked, being covered with yellow clay. On
+      his left arm he carried a beautiful shield, and a long lance in his right;
+      and on his head the skin of a raven, the bird that soars amidst the
+      clouds, and above the lightning&rsquo;s glare&mdash;he flourished his shield and
+      brandished his lance, and raised his voice, but in vain; for at sun set
+      the ground was dry, and the sky was clear; the squaws were crying, and
+      their corn was withering at its roots.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      War-rah-pa, (the beaver,) was the next; he also spent his breath in vain
+      upon the empty air, and came down at night&mdash;and Wak-a-dah-ha-hee,
+      (the white buffalo&rsquo;s hair,) took the stand the next morning. He was a
+      small, but beautifully proportioned young man. He was dressed in a tunic,
+      and leggings of the skins of the mountain-sheep, splendidly garnished with
+      the quills of the porcupine, and fringed with locks of hair taken by his
+      own hand from the heads of his enemies. On his arm he carried his shield,
+      made of the buffalo&rsquo;s hide&mdash;its boss was the head of the war-eagle&mdash;and
+      its front was ornamented with &ldquo;red chains of lightning.&rdquo; In his left hand
+      he clinched his sinewy bow and one single arrow. The villagers were all
+      gathered about him; when he threw up a feather to decide on the course of
+      the wind, and he commenced thus: &ldquo;My friends! people of the pheasants! you
+      see me here a sacrifice&mdash;I shall this day relieve you from great
+      distress, and bring joy amongst you; or I shall descend from this lodge
+      when the sun goes down, and live amongst the dogs and old women all my
+      days. My friends! you saw which way the feather flew, and I hold my shield
+      this day in the direction where the wind comes&mdash;the lightning on my
+      shield will draw a great cloud, and the arrow, which is selected from my
+      quiver, and which is feathered with the quill of the white swan, will make
+      a hole in it. My friends! this hole in the lodge at my feet, shows me the
+      medicine-men, who are seated in the lodge below me and crying to the Great
+      Spirit and through it comes and passes into my nose delightful odors,
+      which you see rising in the smoke to the Great Spirit above, who rides in
+      the clouds and commands the winds! Three days they have sat here, my
+      friends, and nothing has been done to relieve your distress. On the first
+      day was Wah-kee, (the shield,) he could do nothing; he counted his beads
+      and came down&mdash;his medicine was not good&mdash;his name was bad, and
+      it kept off the rain. The next was Om-pah, (the elk;) on his head the
+      raven was seen, who flies above the storm, and he failed. War-rah-pa, (the
+      beaver,) was the next, my friends; the beaver lives under the water, and
+      he never wants it to rain. My friends! I see you are in great distress,
+      and nothing has yet been done; this shield belonged to my father the White
+      Buffalo; and the lightning you see on it is red; it was taken from a black
+      cloud, and that cloud will come over us to-day. I am the White Buffalo&rsquo;s
+      Hair&mdash;and am the son of my father.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      It happened on this memorable day about noon, that the steamboat Yellow
+      Stone, on her first trip up the Missouri river, approached and landed at
+      the Mandan village. I was lucky enough to be a passenger on this boat, and
+      helped to fire a salute of twenty guns of twelve pounds calibre, when we
+      first came in sight of the village, some three or four miles below. These
+      guns introduced a new sound into this strange country, which the Mandans
+      first supposed to be thunder; and the young man upon the lodge, who turned
+      it to good account, was gathering fame in rounds of applause, which were
+      repeated and echoed through the whole village; all eyes were centred upon
+      him&mdash;chiefs envied him&mdash;mother&rsquo;s hearts were beating high whilst
+      they were decorating and leading up their fair daughters to offer him in
+      marriage, on his signal success. The medicine-men had left the lodge, and
+      came out to bestow upon him the envied title of &ldquo;medicine-man, or doctor,&rdquo;
+       which he had so deservedly won&mdash;wreaths were prepared to decorate his
+      brows, and eagles&rsquo; plumes and calumets were in readiness for him; his
+      friends were all rejoiced&mdash;his enemies wore on their faces a silent
+      gloom and hatred; and his old sweethearts, who had formerly cast him off,
+      gazed intently upon him, as they glowed with the burning fever of
+      repentance.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      During all this excitement, Wak-a-dah-hahee kept his position, assuming
+      the most commanding and threatening attitudes; brandishing his shield in-=
+      the direction of the thunder, although there was not a cloud to be seen,
+      until he, poor fellow, being elevated above the rest of the village,
+      espied, to his inexpressible amazement, the steamboat ploughing its way up
+      the windings of the river below; puffing her steam from her pipes, and
+      sending forth the thunder from a twelve-pounder on her deck!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The White Buffalo&rsquo;s Hair stood motionless and turned pale, he looked
+      awhile, and turned to the chief and to the multitude, and addressed them
+      with a trembling lip&mdash;&ldquo;My friends, we will get no rain! there are,
+      you see, no clouds; but my medicine is great&mdash;I have brought a
+      thunder boat! look and see it! the thunder you hear is out of her mouth,
+      and the lightning which you see is on the waters!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      At this intelligence, the whole village flew to the tops of their wigwams,
+      or to the bank of the river, from whence the steamer was in full view, and
+      ploughing along, to their utter dismay and confusion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In this promiscuous throng of chiefs, doctors, women, children, and dogs,
+      was mingled Wak-a-dah-ha-hee, (the white buffalo&rsquo;s hair,) having descended
+      from his high place to mingle with the frightened throng.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Dismayed at the approach of so strange and unaccountable an object, the
+      Mandans stood their ground but a few moments; when, by an order of the
+      chiefs, all hands were ensconced within the piquets of the village, and
+      all the warriors armed for desperate defence. A few moments brought the
+      boat in front of the village, and all was still and quiet as death; not a
+      Mandan was to be seen upon the banks. The steamer was moored, and three or
+      four of the chiefs soon after, walked boldly down the bank and on to her
+      deck, with a spear in one hand and the calumet or pipe of peace in the
+      other. The moment they stepped on board, they met (to their great surprise
+      and joy) their old friend, Major Sanford, their agent, which circumstance
+      put an end to all their fears. The villagers were soon apprized of the
+      fact, and the whole race of the beautiful and friendly Mandans was paraded
+      on the bank of the river, in front of the boat.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The &ldquo;rain maker,&rdquo; whose apprehensions of a public calamity brought upon
+      the nation by his extraordinary medicine, had, for the better security of
+      his person from apprehended vengeance, secreted himself in some secure
+      place, and was the last to come forward, and the last to be convinced that
+      the visitation was a friendly one from the white people; and that his
+      medicine had not in the least been instrumental in bringing it about. This
+      information, though received by him with much caution and suspicion, at
+      length gave him much relief, and quieted his mind as to his danger. Yet
+      still in his breast there was a rankling thorn, though he escaped the
+      dreaded vengeance which he had a few moments before apprehended as at
+      hand; as he had the mortification and disgrace of having failed in his
+      mysterious operations. He set up, however, (during the day, in his
+      conversation about the strange arrival,) his medicines, as the cause of
+      its approach; asserting every where and to every body, that he knew of its
+      coming, and that he had by his magic brought the occurrence about. This
+      plea, however, did not get him much audience; and in fact, every thing
+      else was pretty much swallowed up in the guttural talk, and bustle, and
+      gossip about the mysteries of the thunder boat; and so passed the day,
+      until just at the approach of evening, when the &ldquo;White Buffalo&rsquo;s Hair,&rdquo;
+       more watchful of such matters on this occasion than most others, observed
+      that a black cloud had been jutting up in the horizon, and was almost
+      directly over the village! In an instant his shield was on his arm, and
+      his bow in his hand, and he again upon the lodge! stiffened and braced to
+      the last sinew, he stood, with his face and shield presented to the cloud,
+      and his bow drawn. He drew the eyes of the whole village upon him as he
+      vaunted forth his super-human powers, and at the same time commanding the
+      cloud to come nearer, that he might draw down its contents upon the heads
+      and the cornfields of the Mandans! In this wise he stood, waving his
+      shield over his head, stamping his foot and frowning as he drew his bow
+      and threatening the heavens, commanding it to rain&mdash;his bow was bent,
+      and the arrow drawn to its head, was sent to the clond, and he exclaimed,
+      &ldquo;My friends, it is done! Wak-a-dah-ha-hee&rsquo;s arrow has entered the black
+      clond, and the Mandans will be wet with the waters of the skies!&rdquo; His
+      predictions were true; in a few moments the clouds were over the village,
+      and the rain fell in torrents. He stood for some time wielding his weapons
+      and presenting his shield to the sky, while he boasted of his power and
+      the efficacy of his medicine, to those who had been about him, and were
+      now driven to the shelter of their wigwams. He, at length, finished his
+      vaunts and threats, and descended from his high place, (in which he had
+      been perfectly drenched,) prepared to receive the honors and the homage
+      that were due to one so potent in his mysteries; and to receive the style
+      and title of &ldquo;medicine-man.&rdquo; This is one of a hundred different modes in
+      which a man in Indian countries acquires the honorable appellation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This man had &ldquo;made it rain,&rdquo; and of course was to receive more than usual
+      honors, as he had done much more than ordinary men could do. All eyes were
+      upon him, and all were ready to admit that he was skilled in the magic
+      art; and must be so nearly allied to the Great or Evil Spirit, that he
+      must needs be a man of great and powerful influence in the nation, and was
+      entitled to the style of doctor or medicine-man.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      During the memorable night of which I have just spoken, the steamboat
+      remained by the side of the Mandan village, and the rain that had
+      commenced falling continued to pour down its torrents until midnight;
+      black thunder roared, and vivid lightning flashed until the heavens
+      appeared to be lit up with one unceasing and appalling glare. In this
+      frightful moment of consternation, a flash of lightning buried itself in
+      one of the earth-covered lodges of the Mandans, and killed a beautiful
+      girl. Here was food and fuel fresh for their superstitions; and a night of
+      vast tumult and excitement ensued. The dreams of the new-made medicine-man
+      were troubled, and he had dreadful apprehensions for the coming day; for
+      he knew that he was subject to the irrevocable decree of the chiefs and
+      doctors, who canvass every strange and unaccountable event, with close and
+      superstitious scrutiny, and let their vengeance fall without mercy upon
+      its immediate cause.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He looked upon his well-earned fame as likely to be withheld from him; and
+      also considered that his life might perhaps be demanded as the forfeit for
+      this girl&rsquo;s death, which would certainly be charged upon him. He looked
+      upon himself as culpable, and supposed the accident to have been
+      occasioned by his criminal desertion of his post, when the steamboat was
+      approaching the village. Morning came, and he soon learned from some of
+      his friends, the opinions of the wise men; and also the nature of the
+      tribunal that was preparing for him; he sent to the prairie for his three
+      horses, which were brought in, and he mounted the medicine lodge, around
+      which, in a few moments, the villagers were all assembled. &ldquo;My friends,&rdquo;
+       said he, &ldquo;I see you all around me, and I am before you; my medicine, you
+      see, is great&mdash;it is too great; I am young, and was too fast&mdash;I
+      knew not when to stop. The wigwam of Mah-siah is laid low, and many are
+      the eyes that weep for Ko-ka, (the antelope;) Wak-a-dah-ha-hee gives three
+      horses to gladden the hearts of those who weep for Ko-ka; his medicine was
+      great&mdash;his arrow pierced the black cloud, and the lightning came, and
+      the thunder-boat also! who says that the medicine of Wak-a-dah-ha-hee is
+      not strong?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      At the end of this sentence an unanimous shout of approbation ran through
+      the crowd, and the &ldquo;Hair of the White Buffalo&rdquo; descended amongst them,
+      where he was greeted by shaken of the hand; and amongst whom he now lives
+      and thrives under the familiar and honorable appellation of the &ldquo;Big
+      Double Medicine.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0065" id="linkimage-0065"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0168m.jpg" alt="0168m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0168.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0066" id="linkimage-0066"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0169m.jpg" alt="0169m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0169.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0019" id="link2H_4_0019"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE BRIDE&rsquo;S RESCUE.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0067" id="linkimage-0067"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9169.jpg" alt="9169 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9169.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      ANY years ago when the great valley of the Mississippi was rarely trodden
+      by the white men, there lived upon the southern frontier of Kentucky, then
+      nearly a wilderness, an old hunter, named Johnson. He was one of the
+      pioneers of the region in which he had built his log cabin, and had long
+      procured a comfortable subsistence for a wife and child by the aid of a
+      good rifle and his snares. Mrs. Johnson had become accustomed to the
+      privations of her situation; and her daughter, Sarah, having arrived at
+      the age of young womanhood, contributed to relieve the monotony of a life
+      in the wilderness. The cares of the family were slight. Their simple food
+      and clothing were easily procured, and their wishes for the conveniences
+      of civilized life had ceased, when it was found that they could not be
+      gratified. In short, we may say, the Johnson family lived happily in their
+      wilderness home.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sarah Johnson was about eighteen years of age, when she was first brought
+      to our notice. She was not handsome, but she was tolerably &ldquo;good looking,&rdquo;
+       and possessed a stock of good sense, which is somewhat rarer than beauty.
+      Old Johnson said she was a &ldquo;likely girl,&rdquo; and her mother thought she
+      deserved a good husband. This desert seemed to be about to receive its
+      reward. Two or three miles from Johnson&rsquo;s cabin, lived another hunter,
+      named John Blake. Like Johnson, Blake had long followed hunting for a
+      subsistence, had married, and had one child. The wife was dead; but the
+      child had grown to manhood, and Samuel Blake was now regarded as quite
+      equal to his father in hunting.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As Johnson and Blake had been very intimate friends for a long time, their
+      children were frequently thrown into each other&rsquo;s company; and a strong
+      attachment had sprung up between them. The fathers looked favorably upon
+      this perpetuation of their intimacy, and it soon became a settled matter
+      that Samuel Blake and Sarah Johnson should be man and wife.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Both the old hunters had always kept up a friendly intercourse with the
+      neighboring Indians, and many of the latter had visited the cabins and
+      partaken of their hospitalities. Johnson had obtained a great reputation
+      among the red men for his skill in hunting. His company was sought by the
+      young men of the tribe, and always with profit. Samuel Blake was also
+      regarded as a brave and skilful hunter, and admired by the Indians. Among
+      those who frequently visited Johnson&rsquo;s cabin, was young Oconostota, son of
+      the chief of the neighboring tribe. He was already distinguished as a
+      warrior and hunter, and his personal appearance was so admirable that many
+      an Indian maiden&rsquo;s heart beat high with the hope that she might be the
+      fortunate one who should share his wigwam.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But Oconostota&rsquo;s eyes and thoughts were fixed elsewhere. He had seen and
+      conversed with Sarah Johnson, and he burned with the desire to secure her
+      for his wife. Sarah could not help seeing the admiring looks he gave her
+      during his frequent visits; but she did not suspect the real state of his
+      feelings; probably, because her thoughts found occupation enough in
+      thinking of Samuel Blake.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At length, however, the young brave ventured to disclose his wishes to old
+      Johnson, during a hunting excursion, in which they were engaged together.
+      The old hunter was surprised; but considering that Oconostota might easily
+      be irritated and dangerous consequences ensue, he calmly and deliberately
+      made known to him that Sarah had long been engaged to Samuel Blake, and
+      that that engagement could not be broken.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Love cannot listen to reason. Oconostota urged his suit still further,
+      offering, with true Indian simplicity, two splendid horses for the
+      hunter&rsquo;s daughter. He increased the number to ten, but the hunter remained
+      firm, and the young brave was forced to give up entreaty. When Johnson
+      reached his cabin, he found young Blake and his father there, both having
+      been invited by Mrs. Johnson to remain and take supper with them. The
+      venison was broiling before the coals in the large fire-place, the table
+      was neatly spread, and every thing had a cheerful appearance. Oconostota
+      had refused Johnson&rsquo;s invitation to spend the evening with him, and
+      returned to his village. The hunter thought he would have done better to
+      have accepted the invitation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While old Johnson and old Blake talked over the doings of the day, and the
+      adventures of many previous ones, young Blake, Sarah, and Mrs. Johnson,
+      talked of matters less stirring, but more important to the females&mdash;cooking,
+      house-keeping, &amp;c. The pewter dishes soon received their smoking,
+      savory weight, and all seated themselves around the table. Johnson then
+      introduced the subject which had been troubling his thoughts for some time
+      previous. The whole party was informed of the proposal of Oconostota, and
+      of his rejection by the father on behalf of his daughter. The young couple
+      were both surprised, and Samuel Blake laughed outright. The old men looked
+      grave, and Mrs. Johnson troubled. They knew the Indian character well
+      enough to know that the matter would not end there. In fact, serious
+      consequences might be expected to result from the refusal.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Some discussion ensued, when old Blake recommended that Samuel and Sarah
+      should be married as soon as possible, and then conciliatory measures
+      might secure the agreement of Oconostota and his friends to what could not
+      be changed. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson agreed to this proposition, and the young
+      people almost &ldquo;jumped&rdquo; at it. Before that meal was concluded, the day for
+      the wedding was fixed, and it was arranged that the parties should proceed
+      to a settlement about ten miles from the cabin of Johnson, where the
+      ceremony would be performed. Then a new cabin was to be erected between
+      Blake&rsquo;s and Johnson&rsquo;s, spacious enough for Samuel and Sarah, and old
+      Blake.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Meanwhile, Oconostota deeply felt the sting of rejected love. He strove to
+      conquer his feelings, and thought of taking an Indian wife. But his nature
+      was too passionate, and he resolved to gain the object of his love, either
+      by fair means or foul. He visited the Johnsons several times afterwards,
+      and was informed that the wedding day had been appointed; and nothing
+      remained for him but to acquiesce, or strive to get possession of Sarah by
+      force or stratagem. His plan was soon laid.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Ascertaining the particular day upon which the wedding was to take place,
+      the young chief resolved to get the aid of a few young men of his tribe,
+      and carry off the bride the night before it. The day approached and the
+      happy couple were all joyful expectation. They believed that the wishes of
+      long years were about to be gratified. Samuel Blake spent the day before
+      the happy one, at Johnson&rsquo;s cabin, arranging with Sarah things that had
+      been arranged very frequently before; and he did not leave it until the
+      shades of evening were thickening around. Old Blake intended to remain all
+      night with Johnson, to be ready for the journey of the morrow. Sarah
+      accompanied Samuel to a considerable distance from the cabin, and he
+      reluctantly bade her adieu. She then turned to pursue her way home.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Oconostota, with his friends had been lurking around the neighborhood
+      during the afternoon. He had seen the lovers leave the cabin together, and
+      he followed them at a short distance, like a beast of prey, watching his
+      opportunity. When he saw Samuel Blake leave Sarah, he gave a signal,
+      resembling the voice of a well-known forest-bird, and collected his
+      accomplices. He then stole silently to the edge of the wood near which he
+      knew Sarah must pass, and waited for her. The young girl came on
+      trippingly, as if she had no care in the world. Suddenly, she was seized,
+      and before she could shriek, hurried into the wood. She saw the forms of
+      the red men, and guessed their object. She shrieked for help, as they
+      hurried her swiftly through the wood; but there appeared no help near. On
+      they went, until they reached the end of the wood, where the prairie
+      opened before them. Horses were waiting. The red men mounted, Oconostota
+      placing the almost fainting form of Sarah upon the horse, before him. Away
+      they went like the wind. It was a moonlight evening, and as Oconostota
+      turned to see if any one was pursuing, he caught sight of a blaze, rising
+      above the dark trees, and knew at once that one of his men, more devilish
+      than the rest, had contrived to set fire to Johnson&rsquo;s cabin. He thought he
+      heard the sound of other horses&rsquo; feet far behind; but could not
+      distinguish any one in the hasty glance he cast behind him. The sounds
+      increased, and seemed to grow nearer. Then Oconostota turned and saw the
+      forms of three mounted men urging their horses to the greatest speed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this critical moment, the young chief&rsquo;s horse stumbled and fell,
+      Oconostota, with Sarah in his arms, leaping to the ground just in time to
+      save himself from being crushed. This checked the progress of the whole
+      party, and ere Oconostota could resume his seat, he saw the pursuers were
+      close upon his party. It was in vain to think of escape by flight. The
+      Indians were six in number, and the pursuers were but three. The chances
+      were in Oconostota&rsquo;s favor. But the pursuers all had rifles, while two of
+      the Indians had only bows and arrows.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On came the hunters, and a volley was exchanged. Two of the Indians fell
+      from their horses, and it was evident that a third was seriously, if not
+      fatally wounded. Samuel Blake received an arrow in his left arm, but it
+      did not disable him. Old Johnson and Blake reloaded, and delivered their
+      fire with an unerring aim. Then they rushed upon them with their rifles,
+      clubbed and laid about them with tremendous effect. Oconostota, leaving
+      Sarah upon the horse which he had ridden, and mounted that of one of his
+      fallen friends. Young Blake soon distinguished his form and fired his
+      rifle as he rushed upon him. The shot broke the arm of the young chief,
+      but he gallantly drew his knife and closed with his antagonist. A
+      desperate struggle ensued. The young men fell to the ground almost beneath
+      the horses&rsquo; feet, and rolled over and over like wild cats in a death
+      struggle. At length Blake obtained the knife, and plunged it into the
+      breast of his foe. Then he arose to look around for his friends. But one
+      of the Indians had escaped by flight; the rest were all dead. Johnson was
+      unhurt, and standing beside his daughter&rsquo;s horse. Old Blake was wounded in
+      the shoulder, and leaning against his horse.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      No time was to be lost. The Indian who had escaped would inform his people
+      of the death of Oconostota, and a war-party might be expected to set out
+      in pursuit of them. Samuel Blake first ascertained that Sarah was unhurt,
+      then helped his father to mount his horse, and then mounted himself.
+      Johnson placed his daughter upon his horse, and the party dashed off on
+      their return. After a hard ride, they reached the edge of the wood,
+      dismounted and hurried through it with almost the speed that the Indians
+      had used in carrying off the bride. Their course was directed towards
+      Blake&rsquo;s cabin, where they intended to join Mrs. Johnson, and at once set
+      off for the settlement. They passed, near Johnson&rsquo;s cabin, and saw that it
+      was almost reduced to ashes. They arrived at Blake&rsquo;s cabin, and there
+      found Mrs. Johnson, who was filled with anxiety for the fate of her child.
