. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . At this critical moment, the Indian making a violentmovement, plunged the blade of his knife into the eye ofhis enemy, who, equally unable to recede or advance—held fast as he was by the weapon planted in the orbit ofhis eye—gave vent to his impotent rage by long and re-])eated yells. His rage finally prevailed over the instinctof prudence peculiar to his race; he prepared to spring;but a second blow of the stake overthrew his balance,and he fell on the river-bank w
. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . At this critical moment, the Indian making a violentmovement, plunged the blade of his knife into the eye ofhis enemy, who, equally unable to recede or advance—held fast as he was by the weapon planted in the orbit ofhis eye—gave vent to his impotent rage by long and re-])eated yells. His rage finally prevailed over the instinctof prudence peculiar to his race; he prepared to spring;but a second blow of the stake overthrew his balance,and he fell on the river-bank within gunshot range. Aloud report, produced by the simultaneous discharge ofour four barrels, nailed the animal to the ground, wherehe struggled for a few moments, and grew rigid in onefinal convulsion. The Indian whom accident had thus thrown in ourroute, and who afterwards followed us to St. Augustine,was no obscure hunter, but the celebrated Billy Bow-legs, who became chief of the Caribs of the Florida pen-insula, and whose tribe frequently disturbed the repose,and threatened the life, of the planters of
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