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 . o seize some strag-gling Frenchman about Ticonderoga or Crown Point,and bring him to the fort, for the sake of obtainingintelligence. He was himself of the party. A narrowroad, or rather path, led northward toward Canada,and they followed it for several hours. There hadjust been a heavy fall of snow; all the pines andhemlocks in the forest were loaded thick with it; andas the afternoon was s
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 . o seize some strag-gling Frenchman about Ticonderoga or Crown Point,and bring him to the fort, for the sake of obtainingintelligence. He was himself of the party. A narrowroad, or rather path, led northward toward Canada,and they followed it for several hours. There hadjust been a heavy fall of snow; all the pines andhemlocks in the forest were loaded thick with it; andas the afternoon was still and clear, only occasionalflakes or light masses dropped from the burdenedboughs like feathers. These circumstances werestamped on the old mans mind, seeming like a con-stantly recurring dream. The rangers waded inIndian file through the snow, and as danger was ap-prehended, a man was placed some rods in advance,one on each flank, and another behind. This last,was the doctor himself, and this was the gun I car-ried, said he, taking a short heavy piece from acorner. They saw no signs of the enemy: there wasno sound but the note of the little Chick-a-dee-dee,familiar to the pine woods in D
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