Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . e. Immediately after, another squaw entered, andshe was as soon followed by another. Each of the three stood closely wrapped in a blanket, but saidnothing. After a long pause, the presiding warrior bade them begone. The wife replied that the council must change its determina-tion, and leave her adopted son, the good white man, alone. Thecommand was repeated. Suddenly each of the women, throwingaside her blanket, brandished a knife, a
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . e. Immediately after, another squaw entered, andshe was as soon followed by another. Each of the three stood closely wrapped in a blanket, but saidnothing. After a long pause, the presiding warrior bade them begone. The wife replied that the council must change its determina-tion, and leave her adopted son, the good white man, alone. Thecommand was repeated. Suddenly each of the women, throwingaside her blanket, brandished a knife, and declared that if thesentence was executed, she would plunge it into her bosom. So strange a scene amazed even Indians ; they regarded theunheard-of procedure of a womans interfering with a national coun-cil as an interposition of the Great Spirit. The will of their deitywas implicitly obeyed, the decree reversed on the spot, and thejudge dismissed with honor. 360 THE murderers ORDEAL. THE MUKDSIIER»S ORDEAL-A CALIFORNIAITS STORY. I WAS always fond of the science of physiognomy. From rayyouth up I was noted for my proclivity for reading the character of. I WAS STARTLED FROM SLEEP, BY CRIES OF MURPER ! MUKDEU ! HELP! HELP! a man from his face; and I finally became such an adept in the artthat I could occasionally guess the very thoughts of the individualwhose countenance I was studying. Soon after the gold fever broke out, I went to California; andthere, I must confess, among what else there was to interest me, Ihad a grand opportunity of exercising my skill upon all sorts offaces, seen under all sorts of circumstances, from the highesttriumph of success to the deepest despair of failure. I first triedmy luck at digging gold myself, but soon tired of that, and believingI could make money faster and with less labor, I opened a kind ofgrocery aad provision store, and went regularly into the business of THE MURDERERS ORDEAL. 361 trade, buying most of my articles at Sacramento, g
Size: 1874px × 1334px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, booksubjectfrontierandpioneerli
