Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ith no mercy from the Indians. He accordingly refrained,and plied his paddle, till the sweat rolled in big drops down hisforehead. All would not do; they reached the opposite shore, but werequickly overtaken, and carried back with shouts and yells oftriumph. The first thing the Indians did when they got ashore, was to setfire to Staceys house. They then dragged him, his wife and chil-dren, to their village.^^^^^^^^^^^^ /fe: Here the
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . ith no mercy from the Indians. He accordingly refrained,and plied his paddle, till the sweat rolled in big drops down hisforehead. All would not do; they reached the opposite shore, but werequickly overtaken, and carried back with shouts and yells oftriumph. The first thing the Indians did when they got ashore, was to setfire to Staceys house. They then dragged him, his wife and chil-dren, to their village.^^^^^^^^^^^^ /fe: Here the principal old^/ - $^^^4^^:-/ men, and Naoman among them, assem-bled to deliberate onthe affair. The chiefmen of the council ex-pressed their opinionthat some of the tribehad been guilty oftreason, in apprisingTHE FLIGHT AND THE PURSUIT. Staccy, thc whitc mau, of their designs, whereby they took alarm, and had well nigh es-caped. They proposed that the prisoners should be examined inorder to discover who was the traitor. The old men assented tothis, and one of them who spoke English, began by interrogatingStacey, and interpreted what was said to the THE murderers CREEK. 383 Stacey refused to betray his informant. His wife was then questioned, while two Indians stood threateningthe children with their uplifted tomahawks, in case she did not con-fess. She attempted to evade the truth, by pretending that she hada dream the night before, which had warned her to fly, and that shehad persuaded her husband to do so. The Great Spirit never deigns to talk in dreams to the whitefaces, said one of the old Indians. Woman, thou hast twotongues and two faces; speak the truth, or thy children shall surelydie. The little boy and girl were then brought close to her, and thetwo savages stood over them ready to execute their cruel orders. Wilt thou name that red man, said the old Indian, who be-trayed his tribe ? I will ask thee three times. The mother made no answer. Wilt thou name the t
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