+      Congratulations and tears of joy followed the meeting. But there was
+      little time for indulging in these.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Things were soon arranged for starting for the settlement, though most of
+      the party were suffering severely from fatigue. They started. We need not
+      detail the trials and dangers of that journey. They were terrible, but
+      borne with patience and fortitude. The whole party reached the settlement
+      just after daylight, were kindly received by the inhabitants, and their
+      wants supplied. Old Blake&rsquo;s wound in the shoulder was not dangerous, and
+      with the careful attention of his friends, he soon recovered. His son
+      suffered much from the wound in his arm, which was too long neglected.
+      Samuel and Sarah were married as soon as they could find it convenient to
+      seek the minister of the village.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians were for a short time much exasperated at the death of their
+      young prince and his friends; but his father was a wise and noble man. He
+      told his warriors that Oconostota had merited death by his treacherous
+      conduct; and that they would have acted in the same manner as the white
+      hunters did, had any of their children been stolen from them. He sent a
+      messenger to Johnson, professing the continuance of his friendship, and
+      inviting him and his friends to return to their homes, where he would
+      ensure their protection. After some delay, they complied with the wishes
+      of the generous chief, and returned to their cabins in the wilderness.
+      Johnson&rsquo;s old cabin was re-built; Blake removed to a clearing nearer
+      Johnson&rsquo;s, and occupied by Sarah and her husband.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It remains to be explained how the hunters received timely notice of the
+      abduction of Sarah. When Samuel Blake left her to pursue his route
+      homeward, he walked rather slowly, busy thinking of his happy future.
+      Suddenly it occurred to him, that there was one little matter he had
+      forgotten to mention to Sarah, and he returned swiftly with the hope of
+      overtaking her before she reached her house. A shriek broke on his ear
+      before he had proceeded far, and with strange conviction, he knew it came
+      from Sarah. He hurried swiftly onward, reached the cabin, and inquired for
+      Sarah. She was not there. The mother guessed the startling truth; because
+      she thought she had seen the Indians lurking near the cabin during the
+      day. Old Johnson, Blake, and Samuel grasped a rifle each; Mrs. Johnson was
+      directed to take her two bold and faithful dogs, and an extra gun, and
+      proceed towards Blake&rsquo;s cabin, where she would be safer than in her own;
+      and then the hunters hurried out, secured the horses which had been caught
+      upon the prairie and kept in a small stable near the cabin, and proceeded
+      through the wood towards the Indian village. They reached the prairie,
+      caught sight of the flying Indians, and after a hard ride and fight,
+      rescued the bride as before described.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The cabin was not set on fire until some time after the hunters had left
+      it. Mrs. Johnson possessed a bold and masculine spirit, and she ventured
+      upon her dangerous journey without fear. She met with no obstruction and
+      reached Blake&rsquo;s cabin a considerable time before the return of the
+      pursuing party. Oconostota&rsquo;s death was regretted by the young men of his
+      tribe, but his father effectually screened the white men from their
+      vengeance, and lived in peace with them until his death.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The young couple lived happily together in their forest home. Samuel Blake
+      continued to hunt for a livelihood, and his rewards were sufficient to
+      bring plenty and content to his household. He often visited the village of
+      the tribe to which Oconostota belonged, and by favors and presents soon
+      won the esteem and regard of the red men; they being fully convinced that
+      the young chief was justly punished for a wilful wrong.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0068" id="linkimage-0068"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0184m.jpg" alt="0184m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0184.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0069" id="linkimage-0069"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0186m.jpg" alt="0186m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0186.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0070" id="linkimage-0070"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0187m.jpg" alt="0187m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0187.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0020" id="link2H_4_0020"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      YONDEEGA&rsquo;S GRATITUDE.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0071" id="linkimage-0071"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9187.jpg" alt="9187 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9187.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      HE inhabitants of the settlement of Cocheeco, in New Hampshire, lived for
+      a few years in large blockhouses, well adapted for the purpose of defence
+      against the Indians. But a few of the bolder spirits, encouraged by the
+      long peace with the red men, moved their families into log houses of their
+      own construction. The furthest of the huts from the garrison was built by
+      a Mr. Bray, an Englishman. On one occasion, Mr. Bray and his wife left
+      home, leaving Rebecca, their only child, in charge of her Aunt Mary.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Little Rebecca was, of course, the pet of her aunt. When the work of the
+      house had been completed, the latter would teach the little girl some
+      mysteries of needle work, or explain some passages in the Scriptures for
+      her benefit. One day, Aunt Mary had just finished reading the verse, in
+      the fifth chapter of Matthew, which says, &ldquo;Blessed are the merciful, for
+      they shall obtain mercy,&rdquo; when an Indian burst into the room, and throwing
+      himself panting at her feet, exclaimed, in broken English, &ldquo;for mercy&rsquo;s
+      sake, hide me, the warriors are on my path.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Aunt Mary was not disposed to grant his request. In common with all the
+      early settlers, she hated and feared the Indians. But Rebecca earnestly
+      plead for him, saying that he would be killed by Major Waldron&rsquo;s men from
+      the garrison. A loud shout was heard in the distance, and the Indian
+      renewed his entreaties for a refuge. &ldquo;Blessed are the merciful, for they&mdash;shall
+      obtain mercy,&rdquo; repeated Rebecca, and Aunt Mary then expressed her wish to
+      secrete the Indian from his pursuers. The little girl then took the red
+      man by the hand, led him up into the loft, made him get into a box
+      containing shelled corn, and then spread the corn over him in such a
+      manner, that he could not be seen. She then descended, and resumed her
+      reading to Aunt Mary as if nothing had occurred. A moment after, the door
+      was burst open, and the pursuers entered, exclaiming, &ldquo;Is the villainous
+      redskin here?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The little girl expressed her surprise, and asked what redskin.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The Indian who has escaped,&rdquo; answered a youth; &ldquo;we have lost his track;
+      but Mr. Gove says he saw the top of his head through the wood, and we came
+      here.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Rebecca strove to divert their attention by saying she heard a noise, just
+      then, of something running around the house. Mr. Gove persisted in saying
+      that he believed the Indian to be in the house, and to satisfy him one of
+      the young men proposed that he should go up stairs and search for him.
+      Rebecca accompanied him. Gove searched every nook and corner of the loft,
+      and even lifted up some of the corn from the box where the Indian was
+      concealed; but at length gave it up, descended the stairs and joined his
+      friends. The pursuers then sought their victim elsewhere.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      That night, Rebecca brought the red man from his hiding-place, and making
+      him promise to spare the mothers and babes who might fall into his power,
+      let him go, with a heart filled with gratitude.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In explanation of the Indian&rsquo;s situation, we may say that the colonial
+      government, fearful of another outbreak among the Indians, and jealous of
+      their numbers, had ordered Major Waldron, the commander of the post, to
+      put the strange red men, who came there, to death, and by a stratagem, the
+      Major had succeeded in killing all but this one, who was preserved by the
+      efforts of little Rebecca.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Time flew by, and Rebecca grew to be a fine specimen of feminine maturity.
+      Her parents died, and she was left to the guardianship of Major Waldron.
+      She resided with Aunt Mary, to whose care she had been confided by a
+      mother&rsquo;s dying breath; and though the major had made many efforts to
+      convince them that the garrison was a much safer place, they still kept
+      the old house. The flower in the wilderness did not &ldquo;waste its sweetness
+      on the desert air.&rdquo; On the contrary, Rebecca&rsquo;s charms had already made
+      several captives, one of whom was the only son of Major Waldron.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      George Waldron had been educated in England, had moved in refined circles,
+      travelled three years, and returned to America, with personal advantages
+      which might have made many a conquest in the field of love. He saw Rebecca
+      soon after his arrival, and was immediately &ldquo;smitten to the heart.&rdquo; But
+      the beauty could only give him a sister&rsquo;s love; for her heart was in
+      possession of another. Morris Green had been her playmate in childhood,
+      and in riper years, her confidant and friend. They had not been formally
+      plighted, but they felt that they were united by stronger bonds than
+      words. A few days after Waldron&rsquo;s arrival, Morris saved him from the gripe
+      of a bear, that was about to spring upon him, by shooting the animal, and
+      from that time the two young men became warm, self-denying friends. A few
+      weeks after the adventure with the bear, George Waldron obtained for
+      Morris Green, a midshipman&rsquo;s warrant for his Majesty&rsquo;s frigate Cyclops,
+      then lying at Portsmouth, with orders to join the squadron in the West
+      Indies.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Morris quickly and joyfully informed Rebecca of his good fortune, and
+      prepared to start for Portsmouth. Hand-in-hand he and Rebecca visited the
+      grave-yard, where slept the remains of her loved parents. There they
+      exchanged vows of constancy, and parted sadly, though hopefully. Rebecca
+      watched he retreating form of her lover until it was lost in the forest,
+      and then, as she sank upon her mother&rsquo;s grave, her tears flowed freely.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A voice near Rebecca, exclaimed, &ldquo;A pretty scene, upon my word!&rdquo; She
+      sprang to her feet and faced the intruder. A mixture of scorn and fear was
+      upon her features, and she at length turned to fly. But the bold intruder
+      seized her hand, and said, &ldquo;Now my pretty bird, this meeting is too
+      opportune to part so soon. What with your own shyness, the constant watch
+      of that old hypocrite, Waldron, who means to coax or force you to marry
+      the sapient George, and the close attentions of that very sentimental
+      youth who has just left you, I have not the smallest chance of urging my
+      own suit.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, that can never, never be,&rdquo; answered Rebecca, hardly conscious of what
+      she said, &ldquo;for I already love another.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hear me, Rebecca,&rdquo; said the other, &ldquo;your beauty would become a higher
+      sphere than that stripling can give you to move in. At the death of my
+      father, I shall become Lord Marsden; and at the death of my uncle, who is
+      much his senior, his title of Marquis of Winchelsea will also revert to
+      me. Think how different would be your position as Marchioness of
+      Winchelsea, surrounded with wealth and splendor, than as the wife of that
+      poor boy.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have promised to become the wife of another,&rdquo; replied Rebecca, &ldquo;and I
+      would not break the promise, if I could. I can love you as a sister, but
+      never as your wife!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is enough, Rebecca,&rdquo; said the young man, &ldquo;you reject the love of a man
+      whom you could have moulded to your will. But I am not to be slighted with
+      impunity. You are in my power, and shall rue the hour when you dared to
+      scorn me.&rdquo; As he uttered these words, he sprang towards her, but stumbled
+      over the head-stone of her mother&rsquo;s grave and fell headlong; while
+      Rebecca, pale with terror, fled, and never paused until safe within the
+      cottage.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Edward Sinclair, the intruder upon Rebecca&rsquo;s privacy, had been residing at
+      Waldron&rsquo;s about a year; consigned to the Major&rsquo;s care, it was whispered,
+      by his father, as a sort of penance for certain conduct which was
+      unbecoming the future Lord of Marsden Hall. Well-informed, frank, and
+      jovial, he soon rendered himself a favorite with all those in the
+      settlement, who considered eccentricity natural to a jovial companion, and
+      did not question the justice of his acts. Being fond of hunting, Sinclair
+      soon made friends of the Indians, with whom he would hunt for weeks at a
+      time. They called him Neddo. That Sinclair was in love with Rebecca, the
+      reader may gather from his language towards her. But there was ever a
+      something evil in his nature which made her shun his presence.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A few days after Morris&rsquo;s departure, when Rebecca thought him &ldquo;far o&rsquo;er
+      the briny deep,&rdquo; she was surprised to see him enter the cottage, covered
+      with dust, and throw himself upon a chair. She and Aunt Mary expressed
+      their surprise, and asked why he was not in the frigate. In reply, he
+      handed Rebecca a letter, which, he said, would explain the matter better
+      than he could. The letter was read as follows:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     &ldquo;If Morris Green really feels but half the love he professes
+     for Rebecca Bray, he will not, by leaving the country,
+     expose her to the schemes of a crafty villain. The writer of
+     this has heard from Waldron&rsquo;s own lips that he only assisted
+     to get rid of him, and that before the frigate will have
+     joined the squadron, she will either by persuasion or force,
+     be made the wife of George Waldron. If you are wise, you
+     will act upon this warning of
+
+     &ldquo;A Secret Friend.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;At first,&rdquo; said Morris, &ldquo;I thought this all a hoax; but soon began to
+      regard it as a timely and truthful warning. I was down at the shoals last
+      week, and I knew that the ship would pass near the islands, that a good
+      swimmer could easily reach the shore, where there were two or three
+      fishing schooners anchored, which could bring me back. In the middle of
+      the night, I slipped through a port, and swam ashore. As the ship sailed
+      like a race horse, they will get so far before they miss me, they will not
+      turn back for a single man.&rdquo; Morris said much more to silence the fears of
+      his anxious friends, who at length set about preparing food for the
+      half-famished runaway, when the door opened, and Edward Sinclair rushed
+      in, crying, &ldquo;Run, Morris, run! the bloodhounds are at your heels.&rdquo; Morris
+      sprang to his feet, and rushed to the back door, which opened on the
+      forest; but Sinclair pushed him back, and in a few moments a party of men
+      entered, arrested Morris, as a deserter, and bore him off, leaving Aunt
+      Mary and Rebecca wringing their hands, and crying bitterly. As soon as
+      they had left the house, Rebecca fell on the floor in a fainting fit. When
+      she recovered, Sinclair was bending over her, with compassion and respect
+      upon his features.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sinclair explained that he had tried to put the pursuing party upon a
+      false scent, and save Morris; that the deserter would be condemned by a
+      court-martial; yet in consideration of the motive, they would certainly
+      recommend him to the mercy of his majesty; in which case he would appeal
+      to his father, whose influence he represented as all powerful at court,
+      and a pardon could easily be procured. Rebecca grasped eagerly at such a
+      hope, and began to look upon the one who held it forth as a brother.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The court-martial was held in Boston harbor; the proof of desertion was
+      positive, and Morris was sentenced to death, without a hint being given of
+      any appeal to royal mercy. Rebecca received the terrible news, as the lily
+      receives the blast of the tempest&mdash;it almost crushed her spirit. She
+      did not&mdash;could not weep until the morning of the day that was to give
+      her lover to the arms of death. Her feelings then found vent in tears. She
+      left the cottage, and walked quickly towards the house of Major Waldron,
+      where she found the old man writing. Throwing herself before him, she
+      clasped his knees, and implored him to save Morris Green. Waldron answered
+      that he could not. Morris had had a fair trial, and it would be unjust in
+      him, supposing he could, to change the verdict. Rebecca continued&mdash;&ldquo;You
+      can if you will. I know you have wished me to marry George instead of
+      Morris Green; and now I will promise, that if you will procure a pardon
+      for Morris, the day he is free from prison I will marry George.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      This chimed in with Waldron&rsquo;s schemes. It had long been his aim to bring
+      about a union between his son George and Rebecca. He snatched eagerly the
+      opportunity, and said he would try what he could do. A messenger was sent
+      in all haste to Portsmouth, and the officers composing the court-martial
+      were eagerly persuaded to reprieve the prisoner until a petition could be
+      sent to the king. But months were to pass before an answer would be
+      received, during which Morris must remain in prison, leaving the field
+      clear to his rivals.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sinclair now spent much of his time with Rebecca, who regarded him with
+      the most friendly feelings, except when he urged his suit, when a
+      revulsion of feeling made her suspect that self-interest was at the root
+      of all his vaunted service for her and Morris. As for George Waldron, his
+      feelings were in a state of confusion not to be described. He loved
+      Rebecca, deeply&mdash;devotedly; and to secure her happiness and that of
+      his friend Morris, he felt that no sacrifice could be too great. Yet he
+      hoped to make Rebecca his wife, and could not resolve to break the
+      engagement his father had made.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At length a vessel arrived, bearing a full pardon for the deserter; and
+      Major Waldron now required of Rebecca the performance of her part of the
+      contract. It was agreed that the marriage should not take place until the
+      day after Morris&rsquo;s return. Morris had been aware that a petition had been
+      sent to the king on his behalf, but he knew nothing of the terms until the
+      morning of his release, and then he felt that he would much rather have
+      died than consented to live upon such terms. However, he resolved to see
+      Rebecca once more, and then leave the country for ever.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He reached the cottage, where he expected to meet Rebecca, but found it
+      deserted, and in the utmost confusion. Surprised, he turned from the
+      cottage to seek an explanation, when a footstep caused him to raise his
+      head, and he stood face to face with George Waldron. They each grasped the
+      other&rsquo;s hand; for friendship was still strong in both.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have been very wrong and wicked,&rdquo; said George Waldron, &ldquo;but I have
+      suffered for it. Yesterday, after a long struggle, I resolved to release
+      Rebecca from an engagement, into which I knew she had been forced. I did
+      so. But now she is gone. Last night Aunt Mary awoke and found herself
+      alone; she gave the alarm, and people have hunted for lier ever since. I
+      fear she has been carried off by the Indians.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Morris was almost stunned by this unlooked for calamity. At length he
+      grasped the hand of his friend and said, &ldquo;We are friends&mdash;brothers;
+      together we will go and rescue her or share her fate.&rdquo; A slight noise at
+      this instant caused them to turn, and standing near them, his arms folded
+      on his breast, his keen eye fixed upon them, was an Indian, whom they
+      recognised as one who was often about the settlement.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Has the pale-face&rsquo;s council fire gone out, or are their braves turned
+      squaws, that the foe enters the wigwam and steals their &lsquo;Wild Rose,&rsquo; and
+      no warriors start on the trail?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Do you know any thing of Rebecca Bray,&rdquo; demanded Morris.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Yondeega&rsquo;s eyes were open. Neddo&rsquo;s trail and the Wild Rose&rsquo;s trail were
+      one.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      George started. He knew that Edward Sinclair had two days previous, joined
+      a hunting party; but he supposed that he had gone away to avoid being
+      present at Rebecca&rsquo;s nuptials. &ldquo;The false-hearted villain!&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;I
+      will follow him, and he shall yet feel the weight of my arm.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, no,&rdquo; said Yondeega, with a flashing eye and knotted brow. &ldquo;No
+      pale-face touch him. Yondeega&rsquo;s tomahawk is sharp, and his rifle never
+      fails it aim. Yondeega will kill him like a dog.&rdquo; The features of the
+      Indian then assumed an expression of sorrow. &ldquo;Yondeega had a daughter; she
+      was fair as the spring flowers, and cheerful as the song of birds. The
+      Yengese came and spake with his forked tongue, the maiden listened, and
+      her heart changed. She has left the wigwam of her tribe to follow the
+      stranger.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      From this the young men gathered that Sinclair had been as false to his
+      red as to his white friends, and having signified to the Indian that they
+      would follow where he led, they set off in pursuit of the lost flower.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Rebecca had risen early, and was taking a short walk near the cottage,
+      when she was seized and borne off by some Indians. They marched about
+      eight hours, bearing Rebecca on a rude litter, until they came to a large
+      sheet of water called Lake Winnipiseogee, where they embarked in a canoe
+      and rowed to an island, on which stood two or three deserted Indian huts.
+      In one of these, Rebecca was left, with two Indians. In a moment, the door
+      opened, and Edward Sinclair, stripped of his Indian disguise, stood before
+      her. He confessed that he had stolen her. But it was because he could not
+      live without her, and he wanted to take her to Europe with him. In vain
+      the young girl entreated, plead her attachment to another, and her want of
+      affection for Sinclair.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And do you think,&rdquo; said he fiercely, &ldquo;that I could bear to see you the
+      wife of Morris Green? It was I who advised him to desert, and who
+      attempted to prevent him from getting a pardon. But I will be revenged
+      yet. In the meantime, you are in my power, and from this place you shall
+      never go, except as my wife&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The sound of light footsteps interrupted his words, and the next instant a
+      young Indian girl, breathless with haste, rushed into the hut, exclaiming,
+      &ldquo;Fly, fly! the pale-faces are in pursuit.&rdquo; Sinclair sprang forward, as if
+      meditating flight; but a moment&rsquo;s pause seemed to alter his intention, and
+      he said, pointing to Rebecca, &ldquo;Hide her, Yarro, and I will meet them
+      here.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The young Indian frowned, as she replied, &ldquo;Yarro no hide her; pale-face no
+      hurt her.&rdquo; A deep-breathed curse escaped the young man, and a fierce
+      glance shot from his eye; but the next moment it yielded to a mild, tender
+      expression, as he spoke a few words to Yarro in her own tongue.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Yarro smilingly listened to his false words, which were, in fact, no less
+      than a promise, that if she would hide Rebecca, he would marry her, join
+      the tribe and become a great chief. She instantly advanced towards the
+      white maiden, and in spite of her struggles, bandaged her mouth, and drew
+      her into a covert close to the hut. Sinclair saw all this, and then taking
+      his rifle, he advanced to meet Morris and George, who had just emerged
+      from the forest into the clearing in front of the hut. &ldquo;What is the
+      matter, George?&rdquo; he asked.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Edward,&rdquo; demanded George, sternly, &ldquo;do you know any thing of Rebecca
+      Bray?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How can I know any thing of her?&rdquo; mildly replied Sinclair; &ldquo;you know I
+      started off to hunt the day before you were to be married but&mdash;&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The speaker paused; the bullet of Yondeega, who, having tarried behind to
+      secure the canoe, had just caught sight of his foe, had started on its
+      fatal errand; but it did not not reach its destined victim. Yarro, who saw
+      all that had passed, gave a slight scream, and throwing her arms around
+      the neck of her beloved, shielded him from danger by receiving the ball
+      herself. They laid her upon the grass. Sinclair bent over her, grief and
+      remorse painted on his features, while the rest of the party, including
+      Rebecca, who had contrived to unbandage herself, stood looking on in
+      mournful silence. Yarro opened her eyes, a smile of joy stole over her
+      features, as she met the gaze of Sinclair, and she murmured&mdash;&ldquo;Yarro
+      very happy, for the Great Spirit has smiled on her;&rdquo; and with that happy
+      smile still lingering on her features, the poor girl passed to the &ldquo;spirit
+      land.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      A moment of silence ensued, and the next, Sinclair sprang to his feet, and
+      darted into the forest, pursued by Yondeega, who soon, however, returned,
+      completely baffled. This was the last that was seen of Edward Sinclair in
+      this country; although a rumor came two years afterwards that he had
+      fallen in a duel, in England, with an officer as reckless as himself.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Yarro was buried on the island, and then the party returned to the
+      settlement. The remainder of the story is soon told. Major Waldron yielded
+      to the entreaties of Rebecca and Morris, assisted by the virtuous energy
+      of George, and consented to a union of the lovers, who amid all trials,
+      had remained true to each other. At the-wedding, among the number of pale
+      and red faces that of Yondeega was recognised, and many thanks were
+      returned to him for his generous conduct.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Pale-face no need feel grateful. Wild Rose hide Yondeega; Yondeega save
+      Wild Rose; that all,&rdquo; said the Indian. In answer to eager questioning, he
+      then informed them, that he had known of Neddo&rsquo;s designs in regard to
+      Rebecca, and as soon as he saw her upon the island, he recognised her as
+      the little girl who had saved his life, and resolved to save her. He
+      hurried to inform her friends, and the result is known. When he had
+      finished his story, Rebecca exclaimed, &ldquo;I then found mercy by the very
+      person to whom I had shown mercy.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0072" id="linkimage-0072"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0208m.jpg" alt="0208m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0208.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0073" id="linkimage-0073"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0210m.jpg" alt="0210m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0210.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0074" id="linkimage-0074"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0211m.jpg" alt="0211m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0211.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0021" id="link2H_4_0021"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE BURNING OF DEERFIELD.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0075" id="linkimage-0075"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9211.jpg" alt="9211 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9211.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      HE destruction of Deerfield, Massachusetts, during the French and Indian
+      war, which began in 1689, was one of the most daring exploits performed by
+      the Indians during that exterminating struggle. In 1703, the plan was laid
+      by the French and their savage allies, to cut off the frontier inhabitants
+      of New England, from one extremity to the other; but the design was not
+      fully executed. Though the eastern settlements from Casco to Wells were
+      destroyed, yet the western ones remained unmolested. This lulled them into
+      a fatal security. Colonel Schuyler, the noted English agent among the
+      Indians, received intelligence of a design in Canada to fall upon
+      Deerfield, he immediately informed the inhabitants of that settlement,
+      that they might prepare for an attack. The design was not carried into
+      execution during the summer, and the intelligence was considered as a
+      false alarm. But their destruction was reserved for the winter of 1704,
+      when they least expected it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Deerfield was at that time the most northerly settlement on the
+      Connecticut river, a few families at Northfield excepted. Against this
+      place, M. Yaudrieul, governor of Canada, sent out a party of about three
+      hundred French and Indians. They were put under the command of Hertel de
+      Roueville, assisted by his four brothers, all of whom had been well
+      trained in partisan warfare by their father, who had been a famous
+      partisan in former wars. They marched by way of Lake Champlain, till they
+      came to the stream, now called Onion river. Advancing up that stream till
+      they passed over Connecticut river, and travelled on the ice till they
+      came near to Deerfield.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Rev. John Williams, the minister of Deerfield, was apprehensive of
+      danger, and attempted to impress the minds of the people with a sense of
+      it; but did not succeed. Upon his application, the government of the
+      province sent twenty soldiers to aid in the defence of the town. The
+      fortifications were some slight works thrown around two or three garrison
+      houses. These were nearly covered in some places with drifts of snow.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 29th of February, Roueville and his party approached the town.
