Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ly sustained him in his exertions to keep his boat trimmed andheaded for the land. When morning dawned, the outline of the Canada shore greetedhis eyes, and he found he had made land in the vicinity of Long he met with another difficulty, in an adverse wind and heavybreakers; but the same hand which had sustained him thus farguided him in this emergency, and after thirty hours of unremitting and incredible exertions, he su
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ly sustained him in his exertions to keep his boat trimmed andheaded for the land. When morning dawned, the outline of the Canada shore greetedhis eyes, and he found he had made land in the vicinity of Long he met with another difficulty, in an adverse wind and heavybreakers; but the same hand which had sustained him thus farguided him in this emergency, and after thirty hours of unremitting and incredible exertions, he suc-ceeded in landing in his emotions were on again- treading the green and solidj; earth, we shall not attempt to in-quire, but his trials were not yet»\ ended. He found himself faintwith hunger, and exhausted withfatigue, at the distance of fortymiles from any human habitation,while the country that intervened was a desert filled with marshesand tangled thickets, from which nothing could be obtained to supplyhis wants. These difficulties, together with the reduced state of hisstrength, made his progress toward the settlement slow and ON THE CANADA SHORE. A PERILOUS ADVENTURE IN A CANOE. 61 On his way he found a quantity of goods which had been thrownashore from the wreck of some vessel, which, although they affordedhim no immediate relief, were afterward of material service. Aftera long and weary march through the wilderness he arrived at lengthat the settlement, where he was received and treated with greatkindness and hospitality by the people. When his strength was sufficiently recruited he procured a boatand went in search of his goods. These he found and brought then started overland for Buffalo, where he disposed of part ofhis treasure, and with the proceeds furnished himself with a com-plete outfit, and finding the Traveler, Captain Charles Brown, fromConneaut, in the harbor, he engaged passage on board of her. Thecaptain and crew had heard
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