Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ground, and shocked atthe sight, besought the commanding officer, in the name of humanity,to spare his life. He granted his request with an insulting epithet,and the wounded man was carried into a neighboring house moredead than alive. His jitter exhaustion, combined with the brutaltreatment he had received, brought on a fever that reduced him solow that his life was despaired of. Having a strong constitution, 124 THE SEMINOLE CHIEFT
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ground, and shocked atthe sight, besought the commanding officer, in the name of humanity,to spare his life. He granted his request with an insulting epithet,and the wounded man was carried into a neighboring house moredead than alive. His jitter exhaustion, combined with the brutaltreatment he had received, brought on a fever that reduced him solow that his life was despaired of. Having a strong constitution, 124 THE SEMINOLE CHIEFTAINS TOUCHING APPEAL. he rallied, however, and was able a part of the next year to preachin the chapel, but his system had received a shock from which itcould not entirely recover, and in sixteen months he was borne tothe grave, adding one more to the list of noble souls who consideredno sacrifice too great for their country. THE SEMIlSrOLE CHIEFTAINS TOUCHING APPEAL. The talk of Coacoochee, or Wild Cat, to Col. Worth and tohis own people, exceeds, in point of pathos and deep feeling, anything we everheard. Wild Cathad repeated-ly deceivedthe officers, by. sat to my band that mt feet are chained. • * coming in, and after he had received supplies as an inducementfor his band to surrender, would make his escape and prosecute thewar with renewed activity. He was finally captured by MajorChilds and sent at once, with some fifteen others captured at thesame time, to Arkansas. At New Orleans they were met by ex-press orders from Col. Worth to return to Florida. He intended touse Coacoochees influence and bring the war to a close. THE SEMINOLE CHIEFTAINS TOUCHING APPEAL. 125 A captive, and in irons, he had been told by Worth, that he hadbeen brought back from Tampa Bay, for the purpose of aiding inbringing the war to a close at once. He was told that he mightselect five of his companions who should be permitted to go to hisband—then in the swamps—and induce them to come in. Name
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