+      Hovering near it, he sent out spies to gain intelligence. The watch kept
+      the streets of the town till about two hours before day, and then,
+      unfortunately, all of them went to sleep. Roueville, perceiving all to be
+      quiet, marched silently to the attack. The snow was so high that they had
+      no difficulty in jumping over the walls of the fortification; and they
+      immediately separated into small parties so as to appear before each house
+      at the same time.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The place was completely surprised; and the foe was entering the houses
+      before the inhabitants, suspected their approach. The resistance was
+      trifling in most parts of the town, but one block-house being able to hold
+      out against the enemy. The whole settlement was in their possession in a
+      short time after their arrival. Forty-seven of the inhabitants, some of
+      whom fought bravely, were slain, and all the rest captured. For awhile,
+      the village was given up to plunder, and then, to complete the work, it
+      was set on fire. The victors, with their captives, hastily retreated an
+      hour after sunrise. A small party of the English pursued them, and a
+      skirmish ensued, in which a few were lost on both sides.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But the enemy could not be checked in their retreat.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The distance from Deerfield to Chambly, Canada, which was the nearest
+      French settlement, was about three hundred miles. The number of prisoners
+      was one hundred and twelve. Among the number was the Rev. John Williams.
+      As the Indians entered his room, he took down his pistol and presented it
+      to the breast of the foremost, but it missed fire. They then took hold of
+      him and bound him, naked as he was, and thus kept him for an hour. In the
+      meantime two of the children and a negro woman were killed. Mrs. Williams,
+      who was hardly recovered from childbed, was, with the rest, marched for
+      Canada. The second day, in wading a stream, Mrs. Williams fainted and
+      fell, but was assisted along a little further when, at the foot of a hill,
+      she began to falter, her savage master, with one blow of his tomahawk, put
+      an end to her miseries. The party was twenty-five days on its march from
+      Deerfield to Chambly. As they depended upon hunting for their support, the
+      prisoners often suffered for want of food; and the severity of the season
+      added to their trials. At length they reached Chambly, where they were
+      humanely treated by the French and their governor, Vaudrieul. At different
+      times, most of the prisoners were redeemed and returned home. Mr. Williams
+      and fifty-seven others arrived at Boston, from Quebec, in 1706. One of the
+      minister&rsquo;s daughters, Eunice, married an Indian, and became a convert to
+      the Catholic religion, which she never would consent to forsake. She
+      frequently visited her friends in New England; but uniformly persisted in
+      wearing the blanket, and counting her beads. Deerfield was rebuilt soon
+      after its destruction, and became a flourishing settlement.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0076" id="linkimage-0076"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0218m.jpg" alt="0218m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0218.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0077" id="linkimage-0077"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0219m.jpg" alt="0219m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0219.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0022" id="link2H_4_0022"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE FIRE-WATER.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0078" id="linkimage-0078"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9219.jpg" alt="9219 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9219.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      F the red men have been benefited by their intercourse with the whites,
+      they have also received much degradation from the same cause. Created with
+      strong and active physical powers, united with keen sensibility, they have
+      an innate love of excitement, of which the white man has taken advantage
+      to work their ruin. For a few bottles of any kind of ardent spirits, which
+      the Indians term &ldquo;firewater,&rdquo; keen traders have purchased the produce of
+      weeks of hunting and toil, and even the land which contains within its
+      bosom the bones of the red man&rsquo;s ancestors. How many of these noble
+      children of the woods, whose native powers of intellect rivalled those of
+      the most distinguished orators, statesmen, and warriors, among the
+      civilized nations, have become degraded in mind and weakened in body
+      through the influence of the evil spirit sent to them by the avaricious
+      and wiser white men! See Logan, whose qualities of mind, and whose
+      misfortunes have excited so much admiration and sympathy, spending the
+      evening of his days in beastly intoxication! See the mighty Sagona, more
+      widely known as Red Jacket, who maybe considered as the Demosthenes of his
+      race; whose judgment and foresight guided his nation in many an intricate
+      negotiation, and whose eloquence has been compared to the Niagara, near
+      whose thundering tumult he was reared, weakened in body and mind by the
+      &ldquo;firewater&rdquo; given him by those who feared his influence! This bane of the
+      red man has ever been extended to him by the hand of civilization; and
+      those tribes which inhabit the country nearest the citizens of the western
+      states are fast melting away under its blighting breath. Occasionally a
+      chief has arisen who despised the &ldquo;fire-water,&rdquo; and who indignantly
+      denounced those who introduced it among his people. Of one of these we are
+      about to speak.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0079" id="linkimage-0079"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0222m.jpg" alt="0222m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0222.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      Pontiac was a chief of the Ottawas, a tribe which inhabited the
+      neighborhood of Lake Erie, in the territory now included in the state of
+      Michigan. But at one time, he was the chief of a confederacy, consisting
+      of the Ottawas, Miamis, Chippewas, Wyandottes, Pot-towatomies, Missisagas,
+      Shawanese, Ottaga-mies, and Winnebagoes&mdash;all powerful tribes. Pontiac
+      was gifted with a great and noble spirit, which fitted him for command. He
+      possessed a daring courage, tempered and guided by wisdom and judgment.
+      Fertile in the invention of means to gain an end, he was generally
+      successful in his undertakings, and became a formidable enemy to the
+      whites, whose encroachments roused his hatred.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the Indian war, which broke out in 1763, which is justly denominated
+      &ldquo;Pontiac&rsquo;s War,&rdquo; the great chief appointed a commissary, and began to make
+      and issue bills of credit, all of which he carefully redeemed. He made his
+      bills or notes of bark, on which was drawn the figure of the commodity he
+      wanted for it The shape of an otter was drawn under that of the article
+      wanted, and an otter was the insignia of his nation. He had also, with
+      great sagacity, urged upon his people the necessity of dispensing entirely
+      with European commodities, of having no intercourse with the whites, and
+      of depending entirely upon their ancient modes of procuring sustenance.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Some English traders, with a considerable quantity of brandy in bottles,
+      were detected among the Indians, bartering &ldquo;fire-water&rdquo; for skins, and, by
+      order of Pontiac, brought into his presence. The noble chief stood in
+      state, gaudily dressed, and with a lofty mein, in front of his highly
+      decorated wigwam. A guard of warriors were upon each side of him, and
+      subordinate chiefs waited the command of the mighty forest king. The
+      traders were bold men, but they trembled when led into his presence. They
+      knew his power, the ferocity of the men whom he ruled, and the criminal
+      nature of the business in which they were engaged.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Pontiac spoke the English tongue sufficiently well to make himself
+      understood, and he asked the traders if they were not aware that he had
+      forbidden his people to have any intercourse with the whites, and warned
+      the latter to leave his territory. He then alluded to the many services he
+      had done the whites, and the many acts of hospitality his people had
+      performed. &ldquo;And how have you repaid them?&rdquo; continued he. &ldquo;They gave you
+      shelter and venison, and you gave them poison&mdash;fire-water, to burn
+      away their strength, and blind their eyes, so that you could cheat them
+      out of their skins and furs, and perhaps their land.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The white traders attempted to excuse themselves, by saying that they had
+      only given the Indians the liquor at their own earnest entreaty. But
+      Pontiac indignantly commanded their silence. &ldquo;You knew what the fire-water
+      could do, what it has done, and what it will do; and yet you gave it to
+      them.&rdquo; The chief raised himself to his full height. He was a tall and
+      noble-looking man. His brow was high and broad, his eye black, keen, and
+      lively, and his nose aquiline and prominent. The compressed mouth
+      expressed the firmness of his will. &ldquo;For your fault,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;you have
+      deserved a severe punishment, and were you at the mercy of many of my
+      people, death would quickly be your lot. I spare your lives now, and my
+      warriors shall conduct you safely out of my country. But if you again are
+      found upon this land, expect to burn at the stake. Go! Pontiac has said.&rdquo;
+       The white men concealed the joy which they felt at their escape from
+      death. They had expected nothing less. Pontiac directed some of his
+      warriors to accompany the traders and then retired to his wigwam. The
+      traders, once safely out of his country were very careful not to revisit
+      it while he lived. A war broke out soon after this event, in which Pontiac
+      displayed the skill and courage of a great commander. He was victorious on
+      many occasions, but was at last forced to conclude a peace, by the
+      superior numbers and discipline of the whites. His exertions could not
+      prevent his people from using the &ldquo;fire-water&rdquo; occasionally; and
+      consequently, he could not prevent their becoming weakened, and so blinded
+      to their own interest as to sell the land of their forefathers, and aid
+      the encroachments of the whites. The people whom he governed, have either
+      entirely melted away before the influence of war and the use of ardent
+      spirits, or greatly reduced in numbers, have removed far beyond the
+      Mississippi.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0080" id="linkimage-0080"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0228m.jpg" alt="0228m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0228.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0023" id="link2H_4_0023"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      FARMER&rsquo;S BROTHER.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0081" id="linkimage-0081"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9228.jpg" alt="9228 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9228.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      NECDOTES of men who have been distinguished for their bravery, whether
+      friend or foe, civilized or savage, seldom fail to excite an interest.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      During the second war with England, the Seneca nation of Indians, who
+      resided in the neighborhood of Buffalo, were employed by the American
+      government, and attached themselves to the army, then about to enter
+      Canada, under the command of General Brown. The principal chief of this
+      tribe was &ldquo;Farmer&rsquo;s Brother&rdquo;&mdash;a stout, athletic warrior. The frosts
+      of eighty winters had passed over his head; and yet he retained his
+      faculties in an eminent degree. He possessed all the ardour of his young
+      associates, and was uncommonly animated at the prospect which a fresh
+      harvest of laurels presented to his mind.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This celebrated chief, in the war between England and France, was engaged
+      in the service of the latter. He once pointed out, to the writer of this
+      account, the spot where, with a party of Indians, he lay in ambush&mdash;patiently
+      waiting the approach of a guard that accompanied the English teams,
+      employed between the Falls of Niagara and the British garrison; the fort
+      had lately surrendered to Sir William Johnson. The place selected for that
+      purpose is now known by the name of the &ldquo;Devil&rsquo;s Hole,&rdquo; and is three and a
+      half miles below the famous cataract, upon the United States side. The
+      mind can scarcely conceive a more dismal looking den. A large ravine,
+      occasioned by the falling in of the perpendicular bank, made dark by the
+      spreading branches of the birch and cedar, which had taken root below, and
+      the low murmurings of the rapids in the chasm, added to the solemn thunder
+      of the cataract itself, conspire to render the scene truly awful. The
+      English party were not aware of the dreadful fate which awaited them.
+      Unconscious of danger, the drivers were gaily whistling to their dull
+      ox-teams. On their arrival at this spot, Farmer&rsquo;s Brother and his band
+      rushed from the thicket that had concealed them, and commenced a horrid
+      butchery. So unexpected was the attack, and so completely were the English
+      deprived of all presence of mind, but a feeble resistance was made. The
+      guard, the teamsters, the oxen, and the wagons, were precipitated into the
+      gulf. But two of them escaped; a Mr. Steadman, who lived at Schlosser,
+      above the falls, being mounted on a fleet horse, made good his retreat;
+      and one of the soldiers, who was caught on the projecting root of a cedar,
+      which sustained him until&mdash;assured by the distant yells of the
+      savages&mdash;they had left the grounds. He then clambered up, and
+      proceeded to Fort Niagara, with the intelligence of this disaster. A small
+      rivulet, which pours itself down this precipice, was literally colored
+      with the blood of the vanquished&mdash;and has ever since borne the name
+      of &ldquo;The Bloody Run.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      In the war of the Revolution, Farmer&rsquo;s Brother evinced his hostility to
+      the Americans upon every occasion that occurred; and with the same zeal,
+      he engaged in the late war against his former friends&mdash;the British.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Another anecdote of this chief will show, in more glaring colors, the real
+      savage. A short time before the United States army crossed the Niagara,
+      Farmer&rsquo;s Brother chanced to observe an Indian, who had mingled with the
+      Senecas, and whom he instantly recognised, as belonging to the Mohawks&mdash;a
+      tribe living in Canada, and then employed in the enemy&rsquo;s service. He went
+      up to him, and addressed him in the Indian tongue:&mdash;&ldquo;I know you well&mdash;you
+      belong to the Mohawks&mdash;you are a spy&mdash;here is my rifle&mdash;my
+      tomahawk&mdash;my scalping knife&mdash;I give you your choice, which of
+      them shall I use?&mdash;but I am in haste!&rdquo; The young warrior, finding
+      resistance vain, chose to be despatched with the rifle. He was ordered to
+      lie upon the grass; while, with the left foot upon the breast of his
+      victim, the chief lodged the contents of the rifle into his head.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With so much of the savage, Farmer&rsquo;s Brother possessed some estimable
+      traits of character. He was as firm a friend, where he promised fidelity,
+      as a bitter enemy to those against whom he contended; and would rather
+      lose the last drop of his blood, than betray the cause he had espoused. He
+      was fond of recounting his exploits, and, savage-like, dwelt with much
+      satisfaction upon the number of scalps he had taken in his skirmishes with
+      the whites.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In company with several other chiefs, he paid a visit to General
+      Washington, who presented him with a silver medal. This he constantly
+      wore, suspended from his neck; and, so precious was the gift in his eyes,
+      that he often declared, he would lose it only with his life. Soon after
+      the battles of Chippewa and Bridgewater, this veteran paid the debt of
+      nature, at the Seneca village; and, out of respect to his bravery, he was
+      interred with military honors from the fifth regiment of United States
+      infantry.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0082" id="linkimage-0082"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0233m.jpg" alt="0233m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0233.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0083" id="linkimage-0083"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0234m.jpg" alt="0234m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0234.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0024" id="link2H_4_0024"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE PROPHET OF THE ALLEGHANY.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0084" id="linkimage-0084"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9234.jpg" alt="9234 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9234.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      N the year of 1798, one of the missionaries to the Indians of the
+      north-west was on his way from the Tuscarora settlement to the Senecas.
+      Journeying in pious meditation through the forest, a majestic Indian
+      darted from its recess, and arrested his progress. His hair was somewhat
+      changed with age, and his face marked with the deep furrows of time; but
+      his eye expressed all the fiery vivacity of youthful passion, and his step
+      was that of a warrior in the vigor of manhood.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;White man of the ocean, * whither wanderest thou?&rdquo; said the Indian.
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     * The Indians at first imagined that the white men
+     originally sprang from the sea, and that they invaded their
+     country because they had none of their own. They sometimes
+     called them in their songs, &ldquo;The froth, or white foam of the
+     ocean and this name is often applied contemptuously by the
+     savages of the north-west.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am travelling,&rdquo; replied the meek disciple of peace, &ldquo;towards the
+      dwellings of thy brethren, to teach them the knowledge of the only true
+      God, and to lead them to peace and happiness.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To peace and happiness!&rdquo; exclaimed the tall chief, while his eye flashed
+      fire&mdash;&ldquo;Behold the blessings that follow the footsteps of the white
+      man! Wherever he comes, the nations of the woodlands fade from the eye,
+      like the mists of the morning. Once over the wide forest of the
+      surrounding world our people roamed in peace and freedom; nor ever dreamed
+      of greater happiness than to hunt the beaver, the bear, and the wild deer.
