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 . intothe prisoners back, which broke, and a part was leftburied in the wound. The whole party now returnedbefore the fort—the wounded man singing his death-song. He was borne off by his friends into a thicket,in the prairie, where all their efforts to extract thebroken blade proved ineffectual; and the next day ortwo he died. The Spider, a brother of the murderer, and thenat Kaskaskia, hearin
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 . intothe prisoners back, which broke, and a part was leftburied in the wound. The whole party now returnedbefore the fort—the wounded man singing his death-song. He was borne off by his friends into a thicket,in the prairie, where all their efforts to extract thebroken blade proved ineffectual; and the next day ortwo he died. The Spider, a brother of the murderer, and thenat Kaskaskia, hearing of the predicament which hadbefallen the latter, hastened to Yincennes; but deathhad closed the scene. He came in time, however, toattend the funeral. When the body was about to beconsigned to the earth, he opened the blanket whichenveloped the corpse, and taking off a silver orna-ment which encompassed his head, he bound it aroundthat of the defunct, saying, There, brother! thiswill bring you respect in the land of spirits. * He was a judge of the supreme court of the North-western Ter-ritory, and then upon the circuit to open the courts through thatextensive region. 432 THRILLING The following was communicated to the Cincinnativ^xironicle, in the autumn of 1829, by a gentleman, insubstance, as related below. He received it from themouth of Ash himself, who resides on the Ohio, inIndiana, upon lands first presented to him by theIndians, and afterwards confirmed, in jfart, by Con-gress—he jpaying for the same. We copy it from Tur-ners Traits of Indian Character: My father, John Ash, was one of the earliestemigrants to Kentucky, and settled near Bardstown,Nelson county, many miles from any other whitesettlement. In the month of March, 1780, when Iwas about ten years of age, we were attacked by theShawnee Indians; a part of the family was killed, therest were taken prisoners. We were separated fromeach other, and, excepting a younger sister, who wastaken by the
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