Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . from theSioux, and, during the night, dug holes in the ground,to which they might retreat and fight to the last ex-tremity. They appointed one of their number, theyoungest, to take a station at a distance and witnessthe struggle, and instructed him to make his escapeto their own country, when he had witnessed thedeath of all the rest, and state the circumstancesunder which they had fallen. E
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . from theSioux, and, during the night, dug holes in the ground,to which they might retreat and fight to the last ex-tremity. They appointed one of their number, theyoungest, to take a station at a distance and witnessthe struggle, and instructed him to make his escapeto their own country, when he had witnessed thedeath of all the rest, and state the circumstancesunder which they had fallen. Early in the morning they attacked the Sioux intheir camp, who, immediately sallying out upon them,forced them back to the last place of retreat they hadresolved upon. They fought desperately, and morethan twice their number were killed before they losttheir lives. Eight of them were tomahawked in theholes to which they retreated, and the other four fellon the field ; the thirteenth returned home accordingto the directions he had received, and related the cir-cumstances to his tribe. They mourned their death;but, delighted with the unexampled bravery of theirfriends, they were happy in their farmers brother. 421
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