+      From the furthest extremity of the great deep came the white man, armed
+      with thunder and lightning, and weapons still more pernicious. In war he
+      hunted us like wild beasts; in peace, he destroyed us by deadly liquors,
+      or yet more deadly frauds. Yet a few moons had passed away, and whole
+      nations of invincible warriors, and of hunters, that fearless swept the
+      forest and the mountain, perish, vainly opposing their triumphant
+      invaders, or quietly dwindled into slaves and drunkards&mdash;and their
+      names withered from the earth. Retire, dangerous man! Leave us all we yet
+      have left&mdash;our savage virtues, and our gods; and do not, in the vain
+      attempt to cultivate a rude and barren soil, pluck up the few thrifty
+      plants of native growth that have survived the fostering cares of the
+      people, and weathered the stormy career of their pernicious friendship.&rdquo;
+       The tall chief darted into the wood, and the good missionary pursued his
+      way with pious resolution.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He preached the only true divinity, and placed before the eyes of the
+      wondering savages the beauty of holiness, &amp;c.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The awe-struck Indians, roused by these accumulated motives&mdash;many of
+      them adopted the precepts of the missionary, as far as they could
+      comprehend them; and, in the course of eighteen months, their devotion
+      became rational, regular, and apparently permanent.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All at once, however, the little church, in which the good man was wont to
+      pen his fold, became deserted. No votary came, as usual, to listen, with
+      decent reverence, to the pure doctrines which they were accustomed to
+      hear; and only a few solitary idlers were seen, of a Sunday morning,
+      lounging about, and casting a wistful yet fearful look at their little
+      peaceful and now silent mansion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The missionary sought them out, inquired into the cause of this mysterious
+      desertion, and told them of the bitterness of hereafter to those who,
+      having once known, abandoned the religion of the only true God. The poor
+      Indians shook their heads, and informed him that the Great Spirit was
+      angry at their apostacy, and had sent a Prophet from the summit of the
+      Alleghany mountains, to warn them against the admission of new doctrines;
+      that there was to be a great meeting of the the old men soon, and the
+      Prophet would there deliver to the people the message with which he was
+      entrusted. The zealous missionary determined to be present, and to
+      confront the imposter, who was known by the appellation of the Prophet of
+      the Alleghany. He obtained permission to appear at the council, and to
+      reply to the Prophet. The 12th of June, 1802, was fixed for determining
+      whether the belief of their forefathers or that of the white men was the
+      true religion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The council-house not being large enough to contain so great an assemblage
+      of people, they met in a valley west of Seneca Lake. This valley was then
+      embowered under lofty trees. On almost every side it is surrounded With
+      high rugged hills, and through it meanders a small river.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was a scene to call forth every energy of the human heart. On a smooth
+      level, near the bank of a slow stream, under the shade of a large elm, sat
+      the chief men of the tribes, Around the circle which they formed, was
+      gathered a crowd of wondering savages, with eager looks, seeming to demand
+      the true God at the hands of their wise men. In the middle of the circle
+      sat the aged and travel-worn missionary. A few gray hairs wandered over
+      his brow; his hands were crossed on his bosom; and, as he cast his
+      hope-beaming eye to heaven, he seemed to be calling with pious fervor upon
+      the God of Truth, to vindicate his own eternal word by the mouth of his
+      servant.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      For more than half an hour there was silence in the valley, save the
+      whispering of the trees in the south wind, and the indistinct murmuring of
+      the river. Then all at once, a sound of astonishment ran through the
+      crowd, and the Prophet of the Alleghany was seen descending one of the
+      high hills. With furious and frenzied step he entered the circle, and,
+      waving his hands in token of silence, the missionary saw, with wonder, the
+      same tall chief, who, four years before, had crossed him in the Tuscarora
+      forest. The same panther-skin hung over his shoulder; the same tomahawk
+      quivered in his hand; and the same fiery and malignant spirit burned in
+      his eye. He addressed the awe-struck Indians, and the valley rung with his
+      iron-voice.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Red Men of the Woods! Hear what the Great Spirit says of his children who
+      have forsaken him!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Through the wide regions that were once the inheritance of my people&mdash;and
+      for ages they roved as free as the wild winds&mdash;resounds the axe of
+      the white man. The paths of your forefathers are polluted by the their
+      steps, and your hunting-grounds are every day wrested from you by their
+      arts. Once on the shores of the mighty ocean, your fathers were wont to
+      enjoy all the luxuriant delights of the deep. Now, you are exiles in
+      swamps, or on barren hills; and these wretched possessions you enjoy by
+      the precarious tenure of the white man&rsquo;s will. The shrill cry of revelry
+      or war, no more is heard on the majestic shores of the Hudson, or the
+      sweet banks of the silver Mohawk. There where the Indian lived and died,
+      free as the air he breathed, and chased the panther and the deer from
+      morning until evening&mdash;even there the Christian slave cultivates the
+      soil in undisturbed possession; and as he whistles behind the plough,
+      turns up the sacred remains of your buried ancestors. Have you not heard
+      at evening, and sometimes in the dead of night, those mournful and
+      melodious sounds that steal through the deep valleys, or along the
+      mountain sides,&rsquo; like the song of echo? These are the wailings of those
+      spirits whose bones have been turned up by the sacrilegious labors of the
+      white men, and left to the mercy of the rain and the tempest. They call
+      upon you to avenge them&mdash;they adjure you, by motives that rouse the
+      hearts of the brave, to wake from your long sleep, and, by returning to
+      these invaders of the grave the long arrears of vengeance, restore again
+      the tired and wandering spirits to their blissful paradise far beyond the
+      blue hills. *
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     * The answering voices heard from the caves and hollows,
+     which the Latins call echo, the Indians suppose to be the
+     wailings of souls wandering through these places.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;These are the blessings you owe to the Christians. They have driven your
+      fathers from their ancient inheritance&mdash;they have destroyed them with
+      the sword and poisonous liquors&mdash;they have dug up their bones, and
+      left them to blanch in the wind, and now they aim at completing your
+      wrongs, and insuring your destruction, by cheating you into the belief of
+      that divinity, whose very precepts they plead in justification of all the
+      miseries they have heaped upon your race.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hear me, O deluded people, for the last time!&mdash;If you persist in
+      deserting my altars&mdash;if still you are determined to listen with fatal
+      credulity to the strange pernicious doctrines of these Christian usurpers&mdash;if
+      you are unalterably devoted to your new gods and new customs&mdash;if you
+      will be the friend of the white man, and the follower of his God&mdash;my
+      wrath shall follow. I will dart my arrows of forked lightning among your
+      towns, and send the warring tempests of winter to devour you. Ye shall
+      become bloated with intemperance; your numbers shall dwindle away, until
+      but a few wretched slaves survive; and these shall be driven deeper and
+      deeper into the wild&mdash;there to associate with the dastard beasts of
+      the forest, who once fled before the mighty hunters of your tribe. The
+      spirits of your fathers shall curse you, from the shores of that happy
+      island in the great lake, where they enjoy an everlasting season of
+      hunting, and chase the wild deer with dogs swifter than the wind. Lastly,
+      I swear by the lightning, the thunder, and the tempest, that, in the space
+      of sixty moons, of all the Senecas, not one of yourselves shall remain on
+      the face of the earth.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The Prophet ended his message&mdash;which was delivered with the wild
+      eloquence of real or fancied inspiration, and, all at once, the crowd
+      seemed to be agitated with a savage sentiment of indignation against the
+      good missionary. One of the fiercest broke through the circle of old men
+      to despatch him, but was restrained by their authority.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When this sudden feeling had somewhat subsided, the mild apostle obtained
+      permission to speak, in behalf of Him who had sent him. Never have I seen
+      a more touching, pathetic figure, than this good man. He seemed past
+      sixty; his figure tall and bending, his face mild, pale, and highly
+      intellectual, and over his forehead, which yet displayed its blue veins,
+      were scattered at solitary distances, a few gray hairs. Though his voice
+      was clear, and his action vigorous, yet there was that in his looks, which
+      seemed to say his pilgrimage was soon to close for ever.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With pious fervor he described to his audience the glory, power, and
+      beneficence of the Creator of the whole universe. He told them of the pure
+      delights of the Christian heaven, and of the never-ending tortures of
+      those who rejected the precepts of the Gospel.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And, when he had concluded this part of the subject, he proceeded to place
+      before his now attentive auditors, the advantages of civilization,
+      learning, science, and a regular system of laws and morality. He
+      contrasted the wild Indian, roaming the desert in savage independence, now
+      revelling in the blood of enemies, and in his turn, the victim of their
+      insatiable vengeance, with the peaceful citizen, enjoying all the comforts
+      of cultivated life in this happy land; and only bounded in his indulgences
+      by those salutary restraints, which contribute as well to his own
+      happiness as to that of society at large. He described the husbandman,
+      enjoying, in the bosom of his family, a peaceful independence, undisturbed
+      by apprehensions of midnight surprise, plunder, and assassination; and he
+      finished by a solemn appeal to heaven, that his sole motive for coming
+      among them was the love ot his Creator and of his creatures.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As the benevolent missionary closed his appeal, Red Jacket, a Seneca chief
+      of great authority, and the most eloquent of all his nation, rose and
+      enforced the exhortations of the venerable preacher. He repeated his
+      leading arguments, and&mdash;with an eloquence truly astonishing in one
+      like him&mdash;pleaded the cause of religion and humanity. The ancient
+      council then deliberated for the space of nearly two hours; after which
+      the oldest man arose, and solemnly pronounced the result of their
+      conference&mdash;&ldquo;That the Christian God was more wise, more just, more
+      beneficent and powerful, than the Great Spirit, and that the missionary
+      who had delivered his precepts, ought to be cherished as their best
+      benefactor&mdash;their guide to future happiness.&rdquo; When this decision was
+      pronounced by the venerable old man, and acquiesced in by the people, the
+      rage of the Prophet of the Alleghany became terrible. He started from the
+      ground, seized his tomahawk, and denouncing the speedy vengeance of the
+      Great Spirit upon their whole recreant race, darted from the circle with
+      wild impetuosity, and disappeared in the shadows of the forest.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0085" id="linkimage-0085"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0247m.jpg" alt="0247m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0247.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0025" id="link2H_4_0025"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      PETER OTSAQUETTE.
+    </h2>
+    <h3>
+      ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE FORCE OF EARLY HABIT.
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0086" id="linkimage-0086"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9247.jpg" alt="9247 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9247.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      ETER OTSAQUETTE was the son of a man of consideration among the Oneida
+      Indians of New York. At the close of the Revolution, he was noticed by the
+      Marquis de Lafayette, who, to a noble zeal for liberty, united the most
+      philanthropic feelings. Viewing, therefore, this young savage with
+      peculiar interest, and anticipating the happy results to be derived from
+      his moral regeneration, he took him, though scarcely twelve years old, to
+      France. Peter arrived at that period when Louis XVI. and Maria Antoinette
+      were in the zenith of their glory. There he was taught the accomplishments
+      of a gentleman;&mdash;music, drawing, and fencing, were made familiar to
+      him, and he danced with a grace that a Vestris could not but admire. At
+      about eighteen, his separation from a country in which he had spent his
+      time so agreeably and profitably, became necessary. Laden with favors from
+      the Marquis, and the miniatures of those friends he had left behind, Peter
+      departed for America&mdash;inflated, perhaps, with the idea, that the deep
+      ignorance of his nation, with that of the Indians of the whole continent,
+      might be dispelled by his efforts, and he become the proud instrument of
+      the civilization of thousands.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Prosecuting his route to the land of his parents, he came to the city of
+      Albany; not the uncivilized savage, not with any of those marks which
+      bespoke a birth in the forest, or spent in toiling the wilds of a desert,
+      but possessing a fine commanding figure, an expressive countenance, and
+      intelligent eye, with a face scarcely indicative of the race from which he
+      was descended. He presented, at this period, an interesting spectacle; a
+      child of the wilderness was beheld about to proceed to the home of his
+      forefathers, having received the brilliant advantages of a cultivated
+      mind, and on his way to impart to the nation that owned him, the benefits
+      which civilization had given him. It was an opportunity for the
+      philosopher to contemplate, and to reflect on the future good this young
+      Indian might be the means of producing.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Shortly after his arrival in Albany&mdash;where he visited the first
+      families&mdash;he took advantage of Governor Clinton&rsquo;s journey to Fort
+      Stanwix, where a treaty was to be held with the Indians, to return to his
+      tribe. On the route, Otsaquette amused the company, among whom were the
+      French Minister, Count de Moustiers, and several gentlemen of
+      respectability, by his powers on various instruments of music. At Fort
+      Stanwix, he found himself again with the companions of his early days, who
+      saw and recognised him. His friends and relations had not forgotten him,
+      and he was welcomed to his home and to his blanket.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But that which occurred soon after his reception, led him to a too fearful
+      anticipation of an unsuccessful project; for the Oneidas, as if they could
+      not acknowledge Otsaquette, attired in the dress with which he appeared
+      before them, a mark which did not disclose his nation, and, thinking that
+      he had assumed it, as if ashamed of his own native costume, the garb of
+      his ancestors, they tore it from him with a savage avidity, and a
+      fiend-like ferociousness, daubed on the paint to which he had been so long
+      unused, and clothed him with the uncouth habiliments held sacred by his
+      tribe. Their fiery ferocity, in the performance of the act, showed but too
+      well the bold stand they were about to take against the innovations they
+      supposed Otsaquette was to be the agent for affecting against their
+      immemorial manners and customs, and which from the venerable antiquity of
+      their structure, it would be nothing short of sacrilege to destroy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thus the reformed savage was taken back again to his native barbarity,
+      and, as if to cap the climax of degradation to a mind just susceptible of
+      its own powers, was married to a squaw.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      From that day Otsego was no longer the accomplished Indian, from whom
+      every wish of philanthrophy was expected to be realized. He was no longer
+      the instrument by whose power the emancipation of his countrymen from the
+      thraldom of ignorance and superstition, was to be effected. From that day
+      he was an inmate of the forest; was once more buried in his original
+      obscurity, and his nation only viewed him as an equal. Even a liberal
+      grant from the state, failed of securing to him that superior
+      consideration among them which his civilization had procured for him with
+      the rest of mankind. The commanding pre-eminence acquired from
+      instruction, from which it was expected ambition would have sprung up, and
+      acted as a double stimulant, from either the natural inferiority of the
+      savage mind, or the predetermination of his countrymen, became of no
+      effect, and, in a little time, was wholly annihilated. Otsaquette was
+      lost. His moral perdition began from the hour he left Fort Stanwix. Three
+      short months had hardly transpired, when intemperance had marked him as
+      her own, and soon hurried him to the grave. And, as if the very transition
+      had deadened the finer feelings of his nature, the picture given him by
+      the Marquis&mdash;the very portrait of his affectionate friend and
+      benefactor himself&mdash;he parted with.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Extraordinary and unnatural as the conduct of this uneducated savage may
+      appear, the anecdote is not of a kind altogether unique; which proves,
+      that little or nothing is to be expected from conferring a literary
+      education upon the rude children of the forest: An Indian named George
+      White-Eyes, was taken, while a boy, to the college at Princeton, where he
+      received a classical education. On returning to his nation, he made some
+      little stay in Philadelphia, where he was introduced to some genteel
+      families. He was amiable in his manners, and of modest demeanor, without
+      exhibiting any trait of the savage whatever; but, no sooner had he
+      rejoined his friends and former companions, in the land of his nativity,
+      than he dropped the garb and manner of civilization, and resumed those of
+      the savage, and drinking deep of the intoxicating cup, soon put a period
+      to his existence.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Many other instances might be adduced to show how ineffectual have been
+      the attempts to plant civilization on savage habits, by means of literary
+      education&mdash;&ldquo;Can the leopard change his spots?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0087" id="linkimage-0087"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0254m.jpg" alt="0254m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0254.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0026" id="link2H_4_0026"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      PERFIDY PUNISHED.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0088" id="linkimage-0088"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9254.jpg" alt="9254 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9254.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      N the early part of the revolutionary war, a sergeant and twelve armed
+      men, undertook a journey through the wilderness of New Hampshire. Their
+      situation was remote from any settlements, and they were under the
+      necessity of encamping over night in the woods. In the early part of the
+      struggle for independence, the Indians were numerous, and did not stand
+      idle spectators to a conflict carried on with so much zeal and ardour by
+      the whites. Some tribes were friendly to our cause, while many upon our
+      borders took part with the enemy, and were very troublesome in their
+      savage manner of warfare,&mdash;as was often learned from the woful
+      experience of their midnight depredations. The leader of the above
+      mentioned party was well acquainted with the different tribes, and&mdash;from
+      much intercourse with them, previous to the war&mdash;was not ignorant of
+      the idiom, physiognomy, and dress, of each; and, at the commencement of
+      hostilities, was informed for which party they had raised the hatchet.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Nothing material happened, the first day of their excursion; but early in
+      the afternoon of the second, they from an eminence, discovered a body of
+      armed Indians advancing towards them, whose number rather exceeded their
+      own. As soon as the whites were perceived by their red brethren, the
+      latter made signals, and the two parties approached each, other in an
+      amicable manner. The Indians appeared to be much gratified with meeting
+      the sergeant and his men, whom, they observed, they considered as their
+      protectors; said they belonged to a tribe which had raised the hatchet
+      with zeal, in the cause of liberty, and were determined to do all in their
+      power to injure the common enemy. They shook hands in friendship, and it
+      was, &ldquo;How d&rsquo;ye do, <i>pro?</i>&rdquo; that being their pronunciation of the word
+      brother. When they had conversed with each other for some time, and
+      exchanged mutual good wishes, they separated, and each party travelled in
+      different directions. After proceeding a mile or more, the sergeant halted
+      his men, and addressed them in the following words:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;My brave companions! we must use the utmost caution, or this night may be
+      our last. Should we not make some extraordinary exertion to defend
+      ourselves, to-morrow&rsquo;s sun may find us sleeping, never to wake. You are
+      surprised, comrades, at my words, and your anxiety will not be lessened,
+      when I inform you, that we have just passed our inveterate foe, who, under
+      the mask of pretended friendship you have witnessed, would lull us into
+      fancied security, and, by such means, in the unguarded moments of our
+      midnight slumber, without resistance, seal out fate!&rdquo; The men were
+      astonished at this harangue, for they supposed the party they had
+      encountered were friends. They resolved for their own preservation to
+      adopt the following scheme: Their night&rsquo;s encampment was near a stream.
+      They felled a large tree, before which a brilliant fire was made, and each
+      individual cut a log of wood the size of his body, rolled it into his
+      blanket, and placed it before the fire, that the enemy might take it for a
+      man. The fire was kept burning until near midnight, when it was expected
+      an attack would be made. Soon a tall Indian was seen through the
+      glimmering fire, cautiously moving towards them. His actions showed that
+      he was suspicious of a guard being posted to give an alarm; but finding
+      all quiet, he moved forward, and was seen to move his finger as he
+      numbered each log, or, what he supposed to be a man asleep. To satisfy
+      himself as to the number, he recounted them, and retired. A second Indian
+      went through the same movements.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The whole party, sixteen in number, now cautiously advanced, and eagerly
+      eyeing their supposed victims. The sergeant&rsquo;s party could scarcely be
+      restrained from firing upon them; but the plan was to remain silent until
+      the guns of the savages were discharged, so that their own might be more
+      effectual.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Their suspense was short. The Indians approached, till within a short
+      distance; they then halted, took deliberate aim, fired upon the logs, and
+      rushed forward with scalping knife, to take the scalps of the dead. As
+      soon as they were collected in a close body, more effectually to execute
+      their horrid intentions, the party of the sergeant, with unerring aim,
+      discharged their muskets upon the savages; not one of whom escaped
+      destruction.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0089" id="linkimage-0089"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0260m.jpg" alt="0260m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0260.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0090" id="linkimage-0090"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0261m.jpg" alt="0261m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0261.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <h3>
+      ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE,
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF THE WARS WITH THE INDIANS ON THE OHIO, WRITTEN BY
+      HIMSELF.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0091" id="linkimage-0091"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9261.jpg" alt="9261 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9261.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      T was on the first of May, 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness,
+      and left my family and peaceful habitation on the Yadkin river, in North
+      Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the
+      country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph
+      Holden, James Monay, and William Cool.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 7th of June, after travelling in a western direction, we found
+      ourselves on Red River, where John Finley, had formerly been trading with
+      the Indians, and from the top of an eminence saw with pleasure the
+      beautiful level of Kentucky. For some time we had experienced the most
+      uncomfortable weather. We now encamped, made a shelter to defend us from
+      the inclement season, and began to hunt and reconnoitre the country. We
+      found abundance of beasts in this vast forest. The buffaloes were more
+      numerous than cattle on their settlements, browsing on the leaves of the
+      cane, or cropping the herbage on these extensive plains. We saw hundreds
+      in a drove, and the numbers around the salt springs were amazing. In this
+      forest, the habitation of beasts of every American kind, we hunted with
+      great success until December.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0092" id="linkimage-0092"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0263m.jpg" alt="0263m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0263.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      On the 22d of December, John Stuart and I had a pleasing ramble; but
+      fortune changed the day at the close of it. We passed through a great
+      forest, in which stood myriads of trees, some gay with blossoms, others
+      rich with fruits. Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of
+      delight. Here she displayed her ingenuity and industry in a variety of
+      flowers and fruits, beautifully colored, elegantly shaped, and charmingly
+      flavored; and we were favored with numberless animals presenting
+      themselves perpetually to our view. In the decline of the day, near
+      Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of
+      Indians rushed out of a cane brake and made us prisoners.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians plundered us and kept us in confinement seven days. During
+      this time we discovered no uneasiness or desire to escape, which made them
+      less suspicious; but in the dead of night, as we lay by a large fire in a
+      thick cane brake, when sleep had locked up their senses, my situation not
+      disposing me to rest, I gently awoke my companion. We seized this
+      favorable opportunity and departed; directing our course towards the old
+      camp, but we found it plundered and our company destroyed or dispersed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      About this time as my brother with another adventurer, who came to explore
+      the country shortly after us, were wandering through the forest, they
+      accidentally found our camp. Notwithstanding our unfortunate
+      circumstances, and our dangerous situation, surrounded by hostile savages,
+      our meeting fortunately in the wilderness gave us the most sensible
+      satisfaction.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Soon after this, my companion in captivity, John Stuart, was killed by the
+      savages, and the man who came with my brother, while on a private
+      excursion, was soon after attacked and killed by the wolves. We were now
+      in a dangerous and helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death,
+      among savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but
+      ourselves.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Although many hundred miles from our families, in the howling wilderness,
+      we did not continue in a state of indolence, but hunted every day, and
+      prepared a little cottage to defend us from the winter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0093" id="linkimage-0093"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0267m.jpg" alt="0267m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0267.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      On the 1st of May, 1770, my brother returned home for a new recruit of
+      horses and ammunition; leaving me alone, without salt, bread, or sugar, or
+      even a horse or a dog. I passed a few days uncomfortably. The idea of a
+      beloved wife and family, and their anxiety on my account, would have
+      disposed me to melancholy if I had further indulged in the thought.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One day I undertook a tour through the country, when the diversity and
+      beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every
+      gloomy thought. Just at the close of the day, the gentle gales ceased; a
+      profound calm ensued; not a breath shook the tremulous leaf. I had gained
+      the summit of a commanding ridge, and looking around with astonishing
+      delight, beheld the ample plains and beauteous tracts below. On one hand I
+      surveyed the famous Ohio rolling in silent dignity, and marking the
+      western boundary of Kentucky with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast
+      distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows and penetrate
+      the clouds, All things were still. I kindled a fire near a fountain of
+      sweet water, and feasted on the line of a buck which I had killed a few
+      hours before. The shades of night soon overspread the hemisphere, and the
+      earth seemed to gasp after the hovering moisture. At a distance I
+      frequently heard the hideous yells of savages. My excursion had fatigued
+      my body and amused my mind. I laid me down to sleep, and awoke not until
+      the sun had chased away the night. I continued this tour, and in a few
+      days explored a considerable part of the country, each day equally
+      pleasing as the first. After which I returned to my old camp, which had
+      not been disturbed in my absence. I did not confine my lodging to it, but
+      often reposed in thick cane brakes to avoid the savages, who I believe
+      frequently visited my camp, but fortunately for me in my absence. No
+      populous city, with all its varieties of commerce and stately structures,
+      could afford such pleasure to my mind, as the beauties of nature which I
+      found in this country.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0094" id="linkimage-0094"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0269m.jpg" alt="0269m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0269.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      Until the 27th of July, I spent my time in an uninterrupted scene of
+      sylvan pleasures, when my brother, to my great felicity, met me, according
+      to appointment, at our old camp. Soon after we left the place and
+      proceeded to Cumberland river, reconnoitring that part of the country, and
+      giving names to the different rivers.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In March, 1771, I returned home to my family, being determined to bring
+      them as soon as possible, at the risk of my life and fortune, to reside in
+      Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On my return I found my family in happy circumstances. I sold my farm on
+      the Yadkin, and what goods we could not carry with us, and on the 25th of
+      September, 1773, we took leave of our friends, and proceeded on our
+      journey to Kentucky, in company with five more families, and forty men
+      that joined us in Powel&rsquo;s Valley, which is one hundred and fifty miles
+      from the new settled parts of Kentucky. But this promising beginning was
+      soon overcast with a cloud of adversity.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 10th of October, the rear of our company was attacked by a party of
+      Indians; who killed six, and wounded one man. Of these my eldest son was
+      one that fell in the action. Though we repulsed the enemy, yet this
+      unhappy affair scattered our cattle and brought us into extreme
+      difficulty. We returned forty miles to the settlement on Clench river. We
+      had passed over two mountains, Powel&rsquo;s and Walden&rsquo;s, and were approaching
+      Cumberland mountain, when this adverse fortune overtook us.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0095" id="linkimage-0095"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0271m.jpg" alt="0271m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0271.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      These mountains are in the wilderness, in passing from the old settlement
+      in Virginia to Kentucky; are ranged in a south-west and north-east&rsquo; 
+      direction; are of great length and breadth, and not far distant from each
+      other. Over them nature has formed passes less difficult than might be
+      expected from the view of such huge piles. The aspect of these cliffs is
+      so wild and horrid, that it is impossible to behold them without horror.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Until the 6th of June, 1774, I remained with my family on the Clench, when
+      myself and another person were solicited by Governor Dunmore, of Virginia,
+      to conduct a number of surveyors to the Falls of Ohio. This was a tour of
+      eight hundred miles, and took sixty-two days.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On my return, Governor Dunmore gave me the command of three garrisons
+      during the campaign against the Shawanese. In March, 1775, at the
+      solicitation of a number of gentlemen of North Carolina, I attended their
+      treaty at Wataga with the Cherokee Indians, to purchase the lands on the
+      south side of Kentucky river. After this, I undertook to mark out a road
+      in the best passage from the settlements through the wilderness to
+      Kentucky.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0096" id="linkimage-0096"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0273m.jpg" alt="0273m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0273.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      Having collected a number of enterprising men, well armed, I soon began
+      this work. We proceeded until we came within fifteen miles of where
+      Boonesborough now stands, where the Indians attacked us, and killed two
+      and wounded two more of our party. This was on the 22d of March, 1775. Two
+      days after we were again attacked by them, when we had two more killed and
+      three wounded. After this we proceeded on to Kentucky river without
+      opposition.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0097" id="linkimage-0097"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0274m.jpg" alt="0274m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0274.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      On the 1st of April we began to erect the fort of Boonesborough, at a salt
+      lick sixty yards from the river, on the south side. On the 4th, the
+      Indians killed one of our men. On the 14th of June, having completed the
+      fort, I returned to my family on the Clench, and whom I soon after removed
+      to the fort. My wife and daughter were supposed to be the first white
+      women that ever stood on the banks of Kentucky river.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 24th of December, the Indians killed one of our men and wounded
+      another; and on the 15th of July, 1776, they took my daughter prisoner. I
+      immediately pursued them with eight men, and on the 16th overtook and
+      engaged them. I killed two of them, and recovered my daughter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians having divided themselves into several parties, attacked in
+      one day all our infant settlements and forts, doing a great deal of
+      damage. The husbandmen were ambushed and unexpectedly attacked while
+      toiling in the field. They continued this kind of warfare until the 15th
+      of April, 1777, when nearly one hundred of them attacked the village of
+      Boonesborough, and killed a number of its inhabitants. On the 16th Colonel
+      Logan&rsquo;s fort was attacked by two hundred Indians. There were only thirteen
+      men in the fort, of whom the enemy killed two and wounded one.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 20th of August, Colonel Bowman arrived with one hundred men from
+      Virginia, with which additional force we had almost daily skirmishes with
+      the Indians, who began now to learn the superiority of the &ldquo;long knife,&rdquo;
+       as they termed us the Virginians; being outgeneraled in almost every
+      action. Our affairs began now to wear a better aspect, the Indians no
+      longer daring to face us in open field, but sought private opportunities
+      to destroy us.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 7th of February, 1778, while on a hunting excursion alone, I met a
+      party of one hundred and two Indians and two Frenchmen, marching to attack
+      Boonesborough. They pursued and took me prisoner, and conveyed me to Old
+      Chilicothe, the principal Indian town on Little Miami, where we arrived on
+      the 18th of February, after an uncomfortable journey. On the 10th of March
+      I was conducted to Detroit, and while there, was treated with great
+      humanity by Governor Hamilton, the British commander, at that post, and
+      intendant for Indian affairs.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians had such an affection for me that they refused one hundred
+      pounds sterling offered them by the governor, if they would consent to
+      leave me with him, that he might be enabled to liberate me on my parole.
