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 . dian neighbours, with whom he had alwayslived on friendly terms. He knew the superior facilitywith which the Indians, who are in the habit of con-stantly roaming the woods, can detect and distinguishobjects of sight and sound. Osamee, for that was the name of the friendly In-dian, immediately went to the house of the parents,and looking attentively round it, soon discovered thelittle footste
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 . dian neighbours, with whom he had alwayslived on friendly terms. He knew the superior facilitywith which the Indians, who are in the habit of con-stantly roaming the woods, can detect and distinguishobjects of sight and sound. Osamee, for that was the name of the friendly In-dian, immediately went to the house of the parents,and looking attentively round it, soon discovered thelittle footsteps of a child and the direction which theyhad taken; and although the childs father couldhardly discover the marks and signs by which he wasguided, he followed the track with as much apparentease and confidence as a civilized traveller would aturnpike road, and after tracing it for about threemiles into the forest, he found the poor child lyingunder a tree, crying bitterly, and almost perishingwith cold. This little incident was the means of reconcihngsome of the white people to the near settlement ofthe Indians, of whom they had been in dread; butthey now rather rejoiced in having such good neigh-. WA-NOU AND THE ENGLISH OFFICER. 215 bours; and it would have been well for both partiesif the good feelings shown by the Indians to the firstsettlers in some hundreds of instances had met withsuch a return as men calling themselves Christianswere bound to make; but, alas ! it was far otherwise. An anecdote which has been preserved, concerningan old Mohegan Indian named Wanou, affords a strik-ing example of the strong affection of a father towardshis only son. During the frequent wars which took place betweenthe Indians and the white men, the former had de-feated a party of English soldiers, and put them toflight. The retreat being without order, a youngEnglish officer, in attempting to escape, was pursuedby two of the savages, and finding an escape imprac-ticable, he determined to s
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