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 . extmorning found the bodies of the rangers stripped, andfrozen in the various positions in which they died, sothat they appeared like marble statues. On a treeclose by, the French officer who commanded theAbenakis had fastened a piece of birch bark, inscribedwith an insolent and triumphant message to theEnglish. The bodies of the two Indians had beenremoved, although the white snow around th
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 . extmorning found the bodies of the rangers stripped, andfrozen in the various positions in which they died, sothat they appeared like marble statues. On a treeclose by, the French officer who commanded theAbenakis had fastened a piece of birch bark, inscribedwith an insolent and triumphant message to theEnglish. The bodies of the two Indians had beenremoved, although the white snow around the oldpine tree retained ineffaceable marks of the tragedythat had been enacted there, and was beaten hardby the moccasins of a crowd of savages who had ga-thered about that place. The taste of war was enough for the doctors mar-tial zeal. He did not take the field again till twentyyears afterward, when he came to Washingtons campat Cambridge, armed with probe and balsam, insteadof a musket and powder. The early history of Kentucky is one continuedseries of daring and romantic adventures. Had thefounder of that State lived in the days of chivalricyore, his exploits would have been sung in connection. Butlers Mazeppa Adventure. THE AMERICAN MAZEPPA. 41 with those of Arthur and Orlando; and his followers,in the same region, would certainly have been knightsof the Round Table. The hero of our story was oneof these. Those who desire to inspect his adventure,by the light of romance, will not be displeased atlearning that his choice of a hunters life was deter-mined by a disappointment in the object of his earlylove. He was then only nineteen, yet he fearlesslyleft his native state, and sought, amid the unculti-vated wilds of Kentucky, the stirring enjoyment ofa western hunter. After rendering valuable serviceto the Virginia colony, as a spy and pioneer, he under-took a voyage of discovery to the country north ofthe Ohio. It was while thus engaged that he wastaken prisoner by the Indi
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