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 . o had befriended theIndian had occasion to go some distance into thewilderness between Litchfield and Albany, which isnow a populous city, but then contained only a fewhouses. Here he was taken prisoner by an Indianscout, and carried off into Canada. When he arrivedat the principal settlement of their tribe, whichwas on the banks of the great river St. Lawrence,some of the Indians proposed t
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 . o had befriended theIndian had occasion to go some distance into thewilderness between Litchfield and Albany, which isnow a populous city, but then contained only a fewhouses. Here he was taken prisoner by an Indianscout, and carried off into Canada. When he arrivedat the principal settlement of their tribe, whichwas on the banks of the great river St. Lawrence,some of the Indians proposed that he should be putto death, in revenge for the wrongs that they hadsuffered from the white men; and this probably wouldhave been his fate, had not an old Indian woman, orsquaw, as they are called, demanded that he shouldbe given up to her, that she might adopt him in placeof her son, whom she had lately lost in war. He wasaccordingly given to her, and, as it is customary undersuch circumstances, was thenceforth treated in thesame manner as her own son. In the following summer, as he was one day atwork in the forest by himself, felling trees, an Indian,who was unknown to him, came up and asked him. Indian Gratitude. INDIA^ GRATITUDE. 71 to meet him the following day at a certain spot whichhe described. The white man agreed to do so, butnot without some apprehension that mischief wasintended. During the night these fears increased toso great a degree, as effectually to prevent his keep-ing his appointment. However, a few days after, the same Indian, find-ing him again at work, gravely reproved him for notkeeping his promise. The man made the best ex-cuses he could, but the Indian was not satisfied untilhe had again promised to meet him the next morningat the place already agreed on. Accordingly, when he arrived at the spot, he foundthe Indian already there, provided with two musketsand powder, and two knapsacks. The Indian orderedhim to take one of each, and to follow him. The
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