+      Several English gentlemen then at Detroit, sensible of my adverse fortune,
+      and touched with sympathy, generously offered to supply my wants, which I
+      declined with many thanks, adding that I never expected it would be in my
+      power to recompense such unmerited generosity.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 10th of April, the Indians returned with me to Old Chilicothe, were
+      we arrived on the 25th. This was a long and fatiguing march, although
+      through an exceeding fertile country, remarkable for springs and streams
+      of water. At Chilicothe I spent my time as comfortably as I could expect;
+      was adopted according to their custom, into a family where I became a son,
+      and had a great share in the affection of my new parents, brothers,
+      sisters, and friends. I was exceedingly familiar and friendly with them,
+      always appearing as cheerful and contented as possible, and they put great
+      confidence in me. I often went a hunting with them, and frequently gained
+      their applause for my activity at our shooting matches. I was careful not
+      to exceed many of them in shooting, for no people are more envious than
+      they in this sport. I could observe in their countenances and gestures the
+      greatest expressions of joy, when they exceeded me, and when the reverse
+      happened, of envy. The Shawanese king took great notice of me, and treated
+      me with profound respect and entire friendship, often entrusting me to
+      hunt at my liberty. I frequently returned with the spoils of the woods,
+      and as often presented some of what I had taken to him, expressive of duty
+      to my sovereign. My food and lodging was in common with them, not so good
+      indeed as I could desire, but necessity made every thing acceptable.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      I now began to meditate an escape, and carefully avoided giving suspicion.
+      I continued at Chilicothe until the 1st day of June, when I was taken to
+      the salt springs on the Sciota, and there employed ten days in the
+      manufacturing of salt. During this time I hunted with my Indian masters,
+      and found the land, for a greats extent about this river, to exceed the
+      soil of Kentucky.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On my return to Chilicothe, one hundred and fifty of the choicest warriors
+      were ready to march against Boonesborough. They were painted and armed in
+      a frightful manner. This alarmed me, and I determined to escape.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 18th of June, before sun rise, I went off secretly, and reached
+      Boonesborough on the 20th, a journey of one hundred and sixty miles,
+      during which I had only one meal. I found our fortress in a bad state, but
+      we immediately repaired our flanks, gates, and posterns, and formed double
+      bastions, which we completed in ten days. One of my fellow, prisoners
+      escaped after me, and brought advice that on account of my flight the
+      Indians had put off their expedition for three weeks.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      About the first of August I set out with nineteen men, to surprise Point
+      Creek Town, on Sciota, within four miles of which we fell in with forty
+      Indians, going against Boonesborough. We attacked them and they soon gave
+      way without any loss on our part. The enemy had one killed and two
+      wounded. We took three horses and all their baggage. The Indians having
+      evacuated their town, and gone altogether against Boonesborough, we
+      returned, passed them on the 6th, and on the 7th arrived safe at
+      Boonesborough.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 9th the Indian army, consisting of four hundred and forty-four men,
+      under the command of Captain Duquesne, and eleven other Frenchmen and
+      their own chiefs, arrived and summoned the fort to surrender. I requested
+      two days&rsquo; consideration, which was granted. During this we brought in
+      through the posterns all the horses and other cattle we could collect.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 9th, in the evening, I informed their commander that we were
+      determined to defend the fort while a man was living. They then proposed a
+      treaty, they would withdraw. The treaty was held within sixty yards of the
+      fort, as we suspected the savages. The articles were agreed to and signed;
+      when the Indians told us it was their-custom for two Indians to shake
+      hands with every white man in the treaty, as an evidence of friendship. We
+      agreed to this also. They immediately grappled us to take us prisoners,
+      but we cleared ourselves of them, though surrounded by hundreds, and
+      gained the fort safe, except one man, who was wounded by a heavy fire from
+      the enemy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0098" id="linkimage-0098"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0282m.jpg" alt="0282m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0282.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      The savages now began to undermine the fort, beginning at the water mark
+      of the Kentucky river, which is sixty yards from the fort; this we
+      discovered by the water being muddy by the clay. We countermined them by
+      cutting a trench across their subterraneous passage. The enemy discovering
+      this by the clay we threw out of the fort, desisted. On the 20th of
+      August, they raised the siege, during which we had two men killed and four
+      wounded. We lost a number of cattle. The enemy had thirty-seven killed,
+      and a much larger number wounded. We picked up one hundred and twenty-five
+      pounds of their bullets, besides what stuck in the logs of the fort.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In July, 1779, during my absence, Colonel Bowman, with one hundred and
+      sixty men, went against the Shawanese of Old Chilicothe. He arrived
+      undiscovered. A battle ensued which lasted until ten in the morning, when
+      Colonel Bowman retreated thirty miles. The Indians collected all their
+      strength and pursued him, when another engagement ensued for two hours,
+      not to Colonel Bowman&rsquo;s advantage. Colonel Harrod proposed to mount a
+      number of horses, and break the enemy&rsquo;s line, who at this time fought with
+      remarkable fury. This desperate measure had a happy effect, and the
+      savages fled on all sides. In these two engagements we had nine men killed
+      and one wounded. The enemy&rsquo;s loss uncertain. Only two scalps were taken.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      June 23d, 1780, five hundred Indians and Canadians, under Colonel Bird,
+      attacked Riddle and Martin&rsquo;s station, on the forks of Licking river, with
+      six pieces of artillery. They took all the inhabitants captives, and
+      killed one man and two women, loading the others with the heavy baggage,
+      and such as failed in the journey were tomahawked.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The hostile disposition of the savages caused General Clark, the
+      commandant at the Falls of Ohio, to march with his regiment and the armed
+      force of the country against Peccaway, the principal town of the
+      Shawa-nese, on a branch of the Great Miami, which he attacked with great
+      success, took seventy scalps, and reduced the town to ashes, with the loss
+      of seventeen men.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      About this time I returned to Kentucky with my family; for during my
+      captivity, my wife thinking me killed by the Indians, had transported my
+      family and goods on horses through the wilderness, amidst many dangers, to
+      her father&rsquo;s house in North Carolina.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 6th of October, 1780, soon after my settling again at
+      Boonesborough, I went with my brother to the Blue Licks, and on our return
+      he was shot by a party of Indians, who followed me by the scent of a dog,
+      which I shot and escaped. The severity of the winter caused great distress
+      in Kentucky, the enemy during the summer having destroyed most of the
+      corn. The inhabitants lived chiefly on buffalo&rsquo;s flesh.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the spring of 1782, the Indians harassed us. In May, they ravished,
+      killed, and scalped a woman and her two daughters, near Ashton&rsquo;s station,
+      and took a negro prisoner. Captain Ashton pursued them with twenty-men,
+      and in an engagement which lasted two hours, his party were obliged to
+      retreat, having eight killed, and four mortally wounded. Their brave
+      commander fell in the action.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      August 18th, two boys were carried off from Major Hoy&rsquo;s station. Captain
+      Holden pursued the enemy with seventeen men, who were also defeated, with
+      the loss of seven killed and two wounded. Our affairs became more and more
+      alarming. The savages infested the country and destroyed the whites as
+      opportunity presented. In a field near Lexington, an Indian shot a man,
+      and running to scalp him, was himself shot from the fort, and fell dead
+      upon the ground. All the Indian nations were now united against us.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      August 10th, five hundred Indians and Canadians came against Briat&rsquo;s
+      station, five miles from Lexington. They assaulted the fort and all the
+      cattle round it; but being repulsed, they retired the third day, having
+      about eighty killed; their wounded uncertain. The garrison had four killed
+      and nine wounded.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      August 18th, Colonels Todd and Trigg, Major Harland and myself, speedily
+      collected one hundred and seventy-six men, well armed, and pursued the
+      savages. They had marched beyond the Blue Lick, to a remarkable bend of
+      the main fork of Licking river, about forty-three miles from Lexington,
+      where we overtook them on the 19th. The savages observing us, gave way,
+      and we being ignorant of their numbers, passed the river. When they saw
+      our proceedings, having greatly the advantage in situation, they formed
+      their line of battle from one end of Licking to the other, about a mile
+      from the Blue Licks. The engagement was close and warm for about fifteen
+      minutes, when we being overpowered by numbers, were obliged to retreat,
+      with the loss of seventy-seven men, seven of whom were taken prisoners.
+      The brave and much lamented Colonels Todd and Trigg, Major Harland, and my
+      second son were among the dead. We were afterwards informed that the
+      Indians on numbering their dead, finding that they had four more killed
+      than we, four of our people that they had taken were given up to their
+      young warriors, to be put to death after their barbarous manner.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On our retreat we were met by Colonel Logan, who was hastening to join us
+      with a number of well armed men. This powerful assistance we wanted on the
+      day of battle. The enemy said one more fire from us would have made them
+      give way.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      I cannot reflect upon this dreadful scene, without great sorrow. A zeal
+      for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action,
+      though with a few men, to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
+      When we gave way, they pursued us with the utmost eagerness, and in every
+      quarter spread destruction. The river was difficult to cross, and many
+      were killed in the fight, some just entering the river, some in the water,
+      and others after crossing, in ascending the cliffs. Some escaped on
+      horseback, a few on foot; and being dispersed every where, in a few hours,
+      brought the melancholy news of this unfortunate battle to Lexington. Many
+      widows were made. The reader may guess what sorrow filled the hearts of
+      the inhabitants, exceeding any thing that I am able to describe. Being
+      reinforced, we returned to bury the dead, and found their bodies strewed
+      everywhere, cut and mangled in a dreadful manner. This mournful scene
+      exhibited a horror almost unparalleled: some torn and eaten by wild
+      beasts; those in the river eaten by fishes; and all in such a putrid
+      condition that no one could be distinguished from another.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0099" id="linkimage-0099"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0289m.jpg" alt="0289m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0289.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0100" id="linkimage-0100"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0292m.jpg" alt="0292m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0292.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      When General Clark, at the Falls of the Ohio, heard of our disaster, he
+      ordered an expedition to pursue the savages. We overtook them within two
+      miles of their town, and we should have obtained a great victory had not
+      some of them met us when about two hundred poles from their camp. The
+      savages fled in the utmost disorder, and evacuated all their towns. We
+      burned to ashes Old Chilicothe, Peccaway, New Chilicothe, and Wills Town;
+      entirely destroyed their corn and other fruits, and spread desolation
+      through their country. We took seven prisoners and fifteen scalps, and
+      lost only four men, two of whom were accidentally killed by ourselves.
+      This campaign dampened the enemy, yet they made secret incursions.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In October, a party attacked Crab Orchard, and one of them being a good
+      way before the others, boldly entered a house in which were only woman and
+      her children, and a negro man. The savage used no violence, but attempted
+      to carry off the negro, who happily proved too strong for him, and threw
+      him on the ground, and in the struggle the woman cut off his head with an
+      axe, whilst her daughter shut the door. The savages instantly came up and
+      applied their tomahawks to the door, when the mother putting an old rusty
+      gun barrel through the crevices, the savages immediately went off.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      From that time till the happy return of peace between the United States
+      and Great Britain, the Indians did us no mischief. Soon after this the
+      Indians desired peace.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Two darling sons and a brother I have lost by savage hands, which have
+      also taken from me forty valuable horses, and abundance of cattle. Many
+      dark and sleepless nights have I spent, separated from the cheerful
+      society of men, scorched by the summer&rsquo;s sun, and pinched by the winter&rsquo;s
+      cold, an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0101" id="linkimage-0101"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0293m.jpg" alt="0293m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0293.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0027" id="link2H_4_0027"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      ADVENTURE OF GENERAL PUTNAM.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0102" id="linkimage-0102"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9293.jpg" alt="9293 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9293.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      N the month of August, 1758, five hundred men were employed, under the
+      orders of Majors Rogers and Putnam, to watch the French and Indians, near
+      Ticonderoga. At South Bay, they separated the party into two equal
+      divisions, and Rogers took a position on Wood creek, twelve miles distant
+      from Putnam.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Upon being, sometime afterwards, discovered, they formed a re-union, and
+      concerted measures for returning to Fort Edward. Their march through the
+      woods, was in three divisions, by files, the right commanded by Rogers,
+      the left by Putnam, and the centre by Captain D&rsquo;Ell. The first night they
+      encamped on the banks of Clear river, about a mile from old Fort Ann,
+      which had been formerly built by General Nicholson.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Next morning, Major Rogers and a British officer, named Irwin,
+      incautiously suffered themselves, from a spirit of false emulation, to be
+      engaged in firing at a mark. Nothing could have been more repugnant to the
+      military principles of Putnam than such conduct, or reprobated by him in
+      more pointed terms. As soon as the heavy dew which had fallen the
+      preceding night would permit, the detachment moved in one body, Putnam
+      being in front, D&rsquo;Ell in centre, and Rogers in the rear. The impervious
+      growth of shrubs, and underbrush, that had sprung up, where the land had
+      been partially cleared some years before, occasioned this change in the
+      order of march. At the moment of moving, the famous French partisan,
+      Molang, who had been sent with five hundred men, to intercept our party,
+      was not more than a mile and a half distant from them. Having heard the
+      firing, he hastened to lay an ambuscade precisely in that part of the wood
+      most favorable to his project. Major Putnam was just emerging from the
+      thicket, into the common forest, when the enemy rose, and with discordant
+      yells and whoops, commenced an attack upon the right of his division.
+      Surprised, but undismayed, Putnam halted, returned the fire, and passed
+      the word for the other divisions to advance for his support. D&rsquo;Ell came.
+      The action, though widely scattered, and principally fought between man
+      and man, soon grew general and intensely warm. It would be as difficult as
+      useless to describe this irregular and ferocious mode of fighting. Rogers
+      came not up; but, as he declared afterwards, formed a circular file
+      between our party and Wood creek, to prevent their being taken in rear or
+      enfiladed. Successful as he commonly was, his conduct did not always pass
+      without unfavorable imputation. Notwithstanding, it was a current saying
+      in the camp, &ldquo;that Rogers always <i>sent</i>, but Putnam <i>led</i> his
+      men to action,&rdquo;&mdash;yet, in justice, it ought to be remarked here, that
+      the latter has never been known, in relating the story of this day&rsquo;s
+      disaster, to fix any stigma upon the conduct of the former.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Major Putnam, perceiving it would be impracticable to cross the creek,
+      determined to maintain his ground. Inspired by his example, the officers
+      and men behaved with great bravery: sometimes they fought collectively in
+      open view, and sometimes individually under cover; taking aim from behind
+      the bodies of trees, and acting in a manner independent of each other. For
+      himself; having discharged his fuzee several times, at length it missed
+      fire, whilst the muzzle was pressed against the breast of a large and well
+      proportioned savage. This warrior, availing himself of the indefensible
+      attitude of his adversary, with a tremendous war-whoop sprang forward,
+      with his lifted hatchet, and compelled him to surrender; and having
+      disarmed and bound him fast to a tree, returned to the battle.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0103" id="linkimage-0103"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0297m.jpg" alt="0297m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0297.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      The intrepid Captains D&rsquo;Ell and Harman, who now commanded, were forced to
+      give ground for a little distance; the savages, conceiving this to be the
+      certain harbinger of victory, rushed impetuously on, with dreadful and
+      redoubled cries. But our two partisans, collecting a handful of brave men,
+      gave the pursuers so warm a reception as to oblige them in turn, to
+      retreat a little beyond the spot at which the action had commenced.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here they made a stand. This change of ground occasioned the tree, to
+      which Putnam was tied, to be directly between the two parties. Human
+      imagination can hardly figure to itself a more deplorable situation. The
+      balls flew incessantly from either side, many struck the tree, while some
+      passed through the sleeves and skirts of his coat. In this state of
+      jeopardy, unable to move his body, to stir his limbs, or even to incline
+      his head, he remained more than an hour. So equally balanced, and so
+      obstinate was the fight! At one moment, while the battle swerved in in
+      favor of the enemy, a young savage chose an odd way of discovering his
+      humor. He found Putnam bound. He might have despatched him at a blow; but
+      he loved better to excite the terrors of the prisoner, by hurling a
+      tomahawk at his head, or rather it should seem his object was to see how
+      near he could throw it without touching him&mdash;the weapon struck in the
+      tree a number of times at a hair&rsquo;s breadth distant from the mark. When the
+      Indian had finished his amusement, a French officer, (a much more
+      inveterate savage by nature, though descended from so humane and polished
+      a nation,) perceiving Putnam, came up to him, and levelling a fuzee within
+      a foot of his breast, attempted to discharge it; it missed fire&mdash;ineffectually
+      did the intended victim solicit the treatment due to his situation, by
+      repeating that he was a prisoner of war. The degenerate officer did not
+      understand the language of honor or of nature; deaf to their voice, and
+      dead to sensibility, he violently and repeatedly pushed the muzzle of his
+      gun against Putnam&rsquo;s ribs, and finally gave him a cruel blow on the jaw
+      with the butt of his piece. After this dastardly deed he left him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At length the active intrepidity of D&rsquo;Ell and Harman, seconded by the
+      persevering valor of their followers, prevailed. They drove from the field
+      the enemy, who left about ninety dead behind them. As they were retiring,
+      Putnam was untied by the Indian who had made him prisoner, and whom he
+      afterwards called master.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Having been conducted for some distance from the place of action, he was
+      stripped of his coat, vest, stockings, and shoes; loaded with as many
+      packs of the wounded as could be piled upon him: strongly pinioned, and
+      his wrists tied as closely together as they could be pulled with a cord.
+      After he had marched through no pleasant paths, in this painful manner,
+      for many a tedious mile, the party, who were excessively fatigued, halted
+      to breathe. His hands were now immoderately swelled from the tightness of
+      the ligature; and the pain had become intolerable. His feet were so much
+      scratched that the blood dropped fast from them. Exhausted with bearing a
+      burden above his strength, and frantic with torments exquisite beyond
+      endurance, he entreated the Irish interpreter to implore as the last and
+      only grace he desired of the savages, that they would knock him on the
+      head and take his scalp at once, or loose his hands.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A French officer, instantly interposing, ordered his hands to be unbound,
+      and some of the packs to be taken off. By this time the Indian who
+      captured him, and had been absent with the wounded, coming up, gave him a
+      pair of moccasins, and expressed great indignation at the unworthy
+      treatment his prisoner had suffered.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      That savage chief again returned to the care of the wounded, and, the
+      Indians, about two hundred in number, went before the rest of the party to
+      the place where the whole were, that night, to encamp. They took with them
+      Major Putnam, on whom (besides innumerable other outrages) they had the
+      barbarity to inflict a deep wound with a tomahawk, in the cheek. His
+      sufferings were in this place to be consummated. A scene of horror,
+      infinitely greater than had ever met his eyes before, was now preparing.
+      It was determined to roast him alive. For this purpose they led him into a
+      dark forest, stripped him naked, bound him to a tree, and piled dried
+      brush with other fuel, at a small distance, in a circle round him. They
+      accompanied their labors, as if for his funeral dirge, with screams and
+      sounds inimitable but by savage voices. Then they set the piles on fire. A
+      sudden shower damped the rising flame. Still they strove to kindle it,
+      until, at last, the blaze ran fiercely round the circle. Major Putnam soon
+      began to feel the scorching heat. His hands were so tied that he could
+      move his body. He often shifted sides as the fire approached. This sight,
+      at the very idea of which all but savages must shudder, afforded the
+      highest diversion to his inhuman tormentors, who demonstrated the delirium
+      of their joy by corresponding yells, dances, and gesticulations. He saw
+      clearly that his final hour was inevitably come. He summoned all his
+      resolution and composed his mind, as far as the circumstances could admit,
+      to bid an eternal farewell to all he held most dear.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To quit the world would scarcely have cost a single pang, but for the idea
+      of home; but for the remembrance of domestic endearments, of the
+      affectionate partner of his soul, and of their beloved offspring. His
+      thought was ultimately fixed on a happier state of existence, beyond the
+      tortures he was beginning to endure. The bitterness of death, even of that
+      death which is accompanied with the keenest agonies, was, in a manner,
+      past&mdash;nature, with a feeble struggle, was quitting its last hold on
+      sublunary things&mdash;when a French officer rushed through the crowd,
+      opened the way by scattering the burning brands, and unbound the victim.
