The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . he expanded jaws At l«ogth the agonizing stings of these attacks became insufierable, and w-e plunged :nto the stream, making as much noise aspossible, to scafe the alligators. A light in a barque across the DevilsRace ^ttacted our attention, and we struggled away for our very the alligators had, with astonishing sagacity, anticipated our course, andwere waiting for us in large numbers upon the bank, prepared to give usa warm, but, in our p
The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . he expanded jaws At l«ogth the agonizing stings of these attacks became insufierable, and w-e plunged :nto the stream, making as much noise aspossible, to scafe the alligators. A light in a barque across the DevilsRace ^ttacted our attention, and we struggled away for our very the alligators had, with astonishing sagacity, anticipated our course, andwere waiting for us in large numbers upon the bank, prepared to give usa warm, but, in our present circumstances, by no means an agreeable re-ception. The prospect was anything but pleasant, and the contemplationof it made more than one stout heart quake with fear. We were, how-ever, providentially enabled to escape them. We directed our course toa partially shivered rock, and, by pelting the alligators with the loosenedfragments, we succeeded in driving them into the water, and made goodour retreat, overjoyed at having escaped from the dangers which sur-rounded us. ONE OF KIT CARSONS MEN SHOOTING VULTURES IN THEROCKY Ajioitg the thousand dangers which beset the pathway of the travellerthrough the Rocky Mountains, the hungry and ferocious vulture is not theleast to be dreaded. The bold Kit Carson and his intrepid band havingencamped for a few days rest near a huge cliff denominated ArrowsPeak, by the Indians, were nightly assailed by large flocks of these fea-thered monsters, which ventured to their very wagons, on the scent ofsome of their animals, that might be dying with exposure or fatigue. Oneof Kits companions, known to be as true in courage as in aim, determinedto attack them in their haunts. Accordingly, he provided himself withtwo double-barrelled pieces, a knife, pistols, &e., and left the camp, alone,determined, as he said, to thin some of their surplus population, or becometheir prey. After reaching a fearful enclosure of high rocks and dark r
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