Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . husiasm, to feel very naturalsymptoms of cold, fatigue, and even exhaustion. But it would notdo—he could not stop a moment before they were at him again—and there they persistently sat, that shaggy troop of connoisseurs, THE murderers CREEK. 379 fidgeting on their haunches, with lolling tongues and pricked ears,listening to their compulsory charmer, for several weary hours, untilthe negroes at the wedding, becoming impatient or alarm
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . husiasm, to feel very naturalsymptoms of cold, fatigue, and even exhaustion. But it would notdo—he could not stop a moment before they were at him again—and there they persistently sat, that shaggy troop of connoisseurs, THE murderers CREEK. 379 fidgeting on their haunches, with lolling tongues and pricked ears,listening to their compulsory charmer, for several weary hours, untilthe negroes at the wedding, becoming impatient or alarmed aboutthe old man, came out to look for him, and found him thus perchedupon the roof of the tottering hut, sawing away for dear life, whilehe was ready to drop every instant from sheer fatigue and the freez-ing cold. They rescued the old man from his comfortless position,while the lingering forms of his late audience told that they mostunwillingly surrendered the fruition of their unwonted feast. THE MURDEREKS CREEK. There is a little stream which runs into that most beautiful of allrivers, the noble Hudson, that still bears the name of the Murderers. BOUND TO .THE STAKE—AN INCIDENT OP SAVAGE WARFARE. Creek, though few perhaps can tell why it was so called. About acentury ago, the beautiful region watered by this stream was pos- 380 THE murderers creek. sessed by a small tribe of Indians, which has long since becomeextinct, or incorporated with some more powerful nation of thewest. Three or four hundred yards from the mouth of this littleriver, a white family of the name of Stacey had established itself ina log house, by tacit permission of the tribe, to whom Stacey hadmade himself useful by his skill in a variety of arts highly estimatedby the savages. In particular a friendship subsisted between himand an old Indian, called Naoman, who often came to his house,and partook of his hospitality. The family consisted of Stacey, hiswife, and two children, a boy and a girl, t
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