+      It was Molang himself&mdash;to whom a savage, unwilling to see another
+      human sacrifice immolated, had run and communicated the tidings. That
+      commandant spurned and severely reprimanded the barbarians, whose
+      nocturnal powwows and hellish orgies he suddenly ended. Putnam did not
+      want for feeling and gratitude. The French commander, fearing to trust him
+      alone with them, remained until he could deliver him in safety into the
+      hands of his master.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The savage approached his prisoner kindly, and seemed to treat him with
+      peculiar affection. He offered him some hard biscuit, but finding that he
+      could not chew them, on account of the blow he had received from the
+      Frenchman, this more humane savage soaked some of the biscuit in water and
+      made him suck the pulp-like part. Determined, however, not to lose his
+      captive (the refreshment being finished) he took the moccasins from his
+      feet and tied them to one of his wrists; then directing him to lie down on
+      his back upon the bare ground, he stretched one arm to its full length,
+      and bound it fast to a young tree; the other arm was extended and bound in
+      the same manner&mdash;his legs were stretched apart and fastened to two
+      saplings. Then a number of tall, but slender poles were cut down; which,
+      with some long bushes, were laid across his body from head to foot: on
+      each side lay as many Indians as could conveniently find lodging, in order
+      to prevent the possibility of his escape. In this disagreeable and painful
+      posture he remained until morning. During this night, the longest and most
+      dreary conceivable, our hero used to relate that he felt a ray of
+      cheerfulness come casually across his mind, and could not even refrain
+      from smiling, when he reflected on this ludicrous group for a painter, of
+      which he himself was the principal figure.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The next day he was allowed his blanket and moccasins, and permitted to
+      march without carrying any pack, or receiving any insult. To allay his
+      extreme hunger, a little bear&rsquo;s meat was given him, which he sucked
+      through his teeth. At night, the party arrived at Ticonderoga, and the
+      prisoner was placed under a French guard. The savages, who had been
+      prevented from glutting their diabolical thirst for blood, took other
+      opportunities of manifesting their malevolence for the disappointment, by
+      horrid grimaces and angry gestures; but they were suffered no more to
+      offer violence or personal indignity to him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      After having been examined by the Marquis de Montcalm, Major Putnam was
+      conducted to Montreal, by a French officer, who treated him with the
+      greatest indulgence and humanity.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this place were several prisoners. Colonel Peter Schuyler, remarkable
+      for his philanthropy, generosity, and friendship, was of the number. No
+      sooner had he heard of Major Putnam&rsquo;s arrival, than he went to the
+      interpreter&rsquo;s quarters, and inquired whether he had a provincial major in
+      his custody. He found Major Putnam in a comfortless condition&mdash;without
+      hat, waistcoat, or hose&mdash;the remnant of his clothing miserably dirty,
+      and ragged&mdash;his beard long and squalid&mdash;his legs torn by thorns
+      and briers&mdash;his face gashed with wounds, and swollen with bruises.
+      Colonel Schuyler, irritated beyond all sufferance at such a sight, could
+      scarcely restrain his speech within limits consistent with the prudence of
+      a prisoner, and the meekness of a Christian. Major Putnam was immediately
+      treated according to his rank, clothed in a decent manner, and supplied
+      with money by that liberal and sympathetic patron of the distressed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The capture of Frontenac, by General Brad-street, afforded occasion for an
+      exchange of prisoners: Colonel Schuyler was comprehended in the cartel. A
+      generous spirit can never be satisfied with imposing tasks for its
+      generosity to accomplish. Apprehensive if it should be known that Putnam
+      was a distinguished partisan, his liberation might be retarded, and
+      knowing that there were officers, who, from the length of their captivity,
+      had a claim of priority to exchange; he had, by his happy address, induced
+      the governor to offer, that whatever officer he might think proper to
+      nominate, should be included in the present cartel. With great politeness
+      in manner, but seeming indifference as to object, he expressed his warmest
+      acknowledgments to the governor, and said: &ldquo;There is an old man here, who
+      is a provincial major, and he wishes to be at home with his wife and
+      children. He can do no good here, or any where else: I believe your
+      excellency had better keep some of the young men, who have no wife or
+      children to care for, and let the old fellow go home with me.&rdquo; This
+      justifiable finesse had the desired effect.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0104" id="linkimage-0104"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0308m.jpg" alt="0308m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0308.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0105" id="linkimage-0105"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0311m.jpg" alt="0311m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0311.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0028" id="link2H_4_0028"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE INDIANS OF ST. MARY&rsquo;S.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0106" id="linkimage-0106"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9311.jpg" alt="9311 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9311.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      IT belonged to a member of the once dominant sect of Catholics to glorify
+      his creed and clime, and to set an example to the world, in the
+      establishment of complete religious liberty. To George Calvert, the
+      originator of the scheme for colonizing Maryland, this honor belonged;
+      but, alas! he was not permitted to execute the plans his noble heart
+      conceived, for death snatched him from his labors, ere the boon he
+      contemplated for the world was ready to be given.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But Cecil Calvert was a worthy son of so great a father. He at once
+      entered into all the plans of his deceased parent, and with a veneration
+      that does him credit, resolved that they should be carried out to the
+      fullest extent; and the slightest wish the old lord had expressed in
+      regard to the new colony should be religiously complied with. Bigots
+      sneered at him, enemies maligned, but, conscious of the rectitude of his
+      purpose, he steadily pursued his plans.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Under the guidance of Leonard Calvert, (a brother of the proprietor), some
+      two hundred English gentlemen, and their servants, mostly of the catholic
+      persuasion, sailed for the province, in November, 1633, and after the
+      usual vicissitudes and adventures of a sea voyage at that period, arrived
+      in the Potomac in the spring of 1634. A small party was despatched into
+      the interior to explore the country previous to effecting a permanent
+      settlement; the woods were then all joyous and teeming with grandeur, and
+      loveliness of spring tinting the fair face of nature with that peculiar
+      and fascinating beauty which is better felt than described.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To the sea-worn colonists, the country opened before them as a broad fair
+      haven, where they might worship God free as the air and feel themselves
+      men. The scouts soon returned, and, according to their direction, the
+      party moved up to a spot they had selected on the banks of a clear and
+      silvery stream flowing into the broad river they had first entered. Here,
+      with the usual ceremonies, Calvert took possession, naming the surrounding
+      country &ldquo;Marie-land,&rdquo; in honor of &ldquo;our glorious ladye, the queene;&rdquo; and in
+      gratitude for their success thus far, they named the river St. Mary.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But the good Cecil, in the wise provision for the wants of his people had
+      not forgotten the rightful lords of the soil, the Indian aborigines.
+      &ldquo;Entreat them kindly always, I conjure you, endeavor assiduously to
+      cultivate their friendship, and above all take no land from them but what
+      ye might pay therefor,&rdquo; Such were the mild and benevolent instructions of
+      the proprietor, and faithfully were they carried into execution by his
+      brother, the governor.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Anxious, therefore, to secure his settlement on a firm basis, and to
+      obtain an acknowledged title to the soil, Calvert submitted to a
+      neighboring chief, his propositions to purchase land of him, but received
+      an answer of sullen indifference, &ldquo;I will neither bid you go nor ask you
+      to stay.&rdquo; Such was the address and courtesy of the governor, however, and
+      the just and pacific policy of his people, that not only was the stoic
+      warrior won over to their interests, but he also exerted his influence
+      with the neighboring tribes, on behalf of the new comers.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Through his aid a council of the neighboring Indians was soon convened.
+      The governor appeared in pomp, and addressed them, calling them brothers,
+      and asking for a piece of ground, that he and his people might plant corn,
+      and the red man and the pale face would live together in peace and unity.
+      He described to them, in their own exaggerated rhetoric, the power of the
+      King of England, and his master, the Lord of Baltimore, and told them the
+      kind messages he had sent to his forest children.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians replied in the language of kindness and conciliation. &ldquo;The
+      white man should have land&mdash;room enough for both people&mdash;plenty
+      room&mdash;White chief very good to send word to the Indians.&rdquo; The
+      governor and chief then embraced each other, and the pipe of peace was
+      passed round the circle, each one gravely taking a few whiffs. A treaty
+      was then made, giving to the settlers a considerable tract of land, within
+      which was the Indian town of Taocomoco.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this town they gave the name of St. Mary&rsquo;s, in honor of the Virgin, and
+      the first building erected was a chapel dedicated to her worship. The
+      Indians looked upon the colonists with surprise, they mingled freely with
+      them, and had many curious and amusing questions to ask concerning every
+      thing they saw, and which was all new to them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One morning a party of them wandered into the church, and gazed with
+      bewildered air upon the pictures and crucifixes with which it was
+      decorated. Shortly after this, one of their number being on a visit to the
+      governor, he presented him with a rosary, having a small crucifix
+      attached; the happy fellow received it with a yell of delight, and ran off
+      to his comrades, whirling up his prize, and they immediately commenced
+      kneeling and crossing themselves in the same manner they had observed the
+      worshippers do in the chapel.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It is something refreshing and ennobling, amid the dark and sickening
+      catalogue of bigotry, slaughter, and desolating wars which disgraced the
+      history of too many of our states, to look back on one green spot, where
+      fellow men were not spurned and despised on account of their creed, and
+      where the poor Indian was treated with kindness.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Many of the tribes in the vicinity, attracted by curiosity, and the good
+      name given to these new people, came to the settlement, and their chiefs
+      were entertained with a sumptuous feast on board a ship, which lay
+      anchored in the river, the King of Patuxent being seated at the table
+      between the Governor of Maryland, and the Governor of Virginia, who was
+      also present on a friendly mission.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the storehouse was finished, and it became necessary to unload the
+      ships, the governor, in order to gratify his Indian friends, and make a
+      proper impression on all who were inclined to be enemies, directed it to
+      be done with all due solemnity. The colors were displayed, and the
+      colonists clad in military costume, paraded under arms, to the strains of
+      martial music, the sound of which so delighted the Indians, that they
+      clapped their hands in glee, and struck off in one of their national
+      festive dances.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Volleys of musketry were fired on shore, and answered by discharges of
+      cannon on board the ship, which terrified the Indians so highly, that they
+      fled some distance into the woods; but finding no harm done, they returned
+      greatly impressed with the power of the people who could bring &ldquo;the big
+      thunder&rdquo; to their aid. Some of the sachems from a distance, being present
+      at this exhibition, took occasion to warn the Indians of Yaocomoco, (or
+      St. Mary&rsquo;s, as it was now called,) to keep the league they had made with
+      the English.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The old King of Patuxent in particular showed undecided partiality for the
+      &ldquo;good men,&rdquo; as he called them. He remained in town several days, during
+      which he was treated with becoming attention, and when about to leave,
+      made use of this remarkable expression, to the governor: &ldquo;I love the
+      English so well, that if they should go about to kill me, I would command
+      the people not to avenge my death; for I know they would do no such a
+      thing, except it were through my own fault.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0107" id="linkimage-0107"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0319m.jpg" alt="0319m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0319.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      At length the ship sailed, leaving the colonists alone with their red
+      brethren. Before he left, however, the captain called the Indians
+      together, and told them he was going, and they must be kind to the people
+      he left behind, and he would tell his great lord how good they were.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians seemed much affected when he told them he was going, and
+      pressed around to take a farewell. They accompanied him to the boat, and
+      brought some of their forest furs, and bows, and ornamented pipes, which
+      they begged him to give &ldquo;to great white chief, and tell him how much his
+      Indian children love him&mdash;thank him very much, for the good people he
+      send to live among Indians,&mdash;we love him much, and we love his
+      people. We be all English.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      No community could now be happier than the little colony on the St.
+      Mary&rsquo;s. It seemed as if the golden age was realized, when all men should
+      dwell together in peace and unity. The English and the Indians lived
+      together in St. Mary&rsquo;s, each occupying half the town according to a
+      stipulation between them, and the utmost harmony prevailed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0108" id="linkimage-0108"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0322m.jpg" alt="0322m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0322.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      Once a party of them visiting the governor&rsquo;s, they were shown a portrait
+      of the proprietor, Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, which they
+      regarded in silence for some time, and then exclaimed, &ldquo;great father, good
+      father&mdash;He love us much&mdash;we love him,&rdquo; and eagerly inquired if
+      he would ever come over and see them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Frequently they would enter the chapel when the congregation was at
+      worship, and would look with respectful attention on the ceremonies. The
+      worthy pastor of the colonists, early took a great interest in the welfare
+      of the Indians. He delighted to see them in the chapel, and would tell
+      them to come often. A class of native children was soon formed to learn
+      the catechism, and some few of the adults were won over to the catholic
+      faith, and were received into the church by baptism, with becoming
+      ceremony. The good priest was very kind to his Indian charge; he would
+      enter their wigwams and talk to them, and give them little pictures of the
+      saints, and small rosaries, which they stuck up in conspicuous places and
+      highly esteemed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In this way he won their gratitude and affection, until he came to be
+      regarded by them with dutiful awe and reverence, and received the title of
+      father, the same which the whites gave him. They would say, &ldquo;big chief
+      great man&mdash;Father also great, he be good&mdash;talk kind to Indian&mdash;Indian
+      sick&mdash;he give him good medicine make him well. Father great
+      medicine-man, him big doctor beat Indian medicine-man.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The natives testified their friendly disposition, by going every day into
+      the woods with their new neighbors, pointing out the best resorts of game,
+      joining in the chase with them, and when the whites were too busy to hunt,
+      they would go alone, and bring home venison and wild turkies in abundance,
+      which they would lay at the feet of the settlers, and go away well
+      satisfied with the cheap requital of knives, beads, and toys.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0109" id="linkimage-0109"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0325m.jpg" alt="0325m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0325.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      Observing that the whites, one day in the week, use fish instead of meat,
+      and were desirous of obtaining a sufficient supply of it, they would go
+      and fish for them, and bring every Friday morning an abundance for the
+      whole settlement.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They likewise showed them the best places in the river for fishing
+      stations, and instructed them in their own methods of catching the various
+      kinds of fish that inhabited the shallow waters.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      From these resources, the colonists were so abundantly supplied, and the
+      provisions they had brought with them so extended, that every one enjoyed
+      plenty through the entire winter, and the times of starving and desolation
+      so common in the history of other colonies were unknown in the homes of
+      the peaceful Marylanders.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Altogether, the settlers and the aborigines were so thoroughly mixed in
+      friendship and intercourse, that they seemed as one people in thought and
+      feeling, differing only in the distinctions which nature herself had
+      imposed. The Indians were allowed freely to enter the dwellings of the
+      whites, at any time they chose, the doors never being fastened against
+      them. They would frequently come and eat with them, and sleep under their
+      roofs, and many of the whites would pay similar visits to the lodges at
+      the other end of the town.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Their women also instructed the wives of the colonists in making bread of
+      maize, which soon became a staple article of diet, and the cultivation of
+      corn was extensively entered into. As a certain mark of entire confidence
+      of the Indians, their women and children became in a great measure
+      domesticated in the the English families, and were treated in every
+      respect on a perfect equality with the whites.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      During the cold weather, when the men were in a great measure unemployed,
+      the natives instructed them in the various ways of pursuing game, the
+      snares laid for them, and the best method of approaching the unsuspecting
+      prey. One very singular mode of gaining on the deer, in which they
+      initiated the whites, until they became by practice almost as expert as
+      themselves, deserves particular mention: An Indian hunter and a party of
+      whites, go into the woods together, and presently discover a deer in the
+      distance, feeding, and warily watching for danger, the whites, as
+      directed, would hide themselves behind a rock, and the Indian, putting on
+      the skin of a deer, to which the head and horns were left attached, would
+      creep along, in a circuitous direction, towards the deer, mimicking to
+      perfection the gait and appearance of that animal. Cautiously advancing,
+      pretending all the time to be feeding, he would approach the animal, until
+      he had excited its attention, when it would raise its head and look
+      curiously at him, when he was within a few feet of it, he would partially,
+      disengage himself from his covering, and drawing out his bow and arrow,
+      with which he was previously provided, would take deliberate and fatal
+      aim, and speedily bring the noble beast to the ground.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0110" id="linkimage-0110"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0329m.jpg" alt="0329m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0329.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      In the following spring, the natives from a distance assembled to carry on
+      a trade with the strangers, which was conducted to the mutual advantage of
+      both parties. The articles exchanged were deer skins, and the furs of
+      smaller animals, on the one side, and strips of cloth, tools, and various
+      trinkets on the other, and by these means a considerable quantity of
+      peltries was collected.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Shortly after this, to the joy of all parties, a ship arrived with stores
+      and reinforcements from England, and having on board a no less
+      distinguished personage than the noble Lord of Baltimore. He was welcomed
+      with an enthusiastic delight, and the highest honors their little state
+      could bestow.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Nor were the Indians less pleased to hear of his arrival. The
+      representations of the governor, and the amiable conduct of his people,
+      had so favorably impressed them that they were willing to reverence him
+      before they had seen him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The next day a large party desired an interview with his lordship, and he
+      was pleased to gratify them. They had brought with them many tokens of
+      good feeling and respect, which they deposited before him. Some brought a
+      whole deer, others a package of dried fish, wampum belts, tobacco, and
+      such other things as valuing themselves they thought would be pleasing to
+      him. They presented their offerings with such genuine expressions of
+      gratitude and devoted attachment that the good Calvert was highly moved at
+      his reception by these rude foresters.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One of the chiefs then made a speech to him, in which he expressed on
+      behalf of himself and companions, the great joy they felt on being
+      permitted to behold their great father, they thanked him for the good
+      message he had sent them from the first, declared their willingness to
+      serve him in any manner they were able.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Calvert replied in an appropriate style, of which they expressed their
+      approbation by the wild gesticulations of their own race; he then invited
+      them to a grand entertainment, prepared for them in the garden, at which
+      he presided, with the chiefs on his right hand, and completely won their
+      hearts by his dignified bearing, his sweetness of manners, and the
+      interest he appeared to take in his guests. After the feast was over, they
+      performed for his diversion a number of their national dances. A circle
+      was formed, and the assurances of friendship renewed, the pipe of peace
+      was then produced, and passed around from mouth to mouth, Baltimore, to
+      their delight, indulging in a few whiffs; they then separated and returned
+      to their places.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Nothing could exceed the kindly interest this good nobleman displayed in
+      the welfare of the Indians. Almost as soon as he landed he made himself
+      active in their cause, the first business he engaged in being an inquiry
+      into the treatment of the Indians.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He professed himself highly gratified, by the faithful manner in which his
+      instructions had been carried out by the colonists, and commended them
+      therefor. He immediately renewed and extended, all the rights and
+      privileges originally retained by them, and decreed that all offences
+      committed against them should be punished exactly as aggressions against
+      the whites. He visited them in their wigwams, distributing a large
+      quantity of valuable presents he had brought with him for the purpose.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He endeavored to make himself acquainted with their internal arrangements,
+      and to observe their manners and customs, he went with them into the
+      woods, to witness their mode of hunting and fishing, which they were proud
+      to display before him, and in token of the esteem his conduct had won from
+      them, they bestowed upon him the endearing title of &ldquo;our own chief.&rdquo; With
+      the assistance of the good padre, the proprietor perfected many plans for
+      ameliorating the condition of his Indian subjects, for their moral and
+      intellectual culture, a school was at once opened, and thither resorted a
+      number of children of the surrounding tribes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One day a great chieftain from beyond the mountains, in the most western
+      part of the colony, repaired to St. Mary&rsquo;s, to make his obeisance to the
+      proprietor, the fame of whose merits and condescension had reached his
+      ears. He heard with wonderment, the many strange stories told him by his
+      friends, who lived among the whites, and approached the palace of the
+      governor with superstitious awe.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By command of Baltimore he was received with as much show and parade as
+      they could assume, and it seemed to have had its intended effect upon him;
+      everything in the place attracted his attention, and called forth
+      expressions of delight. Seeing the fondness he evinced for bright things,
+      the governor presented him with a shining pewter dish, which he suspended
+      around his neck and seemed to regard it as a peculiar mark of honor and
+      distinction.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      More settlers continued to arrive, and under the fostering care of Lord
+      Baltimore, aided by the friendship of the Indians, the new colony in a
+      short time became exceedingly flourishing and prosperous.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Not very long after the arrival of Baltimore, the good priest, whom the
+      Indians loved, contracted a fatal disease, while visiting them, and in a
+      short time died, deeply lamented by both his white and red friends. To
+      testify their respect for him, they, attended his funeral in a body, and
+      looked on with a tearful eye, while the remains of their friend were
+      lowered in the grave. When the funeral service was over, one of them
+      stepped forth, and in an appropriate speech, signified to the governor
+      their sincere sorrow and condolence in the loss which both parties had
+      sustained.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They then retired to their lodges, where a solemn fast and lamentation for
+      the dead was held, the squaws beating their breasts and tearing their hair
+      in a frantic manner, while the men sat around in solemn and dignified
+      silence.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thus happily were the seeds of the future commonwealth of Maryland
+      planted; thus kindly and considerately were the natives treated, and nobly
+      did they repay it, in the peace, good-feeling, and fellowship they long
+      entertained for the settlers.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0111" id="linkimage-0111"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0337m.jpg" alt="0337m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0337.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0112" id="linkimage-0112"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0338m.jpg" alt="0338m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0338.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0029" id="link2H_4_0029"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      RED JACKET.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0113" id="linkimage-0113"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9338.jpg" alt="9338 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9338.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      HE famous Red Jacket was a chief of the Senecas. His Indian name,
+      Sagouatha, or, <i>one who keeps awake</i>, was affixed to many of the
+      important treaties concluded between the Senecas and the white people, and
+      he became renowned among both races for his wisdom and eloquence. Without
+      the advantages of illustrious descent, and with no extraordinary military
+      talents, Red Jacket rose to a high position in the esteem of the red men.
+      In the year 1805, a council was held at Buffalo, New York, at which many
+      of the Seneca chiefs and warriors were present. At this council, Red
+      Jacket made a speech, in answer to a missionary from Massachusetts, which
+      in force and eloquence was worthy of the great orators of antiquity. The
+      following is the most remarkable portion of this great effort:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;<i>Friend and Brother</i>: It was the will of the Great Spirit that we
+      should meet together this day. He orders all things, and he has given us a
+      fine day for our council. He has taken his garment from before the sun,
+      and caused it to shine with brightness upon us; our eyes are opened, that
+      we see clearly; our ears are unstopped, that we have been able to hear
+      distinctly the words that you have spoken; for all these favors we thank
+      the Great Spirit, and him only.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Brother, this council-fire was kindled by you; it was at your request
+      that we came together at this time; we have listened with attention to
+      what you have said; you request us to speak our minds freely; this gives
+      us great joy, for we now consider that we stand upright before you, and
+      can speak what we think; all have heard your voice, and all speak to you
+      as one man; our minds are agreed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Brother, you say you want an answer to your talk before you leave this
+      place. It is right you should have one, as you are a great distance from
+      home, and we do not wish to detain you; but we will first look back a
+      little, and tell you what our fathers have told us, and what we have heard
+      from the white people.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Brother, listen to what I say. There was a time when our forefathers
+      owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the
+      setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians. He had
+      created the buffalo, the deer, and other animals for food. He made the
+      bear, and the beaver, and their skins served us for clothing. He had
+      scattered them over the country, and taught us how to take them. He had
+      caused the earth to produce corn for bread. All this he had done for his
+      red children because he loved them. If we had any disputes about
+      hunting-grounds, they were generally settled without the shedding of much
+      blood: but an evil day came upon us: your forefathers crossed the great
+      waters, and landed on this island. Their numbers were small; they found
+      friends, and not enemies; they told us they had fled from their own
+      country for fear of wicked men, and come here to enjoy their religion.
+      They asked for a small seat; we took pity on them, granted their request,
+      and they sat down amongst us; we gave them corn and meat; they gave us
+      poison in return. The white people had now found our country, tidings were
+      carried back, and more came amongst us; yet we did not fear them, we took
+      them to be friends; they called us brothers; we believed them, and gave
+      them a larger seat. At length their numbers had greatly increased; they
+      wanted more land; they wanted our country. Our eyes were opened, and our
+      minds became uneasy. Wars took place; Indians were hired to fight against
+      Indians, and many of our people were destroyed. They also brought strong
+      liquors among us: it was strong and powerful, and has slain thousands.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The effect of this speech was such that the missionaries who had called
+      the council, were forced to give up all attempts at making converts among
+      the Senecas. Red Jacket took part with the Americans in the war of 1812,
+      and on all occasions displayed a cool and deliberate bravery, which
+      contrasted well with the rashness of Tecumseh and other great chiefs. He
+      became attached to some of the American officers, and after the war
+      regretted much to part with them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Like Tecumseh, Red Jacket made a skilful use of superstition to obtain an
+      influence over his tribe. Having, in some way, lost the confidence of his
+      red brethren, he prevailed upon his brother to announce himself a prophet,
+      commissioned by the Great Spirit to restore his countrymen to their lost
+      land and power. By skilful reasoning, Red Jacket persuaded the
+      superstitious Indians to believe in his brother&rsquo;s infallibility. Good
+      resulted from this deception. The Onondagas were at that period the most
+      drunken and profligate of the Iroquois. They were now persuaded to abstain
+      from ardent spirits, became sober and industrious, and observed and obeyed
+      the laws of morality. But the imposture was at length exposed by the
+      extremes into which it led many of the red men. Many were denounced as
+      possessed by evil spirits, and would have been burned by the
+      superstitious, if the whites had not interfered.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0114" id="linkimage-0114"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0344m.jpg" alt="0344m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0344.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      In a council of Indians held at Buffalo creek, Red Jacket was denounced as
+      the author of these troubles, and brought to trial; but his eloquence
+      saved his life and greatly increased his fame. In a speech of three hours&rsquo; 
+      length, he completely overthrew the accusations of his enemies, and was
+      triumphantly acquitted. This was one of the most remarkable displays of
+      eloquence to be found in history.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Many anecdotes are related of Red Jacket, which illustrated his qualities
+      of head and heart. When at Washington he visited the rotunda of the
+      capitol, and was shown, the panel which represented the first landing of
+      the pilgrims at Plymouth, with an Indian chief presenting them with an ear
+      of corn, in token of welcome. Red Jacket said, &ldquo;That was good; he knew
+      they came from the Great Spirit, and was willing to share the soil with
+      his brothers.&rdquo; But when he turned to view another panel, representing
+      Penn&rsquo;s Treaty, he said, &ldquo;Ah&rsquo;! all&rsquo;s gone now!&rdquo; These few words expressed a
+      deal of truth and a feeling of regret.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When Lafayette was at Buffalo, in 1825, among those who called upon him
+      was Red Jacket, who resided near that town, and by years and intemperance
+      had been much worn down. He remembered Lafayette, having seen him at an
+      Indian council held at Fort Schuyler, 1784. He asked the general if he
+      recollected that meeting. The general replied that he had not forgotten
+      it, and asked Red Jacket if he knew what had become of the young chief,
+      who, in that council, opposed with such eloquence the burying of the
+      tomahawk. Red Jacket replied, &ldquo;<i>He stands before you!</i>&rdquo; The general
+      observed that time had much changed them since that meeting. &ldquo;Ah,&rdquo; said
+      Red Jacket, &ldquo;time has not been so severe upon you as it has upon me. It
+      has left you a fresh countenance, and hair to cover your head; while to me&mdash;behold!&rdquo;
+       And taking a handkerchief from his head, he showed that it was entirely
+      bald.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Red Jacket always opposed the introduction of missionaries among his
+      people, and with a force of reasoning, the white agents could not resist.
+      He believed that the whites should first practice the virtues they
+      preached to the red men; and he had seen too much evil follow in the white
+      man&rsquo;s steps to wish his men to tread the same path.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Not long before his death, Red Jacket was visited by Mr. Catlin, the
+      celebrated author of a most complete work upon the Indians of North
+      America. He then resided near Buffalo, and was the head chief of all the
+      remaining Iroquois.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0115" id="linkimage-0115"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0349m.jpg" alt="0349m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0349.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      Mr. Catlin painted his portrait, and represented him as he wished,
+      standing on the Table Rock, at the Falls of Niagara; about which place he
+      thought his spirit would linger after his death. Red Jacket died in 1836.
+      A handsome and appropriate monument was erected over his grave, by Mr.
+      Henry Placide, the comedian; and more lasting monuments, in historical
+      form, have been written by distinguished authors. As an orator, this
+      gifted chief was equal to any of modern times. His speeches display the
+      greatest sagacity and sublimity of ideas, with the greatest force and
+      condensation of expression. His gestures while speaking are said to have
+      been singularly significant; and the features of his face, particularly
+      his piercing eyes, full of expression. He was in truth, a &ldquo;forest-born
+      Demosthenes.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0116" id="linkimage-0116"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0351m.jpg" alt="0351m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0351.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <h3>
+      WEATHERFORD.
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0117" id="linkimage-0117"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9351.jpg" alt="9351 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9351.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      EATHERFORD was the principal chief of the
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Creeks during the war in which the power of that nation was broken and
+      destroyed by General Jackson. In his character was found that union of
+      great virtues and vices which has made up the character of many celebrated
+      men among civilized nations. With avarice, treachery, lust, gluttony, and
+      a thirst for blood, nature gave Weatherford, genius, eloquence, and
+      courage. Seldom has an Indian appeared, more capable of planning and
+      executing great designs. His judgment and eloquence secured him the
+      respect of the old; his vices made him the idol of the young and
+      unprincipled. In his person, he was tall, straight, and well proportioned;
+      his eyes black, lively, and piercing; his nose aquiline and thin; while
+      all the features of his face, harmoniously arranged, spoke an active and
+      disciplined mind.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was Weatherford&rsquo;s talents and determined spirit which prolonged the war
+      against the whites, which began in August, 1813. When the power of the
+      Creeks had been broken, and great numbers of them had fallen, many of
+      their chiefs and warriors came to General Jackson, and surrendered
+      themselves prisoners. Weatherford, with a few followers, boldly maintained
+      his hostile attitude. General Jackson, to test the fidelity of those
+      chiefs who submitted, ordered them to deliver, without delay, Weatherford,
+      bound, into his hands, that he might be dealt with as he deserved. The
+      warriors made known to Weatherford what was required of them. His noble
+      spirit would not submit to such degradation; and he resolved to yield
+      himself without compulsion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0118" id="linkimage-0118"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0353m.jpg" alt="0353m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0353.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      Accordingly, Weatherford proceeded to the American camp, unknown, and
+      under some pretence, was admitted to the presence of the commanding
+      general. He then boldly said: &ldquo;I am Weatherford, the chief who commanded
+      at Fort Mimms. I desire peace for my people, and have come to ask it.&rdquo;
+       Jackson was surprised that he should venture to appear in his presence,
+      and told him, for his inhuman conduct at Fort Mimms, he well deserved to
+      die; that he had ordered him to be brought to the camp, bound, and had he
+      been so bound, he would have been treated as he deserved. To this
+      Weatherford replied:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am in your power&mdash;do with me as you please. I am a soldier. I have
+      done the white people all the harm I could. I have fought them and fought
+      them bravely. If I had an army, I would yet fight; I would contend to the
+      last. But I have none. My people are all gone. I can only weep over the
+      misfortunes of my nation.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      General Jackson was pleased with his boldness, and told him that, though
+      he was in his power, yet he would take no advantage; that he might yet
+      join the war party, and contend against the Americans, if he chose, but to
+      depend upon no quarter if taken afterward; and that unconditional
+      submission was his and his people&rsquo;s only safety. Weatherford rejoined in a
+      tone as dignified as it was indignant,&mdash;&ldquo;You can safely address me in
+      such terms now. There was a time when I could have answered you&mdash;there
+      was a time when I had a choice&mdash;I have none now. I have not even a
+      hope. I could once animate my warriors to battle&mdash;but I cannot
+      animate the dead. My warriors can no longer hear my voice. Their bones are
+      at Tallahega, Tallushatchee, Emuckfaw, and Tohopeka. I have not
+      surrendered myself without thought. While there was a single chance of
+      success, I never left my post, nor supplicated peace. But my people are
+      gone, and I now ask it for my nation, not for myself. I look back with
+      deep sorrow, and wish to avert still greater calamities. If I had been
+      left to contend with the Georgia army, I would have raised my corn on one
+      bank of the river, and fought them on the other. But your people have
+      destroyed my nation. You are a brave man. I rely upon your generosity. You
+      will exact no terms of a conquered people, but such as they should accede
+      to. Whatever they may be, it would now be madness and folly to oppose
+      them. If they are opposed, you shall find me amongst the sternest
+      enforcers of obedience. Those who would still hold out, can be influenced
+      only by a mean spirit of revenge. To this they must not, and shall not
+      sacrifice the last remnant of their country. You have told our nation
+      where we might go and be safe. This is good talk, and they ought to listen
+      to it. They shall listen to it.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0119" id="linkimage-0119"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0357m.jpg" alt="0357m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0357.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      The treaty concluded between the Creeks and the whites was faithfully
+      observed by the former, and Weatherford&rsquo;s conduct proved, that he could be
+      a warm friend if conciliated, as well as a formidable and determined foe
+      in war. Passionately fond of wealth, he appropriated to himself a fine
+      tract of land, improved and settled it. To this he retired occasionally,
+      and relaxed from the cares of his government, indulging in pleasures,
+      censurable and often disgusting. The character of this chief reminds us of
+      some of the old Roman heroes and politicians. The same genius, activity,
+      ambition, and love of vicious pleasures belonged to those Cæsars and
+      Antonys who have received more historical encomiums than is rightfully
+      their due.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0120" id="linkimage-0120"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0360m.jpg" alt="0360m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0360.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0121" id="linkimage-0121"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0362m.jpg" alt="0362m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0362.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0122" id="linkimage-0122"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0363m.jpg" alt="0363m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0363.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0030" id="link2H_4_0030"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      THE BATTLE OF SACO POND.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0123" id="linkimage-0123"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9363.jpg" alt="9363 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9363.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      O event is oftener mentioned in New England story than the memorable fight
+      between the English and Indians, at Saco Pond. The cruel and barbarous
+      murders almost daily committed upon the inhabitants of the frontier
+      settlements, caused the general court of Massachusetts to offer a bounty
+      of £100 for every Indian&rsquo;s scalp. This reward induced Captain John
+      Lovewell to raise a volunteer company, and make excursions into the Indian
+      country for scalps. He was very successful and returned to Boston with
+      scalps for which he received £1000.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians, however continued their depredations, and the Pequawkets,
+      under the terrible chief, Paugus, especially distinguished themselves for
+      their frequent predatory incursions. About the middle of April, 1725,
+      Captain Lovewell, with forty-six men, marched on an expedition against
+      Paugus. The party arrived near the place where they expected to find the
+      Indians, on the 7th of May; and and early the next morning, while at
+      prayers, heard a gun, supposed to be fired by one of the Indians, and
+      immediately prepared for the encounter. Divesting themselves of their
+      packs, they marched forward, but in an opposite direction from where the
+      Indians were posted.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This mistake gave Paugus an advantage. He followed the track of the
+      English, fell in with their packs, and learned their numbers. Encouraged
+      by superiority, he having eighty men with him, he pursued the English, and
+      courted a contest. Lovewell, after marching a considerable distance,
+      during which time he took one scalp, and was mortally wounded by the last
+      fire of the Indian who had been scalped, ordered his men to return for
+      their packs. The wary Paugus expected this, and lay in ambush to cut them
+      off. When the English were completely encircled, the Indians rose from the
+      coverts, and advanced towards them with arms presented. They expected the
+      English to surrender to their superior force, and accordingly threw away
+      their first fire. But Lovewell, though wounded, led on his men to the
+      attack. The Indians were driven back several rods, and many killed and
+      wounded. But they soon returned and attacked their white foes vigorously;
+      killed Lovewell and eight men, and wounded three others. The English then
+      retreated to the shore of Saco Pond, so as to prevent their being
+      surrounded. The banks afforded a kind of breastwork, behind which they
+      maintained the contest until night, when the Indians drew off and they saw
+      no more of them. Only nine of the English escaped unhurt, though several
+      that were wounded lived to return to Dunstable.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Paugus was killed in the course of the fight by one John Chamberlain, a
+      noted hunter. It is said that they both came to the shore of the pond to
+      quench their thirst, when the encounter took place, in which Paugus was
+      shot through the heart.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A son of the chief, after peace was restored, came to Dunstable, to
+      revenge his father&rsquo;s death, by killing Chamberlain; but not going directly
+      to him his design was suspected by some one, and communicated to the
+      intended victim, who kept himself upon his guard, and had a hole cut
+      through the door of his house. Through this hole, Chamberlain one morning
+      discovered an Indian, behind a pile of wood, with his gun pointed toward
+      the door. Making use of his advantage, he fired upon and killed the son of
+      Paugus.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the ballad, in which the events of Love-well&rsquo;s fight are commemorated,
+      we find some singular details of the escape of the wounded white men.
+      Solomon Keyes, having received three wounds, said he would hide himself
+      and die secretly, so that the Indians could not get his scalp? As he
+      crawled upon the shore of the pond, a short distance from the
+      battle-ground, he found a canoe, into which he rolled himself, and was
+      drifted away by the wind. To his astonishment, he was cast ashore near
+      Fort Ossippee, to which he crawled, and there found several of his
+      companions, with whom he returned home. The most of those who escaped did
+      not leave the battle-ground till near midnight. When they arrived at the
+      fort, they expected to find refreshment, and the few men they had left in
+      reserve. But a deserter had so frightened the men left in the fort, that
+      they fled in dismay towards Dunstable.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Fifty New Hampshire volunteers afterwards marched to the scene of action,
+      and buried the dead. They found but three Indians, one of whom was Paugus.
+      The remainder were supposed to have been taken away when they retreated.
+      The pond, on the banks of which the battle was fought, has ever since
+      received the name of Lovewell&rsquo;s Pond. Some rural Homer, the author of the
+      ballad to which we have alluded, thus pathetically concludes his
+      narrative:
+    </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      Ah, many a wife shall rend her hair,
+    </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      And many a child cry, &ldquo;Woe is me,&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      When messengers the news shall hear,
+    </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      Of Lovewell&rsquo;s dear-bought victory.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      With footsteps slow shall travellers go,
+    </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      Where Love well&rsquo;s pond shines clear and bright
+    </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      And mark the place where those are laid,
+    </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      Who fell in Love well&rsquo;s bloody fight.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      Old men shall shake their heads, and say,
+    </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      Sad was the hour and terrible,
+    </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      When Lovewell, brave, &lsquo;gainst Paugus went,
+    </p>
+    <p class="indent10">
+      With fifty men from Dunstable.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0124" id="linkimage-0124"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0370m.jpg" alt="0370m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0370.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0125" id="linkimage-0125"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0371m.jpg" alt="0371m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0371.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0031" id="link2H_4_0031"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      WINGINA
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0126" id="linkimage-0126"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9371.jpg" alt="9371 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9371.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      INGINA was the first chief known to the English settlers of Virginia. The
+      voyagers, Amidas and Barlow, sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh, in the summer
+      of 1584, landed upon the island of Wokoken, adjacent to Virginia. They saw
+      several of the natives, and made them presents. Wingina was at this time
+      confined in his cabin, from wounds received in battle, and did not see the
+      English. He had not much faith in their good intentions, and would not
+      trust them far.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Soon after the return of Amidas and Barlow to England, Sir Richard
+      Grenville intruded upon the territories of Wingina. It was he who
+      committed the first outrage upon the natives, which excited their constant
+      and deadly hostility. He made one short excursion into the country, during
+      which, to revenge the loss of a silver cup, which had been stolen by an
+      Indian, he burned a town. Grenville left one hundred and eight men to
+      found a settlement on the island of Roanoke, and appointed Ralph Lane,
+      governor. The English made several excursions into the country, in hopes
+      of discovering mines of precious metal, of which the Indians, to delude
+      them, spoke, and encouraged them to seek.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Wingina bore the insults and provocations of the intruders, until the
+      death of the old chief, Ensenore, his father. Under pretence of honoring
+      his funeral, he assembled eighteen hundred of his warriors, with the
+      intent, as the English say, of destroying them. The English were informed
+      of the deadly design, by Skiko, the son of the chief Menatonon; and
+      Governor Lane resolved to anticipate it. Upon a given signal, his men
+      attacked the natives on the island where Wingina lived, having secured the
+      canoes to prevent their escape. But five or six of the Indians were
+      killed, and the rest escaped to the woods, where Lane knew it would be
+      dangerous to follow them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This attack was the signal for the commencement of hostilities. The
+      English were few in number, but their skill and bravery in war was well
+      known to the red men, and they dreaded them, as if they had been superior
+      in number. Lane aimed at securing the person of Wingina, and thus striking
+      terror into his people; and accordingly watched every opportunity to gain
+      information of his whereabouts. At length he ascertained that the chief
+      had not been able to escape from the island, and that with a number of his
+      chiefs and warriors, he was lurking in the forests of the island which was
+      his capital. The English captain taking with him about one half of his
+      men, placed them in ambush near the spot which Wingina frequented daily.
+      It was the burial place of his father, and the chief, with a few
+      companions, came there to give himself to weeping and mournful reflection.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The English had little consideration for the place or the purpose of the
+      chief&rsquo;s visit. When they saw he was fairly within their power, they rushed
+      from their concealment, and before the chief and his warriors could
+      recover from their surprise and attempt to escape, shot them down. Lane
+      then returned to the remainder of his men. The bodies of Wingina and his
+      braves were found by his people, attracted to the spot by the report of
+      the fire-arms; and for a time, it seemed as if the desire of revenge would
+      induce them to follow the English and attack them. But the wiser portion
+      of them, knowing the advantage which the English possessed in the use of
+      fire-arms, restrained them. But Lane was not suffered to remain quiet in
+      the enjoyment of his triumph. Conspiracies were detected in various
+      quarters, and finally, the Indians compelled the whole English party to
+      return to Europe. We cannot wonder at the rooted enmity to the whites
+      which the Indians afterwards displayed. Not content with invading and
+      taking possession of the country, the early visitors from England burned
+      the towns and murdered the natives upon the slightest provocation. Early
+      impressions are most lasting, and what could the English expect after
+      giving the red men such an idea of their character?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0127" id="linkimage-0127"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0375m.jpg" alt="0375m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0375.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0128" id="linkimage-0128"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0376m.jpg" alt="0376m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0376.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0032" id="link2H_4_0032"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      HAROLD DEAN; OR, THE INDIAN&rsquo;S REVENGE.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0129" id="linkimage-0129"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9376.jpg" alt="9376 " width="100%" /><br /><a
+      href="images/9376.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      HE Indian ever regards the constant pursuit of revenge for an injury an
+      evidence of a high character. Instances are many, in which years have
+      intervened between a revengeful resolve, and the favorable opportunity,
+      yet no sign of relenting would be found in the injured one. Such a
+      disposition is natural to those who are taught to look on war as the chief
+      business of life, and mercy to foes as despicable weakness. The following
+      narrative will illustrate this feature of the Indian character.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      About the period of the first settlement of the disciples of George Fox,
+      on the banks of the Delaware, a party of young men, of respectable
+      families, filled with the hopes excited by the glowing accounts of the new
+      country, and having a love of adventure which could not be gratified in
+      their thickly settled and strictly governed native land, resolved to come
+      to America; and putting their resolve in execution they arrived on the
+      banks of the Delaware. The reasons for their preferring to visit Penn&rsquo;s
+      settlement were very pardonable. Although they loved adventure, they
+      preferred to seek it where the red men were least disposed to use the
+      hatchet and scalping knife, and where there was the clearest prospect of
+      making a good settlement if they felt so disposed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The party consisted of six young gentlemen of the average age of
+      twenty-two years. Their names were Harold Dean, George Sanford, William
+      Murdstone, James Ballybarn, Richard Gwynne, and Morton Williams. The first
+      was a daring, quick, and restless spirit, and by general consent the
+      leader of the party. He was a winning companion, but selfish, and seemed
+      to have cut loose from all moral principle. The character of the others
+      contained no extraordinary features. They were all possessed of good
+      intentions, and a considerable degree of intelligence; but being destitute
+      of that activity and force of will which belonged to the character of
+      Harold Dean.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The young men arrived in Penn&rsquo;s settlement, as we have said, and being
+      well provided with all the necessaries of a hunter&rsquo;s life, resolved to
+      build some cabins on the the banks of the beautiful Schuylkill. But first,
+      Harold Dean succeeded in making the acquaintance of the neighboring
+      Indians. These red men belonged to the great tribe, which the English
+      named the Delawares. They, however, called themselves the Leni Lenape.
+      They were generally well disposed towards the whites, on account of the
+      honorable and peaceful conduct of the founder of the settlement, and
+      received the young Englishmen with every testimonial of friendship and
+      respect. The chiefs assured the young men that they might build their
+      cabins and hunt without the fear of being disturbed by the red men.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Accordingly, Dean selected a high bank, rocky and castellated at the
+      water&rsquo;s side, and bare of trees for a considerable distance inland, for
+      the site of two cabins. The labor of building log cabins was novel to the
+      young men. Yet, though difficult, its novelty and romantic character made
+      it pleasing. James Ballybarn was a regularly taught carpenter and joiner,
+      and his knowledge was brought into use. Dean planned the cabins in the
+      simplest but most comfortable manner, and all hands worked hard at cutting
+      down trees and hewing them into the proper size and form. While the cabins
+      were preparing, the young pioneers slept in a rude hut constructed of
+      their chests and tools, and covered with the boughs of small trees.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The cabins were finished, much to the gratification of the workmen. They
+      stood within about five yards of each other and presented quite a fine
+      appearance, amid the solitude of the wilderness. Each one was occupied by
+      three young men. By the aid of a friendly Delaware, two canoes were also
+      constructed in the usual Indian style by hollowing out the trunks of large
+      trees. And now the real hardships of the hunter&rsquo;s life were to be endured;
+      and though our young pioneers succeeded very well for beginners supplying
+      themselves with food, and skins for sale, yet the labor was more difficult
+      than they had expected. One or two began to compare their situation with
+      what it had been in England, and the result of the comparison, was by no
+      means favorable to their remaining in the wilderness. But Harold Dean had
+      fallen in love with the hunter&rsquo;s life. It offered plenty of exciting
+      occupation to his quick and daring spirit; and he forgot friends and
+      relations at home. His influence over his companions was undisputed. He
+      had a love of being first in every thing, and never spared labor to make
+      himself such. His companions submitted to his lead, and after a little
+      argument, were persuaded that there was no life like a hunter&rsquo;s.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The party had become very intimate with the Indians, and Harold Dean
+      especially was a general favorite among them. He had cultivated the
+      friendship of a young Indian hunter, named Pakanke. Pakanke was brave,
+      adventurous, and skilled in all the mysteries of woodcraft. He instructed
+      Harold Dean in that art, which was to him so necessary, and joined the
+      young Englishmen in many a hunting excursion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But other attractions induced Harold to seek the company of Pakanke, and
+      frequently to spend a day at his wigwam. The Indian hunter had a sister,
+      who was one of the most beautiful young women of her tribe, and decidedly
+      the most intelligent. Her father had been killed in battle, and her
+      brother was necessarily her guardian. Many of the young Delawares,
+      foremost in war and the chase, coveted the beautiful Narramattah, but she
+      had refused to share the wigwam of the bravest. Harold Dean met her at the
+      cabin of her brother, and was charmed with her appearance and manners. His
+      fine person and winning attentions also captivated the guileless maid.
+      Pakanke regarded the growing attachment of his English friend and sister
+      with undisguised pleasure, and did all in his power to increase it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Harold&rsquo;s friends were now frequently deprived of his company, yet as he
+      told them of the beauties of the sister of Pakanke, they guessed the
+      reason and readily excused him. But was it a fact that Harold loved
+      Narra-mattah? That she loved him there could not be a doubt; she was never
+      happier than when in his presence, and she told him that he had became her
+      Manito, or idol. Harold admired her&mdash;that he confessed to himself.
+      But he laughed to scorn the assertions of his friends that he really loved
+      an Indian girl.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At length the precise state of his feelings was divulged. Richard Gwynne
+      rallied him one evening, after the return from the day&rsquo;s hunting, upon
+      being captivated by a dusky forest beauty.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Pshaw!&rdquo; replied Harold, with a contemptuous expression of features,
+      &ldquo;Gwynne, have you no idea of whiling away the time with women, apart from
+      falling in love with them? You are completely fresh. I love an ignorant
+      savage! I have known too many of the intelligent and enchanting girls of
+      merry old England, to be so foolish. I&rsquo;ll beguile the time with this
+      Narramattah, but could not for a moment think of loving her, or of going
+      through the Indian sanction of a marriage ceremony.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      So saying, Harold turned away from Gwynne, and entered the cabin. But what
+      he had said had struck one ear and touched one heart for which it was not
+      intended. Pa-kanke had parted from Harold a moment before Gwynne had
+      spoken to him, and hearing his sister&rsquo;s name mentioned, had checked his
+      pace to hear what was said of her. Eavesdropping is a vice practised by
+      the untutored children of the forest as well as by civilized men, and it
+      is sometimes pardonable. Pa-kanke understood sufficient English to
+      comprehend that Harold Dean was confessing that he was trifling with
+      Narramattah&rsquo;s love, and never intended to marry her. In an instant, all
+      his esteem and friendship for the young Englishman had turned to the gall
+      of hatred and revenge. He at first thought of seeking him at once, and
+      demanding redress for the insult offered to his family and race. But
+      reining his passion, he resolved to wait a more promising opportunity.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The next day, Harold Dean and Pakanke went upon the hunt together, and the
+      Indian took the earliest occasion, when they were alone, to explain to the
+      Englishman the extent of his sister&rsquo;s affection for him, and to demand
+      that he should marry her. Harold endeavored to soothe the indignant
+      feelings of the red man, and told him that he could love his sister, but
+      could not marry her, as he had a wife already in England. Pakanke told him
+      that he was deceitful; that he was a snake, whose bright colors lured
+      simple maidens near that he might sting them; that he had seemed a friend,
+      but to be a more deadly foe; and that he should marry Narra-mattah, or
+      feel that the red man can revenge an insult as he can repay a kindness. He
+      concluded in these forcible words: &ldquo;Take to your wigwam, pale face, the
+      maiden you have loved; keep and take care of the wild flower which you
+      have sought and trained to await your coming, or the big wind shall hurl
+      you to the earth!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Harold evaded the demand, and finally induced the young Indian to wait
+      until the next day, when they should see Narramattah together, and then he
+      would decide. But the deceitful Englishman did not intend to see the
+      maiden, he had wronged, again. It was a mere ruse to escape the Indian&rsquo;s
+      vengeance for a time. The next day, when Pakanke came for Harold he was
+      not to be found at the cabin; and Pakanka turned to Narramattah, to tell
+      her of her wrongs, and his burning resolve to revenge them. The poor,
+      trusting forest maiden seemed as if struck speechless by the information
+      that Harold had fled, after declaring that he never intended to take her
+      to his wigwam. The wild flower was crushed by the ruthless blast; and her
+      mind, unable to withstand the shock, became distracted. When Pakanke arose
+      in the morning, his sister was gone. He searched eagerly every where in
+      the neighborhood of the village for her, but in vain. At length news was
+      brought him that Narrantattah&rsquo;s mangled body had been found at the foot of
+      a high precipice, near the Wissahicon creek. He hurried to the spot, and
+      found the information true.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The distracted girl had either thrown herself from the precipice, or
+      accidentally fallen from it in her wanderings. Pakanke paused to drop the
+      few tears of grief forced from his eyes; and then, over his sister&rsquo;s body,
+      bade the Great Spirit mark his vow, never to rest until the murderer of
+      his sister had met the fate he deserved. The body of Narramattah was given
+      to her friends to be placed in the cold grave near her father; and many
+      were the tears shed for her unhappy fate, by the Delaware women.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Pakanke, alone, again sought the cabins of the Englishmen, and this time,
+      he found the object of his search. Harold Dean, calculating the exact time
+      of Pakanke&rsquo;s visit on the day before, had gone with his friends on a
+      hunting expedition far into the country, and had returned with them to the
+      cabins just before Pakanke arrived. He calculated that the Indian would be
+      satisfied with any trifling excuse invented for the occasion, and did not
+      dream that the affair had reached a tragic crisis. Pakanke&rsquo;s appearance in
+      the cabin surprised him. The Indian was unusually calm and collected, and
+      betrayed no sign of any but the most peaceable intentions. He said he came
+      for Harold to fulfil his promise to accompany him to the wigwam; and
+      finding there could be no further evasion, Harold consented to accompany
+      him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The two hunters left the cabins and proceeded through the woods, as Harold
+      thought, towards the Delaware village, but as Pakanke knew, in a different
+      direction. They spoke occasionally, concerning hunting and the game of the
+      season; but the Indian was afraid to trust himself to many words, and
+      Harold was meditating some plan of escape from the proposed marriage. At
+      length they approached what seemed to be a deep ravine, and Harold&rsquo;s eye
+      wandered around for the best place for crossing. They were nearing the
+      high over-hanging precipice, and Pakanke knew it. &ldquo;This is the best
+      crossing,&rdquo; said he to Harold, as they approached the tree-covered edge of
+      the rock from which Narramattah had thrown herself, or fallen. &ldquo;This is
+      rather a disagreeable path, I think,&rdquo; said Harold, as he looked over to
+      the opposite bank of the creek. &ldquo;It leads to thy grave!&rdquo; shrieked Pakanke,
+      as, with an effort, made giant strong by passion, he snatched Harold&rsquo;s
+      rifle, stabbed him in the back, and hurled him from the rock. Then he
+      leaned over its edge to look down. The rock was about one hundred feet
+      high, and its top projected far beyond its base. Harold shrieked as he was
+      thrown from the rock, but all was soon over. Pakanke saw, as he leaned
+      over the edge, that his victim had been literally dashed to pieces; and a
+      smile of gratified revenge appeared upon his lips as he turned away to
+      descend to the spot, to secure the scalp. After this customary trophy from
+      a conquered foe had been obtained, Pakanke returned to the Delaware
+      village, and gladdened the ears of the chiefs and warriors with the
+      circumstances of his exploit. He then sent information of it to Harold&rsquo;s
+      friends, accompanied with an assurance that if they were snakes they would
+      be served in the same way, but if friends, they would not be disturbed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The terrible death of Harold appalled the young Englishmen, and they were
+      so mistrustful of the good intentions of the red men, that they
+      unanimously resolved to quit the vicinity and return to the settlement at
+      once. Accordingly, the most valuable of their skins and all their
+      necessary articles of clothing, and their fire-arms, were packed up, the
+      cabins set on fire, and they set out for the settlement. Two of them
+      remained in Philadelphia, the others returned to England, and conveyed the
+      news of the death of Harold Dean to his parents. They were not
+      disconsolate, although they wept for him. He had always been a wild spirit
+      and a bad son, and his treachery to poor Narramattah was but one
+      additional item in a catalogue of such deeds, which had made his fame
+      ignoble in England.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0130" id="linkimage-0130"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0390m.jpg" alt="0390m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0390.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0131" id="linkimage-0131"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0392m.jpg" alt="0392m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0392.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0132" id="linkimage-0132"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0393m.jpg" alt="0393m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0393.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0033" id="link2H_4_0033"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      BIENVILLE&rsquo;S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE CHICKASAWS.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0133" id="linkimage-0133"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;">
+      <img src="images/9393.jpg" alt="9393 " width="100%" /><br /> <a
+      href="images/9393.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      AFTER the destruction of the power of the Natchez Indians, by the French,
+      in 1731, the remnant of that nation took refuge among the powerful and
+      ferocious tribe of Chickasaws, who were the determined and uncompromising
+      enemies of the colonists of Louisiana. The united nations could bring a
+      large and efficient force into the field; and besides, they had five
+      strong palisaded forts, and many fortified villages. Bienville, governor
+      of Louisiana, could only command about three hundred Frenchmen at the
+      commencement of the war; but the Choctaws were his allies, and although
+      not the best and bravest of warriors, their aid was valuable. A desultory
+      warfare was carried on until early in 1736, when the French government
+      sent additional troops to Bienville, and ordered him to undertake an
+      expedition against the Chickasaws.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In obedience to these instructions, Bienville had sent word to the younger
+      D&rsquo;Arta-guette, the commander of the Illinois district, to collect all the
+      French and Indian forces he could control, and to meet him on the 31st of
+      March, 1736, at the Chickasaw villages. In the month of January of that
+      year, Bienville drew from Natchez, Natchitoches, and the Balize all the
+      officers and soldiers he could muster, without weakening too much the
+      garrisons stationed at those places. He formed a company of volunteers,
+      composed of traders and transient persons then in New Orleans, and another
+      company of unmarried men belonging to the city, and which was called the
+      &ldquo;company of bachelors.&rdquo; A depot of ammunition, provisions, and all that
+      was necessary for the intended campaign was established on the Tombigbee,
+      at the distance of two hundred and seventy miles from Mobile, where the
+      several detachments of the army were sent, through the Lakes, as fast as
+      conveyances could be procured. Several large vessels containing provisions
+      and utensils of every sort were despatched down the Mississippi to Mobile,
+      and on the 4th of March, Bienville departed from New Orleans, leaving
+      behind him only four companies of regulars under Noyan, which were to
+      follow him as soon as they could be transported. The boats having to
+      struggle against adverse winds, the whole of the French forces did not
+      reach Mobile before the 22d, and it was only on the 28th, that the last of
+      the vessels carrying provisions entered the harbor, when it was discovered
+      that her cargo had been much damaged by the sea. On the 1st of April, the
+      expedition left Mobile, and it was only on the 23d that the army reached
+      the Tombigbee depot, after having had to contend against currents,
+      freshets, storms, and constant rains.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While waiting for the arrival of the Choctaws, Bienville reviewed his
+      troops, and found them to consist of five hundred and forty-four white
+      men, excluding the officers, forty-five negroes, and a body of Indians. At
+      length six hundred Choctaw warriors arrived, and the army resumed its
+      march. On the 22d of May, it encamped about twenty-seven miles from the
+      Chickasaw villages. On the 23d, Bienville ordered fortifications to be
+      constructed for the protection of his boats, and placed twenty men under
+      Captain Vanderck in them. The next day, the army with provisions for
+      twelve days, marched six miles further, and encamped on account of a
+      tempest. On the 25th, within the space of twelve miles, the army had to
+      cross three deep ravines running through a thick cane-brake, and had to
+      wade through water rising up to the waist. It then emerged on a beautiful
+      open prairie, on the edge of which they encamped, at the distance of six
+      miles from the Chickasaw villages.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The intention of Bienville was to turn round those villages of the
+      Chickasaws to march upon the village of the Natchez, which was in the
+      rear, and to attack first those whom he considered as the instigators of
+      the Chickasaw war. But the Choctaws insisted with such pertinacity upon
+      attacking the Villages which were nearer, and which, they said contained
+      more provisions than that of the Natchez, and they represented with such
+      warmth, that, in the needy condition in which they were, it was absolutely
+      necessary they should take possession of these provisions, that Bienville
+      yielded to their importunities. The prairie, in which these villages were
+      situated, covered a space of about six miles. The villages were small, and
+      built in the shape of a triangle, on a hillock sloping down to a brook
+      which was almost dry; further off was the main body of the Chickasaw
+      villages, and the smaller ones seemed to be a sort of vanguard. The
+      Choctaws having informed Bienville that he would find water no where else,
+      he ordered the army to file off close to the wood which enclosed the
+      prairie, in order to reach another hillock that was in sight. There the
+      troops halted to rest and take nourishment. It was past twelve o&rsquo;clock.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indian scouts whom Bienville had sent in every direction to look for
+      tidings of D&rsquo;Artaguette, whom he had expected to operate his junction with
+      him on this spot, had come back and brought no information. It was
+      evident, therefore, that he could no longer hope for the co-operation on
+      which he had relied, and that he had to trust only to his own resources.
+      It was impossible to wait; and immediate action was insisted upon by the
+      Choctaws and the French officers, who thought that the three small
+      villages, which have been described, and which were the nearest to them,
+      were not capable of much resistance. Bienville yielded to the
+      solicitations of his allies and of his troops, and at two in the
+      afternoon, ordered his nephew Noyan, to begin the attack, and to put
+      himself at the head of a column composed of a company of grenadiers, of
+      detachments of fifteen men taken from each one of the eight companies of
+      the French regulars, of sixty-five men of the Swiss troops, and forty-five
+      volunteers.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The French had approached within carbine shot of the forts, and at that
+      distance, could plainly distinguish Englishmen, who appeared to be very
+      active in assisting the Chickasaws in preparing their defence, and who had
+      hoisted up their flag on one of the forts. Bienville recommended that they
+      should not be assailed, if they thought proper to retire, and in order to
+      give them time, should they feel so disposed, he ordered to confine the
+      attack to the village, named Ackia, which flag was the most remote from
+      the one under the English flag.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The order of the attack being given, the division commanded by Noyan moved
+      briskly on, and under the protection of mantelets carried by the company
+      of negroes, arrived safely at the foot of the hill on which the villages
+      stood. But there, one of the negroes being killed, and another wounded,
+      the rest flung down the mantelets, and took to their heels. The French
+      pushed on, and penetrated into the village, with the company of grenadiers
+      at their head. But being no longer under cover, and much exposed to the
+      fire of the enemy, their losses were very heavy. The noble and brilliant
+      Chevalier de Contre Coeur, a favorite in the army, was killed, and a
+      number of soldiers shared his fate, or were disabled. However, three of
+      the principal fortified cabins were carried by the impetuosity of the
+      French, with several smaller ones which were burned. But as a pretty
+      considerable intervening space remained to be gone over, to assail the
+      chief fort and the other fortified cabins, when it became necessary to
+      complete the success obtained, Noyan, who had headed the column of attack,
+      turning round, saw that he had with him only the officers belonging to the
+      head of the column, some grenadiers, and a dozen of volunteers. The troops
+      had been dismayed by the death of Captain De Lusser, of one of the
+      sergeants of the grenadiers, and of some of the soldiers of this company
+      who had fallen, when they had attempted to cross the space separating the
+      last cabin taken from the next to be taken; seeking for shelter against
+      the galling fire of the enemy, they had clustered behind the cabins of
+      which they had already taken possession, and it was impossible for the
+      officers who commanded the tail of the column, to drive them away, either
+      by threats, promises, or words of exhortation, from their secure position.
+      Pitting themselves at the head of a few of their best soldiers, in order
+      to encourage the rest, the officers resolved to make a desperate attempt
+      to storm the fortified block-house they had in front of them. But in an
+      instant, their commander, the Chevalier de Noyan, D&rsquo;Hauterive, the captain
+      of the grenadiers, Grondel, lieutenant of the Swiss, De Yelles, Montbrun,
+      and many other officers were disabled. Still keeping his ground, De Noyan
+      sent his aid-de-camp, De Juzan, to encourage and bring up to him the
+      wavering soldiers, who had slunk behind the cabins. But, in making this
+      effort, this officer was killed, and his death increased the panic of the
+      troops.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Grondel, who had fallen near the walls of the enemy, had been abandoned,
+      and a party of Indians was preparing to sally out to scalp him, when a
+      sergeant of grenadiers, ashamed of the cowardice which had left an officer
+      in this perilous and defenceless position, took with him four of his men,
+      and rushed to the rescue of Grondel, without being intimidated by bullets
+      as thick as hail. These five intrepid men reached in safety the spot where
+      Grondel lay, and they were in the act of lifting him up to carry him away,
+      when a general discharge from the fort prostrated every one of them dead
+      by the side of him they had come to save. But this noble deed was not lost
+      upon the army; the electrical stroke had been given, and was responded to
+      by the flashing out of another bright spark of heroism. A grenadier, named
+      Regnisse, rather inflamed than dastardized by the fate of his companions,
+      dashed out of the ranks of his company, ran headlong to the place where
+      Grondel lay weltering in his blood, from the five wounds he had received,
+      took him on his athletic shoulders, and carried him away in triumph, amid
+      the general acclamations and enthusiastic bravos of those who witnesses
+      the feat. To the astonishment of all, he had the good luck to pass
+      unscathed through the fire which was poured upon him by the enemy, but the
+      inanimate body of Grondel which he was transporting received a sixth
+      wound. So generously saved from the Indian tomahawk, this officer slowly
+      recovered, and when subsequently raised to a high rank in the French army.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Noyan, seeing at last that he was exposing himself and his brave
+      companions in vain and fainting from the effects of his wounds, ordered a
+      retreat from the open field, and taking shelter in one of the cabins, sent
+      word to Bienville, that he had lost about seventy men, and that if prompt
+      relief was not sent the detachment would be annihilated. On hearing this
+      report, Bienville sent Beauchamp with a reserve of eighty men, to support
+      the troops engaged, and to bring off the wounded and dead. Beauchamp
+      reached the spot where the little band of Frenchmen was concentrated, and
+      where the strife had been hottest. Seeing that no headway could be made he
+      covered the retreat of the band, and brought off to the French camp most
+      of the wounded and dead. The Choctaws, who had left the French to shift
+      for themselves, seeing them retreat, wished to show their spirit, and made
+      a movement, as if to storm the village. But a general discharge from the
+      enemy, killing twenty-two of their men caused them to make a retrogade
+      movement, much to the amusement of the French. The battle had lasted
+      during three hours, and when evening came, the scene was as quiet as if
+      the blast of war had never scared the birds from the trees or the cattle
+      from the plain.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      After the severe repulse which the French had met, nothing remained but
+      for them to retreat. Bienville saw that he could not depend upon the
+      Choctaws, and the fortifications of the Chickasaws were too strong to be
+      carried without cannon and mortars. On the 22d of May, the day following
+      that of the battle of Ackia, Bienville had litters made to transport the
+      wounded; and at one in the afternoon, the army formed itself into two
+      columns, which had been the order of marching in coming, it began its
+      retrogade movement. The troops were much worn out with the fatigue they
+      had undergone, and the labor of transporting the baggage and wounded was
+      difficult. Slow marching disgusted the Choctaws, and one portion of them,
+      headed by the chief Red Shoe, wished to abandon the French. But the more
+      numerous part, aided by the eloquence of Bienville, succeeded in inducing
+      them to remain.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the 29th, the French reached the place where they had left their boats.
+      They found the river falling fast, and they hastened to embark the same
+      day. After a laborious passage, they arrived at Tombigbee on the 2d of
+      June, and from, thence returned to New Orleans. The expedition had been
+      well planned, and vigorously executed, but unforseen circumstances
+      defeated it. The Chickasaws had proven much better warriors than they had
+      been thought to be, and had defended themselves with an obstinacy as
+      unexpected as it was successful. The English supported that tribe in their
+      war with the French, and they were thus enabled to main-themselves against
+      all the expeditions sent against them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a name="linkimage-0134" id="linkimage-0134"> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:65%;">
+      <img src="images/0406m.jpg" alt="0406m " width="100%" /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h5>
+      <a href="images/0406.jpg"><i>Original</i></a>
+    </h5>
+    <div style="height: 6em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+
+<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 45385 ***</div>
+</body>
+</html>
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author	nfenwick <nfenwick@pglaf.org>	2025-03-01 14:24:15 -0800
committer	nfenwick <nfenwick@pglaf.org>	2025-03-01 14:24:15 -0800
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