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 . the age of one hundred j-ears, blind, unableto stand, wounded and captive, his courage was un-subdued. The prospect of power and incentive ofexample are the usual sources of splendid actions jit remains for the truly great soul to preserve itsequanimitj in the gloom of dungeons and the embraceof death. The exploits of this extraordinary man, in the\dgour of life, are unknown to us. We saw hi
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 . the age of one hundred j-ears, blind, unableto stand, wounded and captive, his courage was un-subdued. The prospect of power and incentive ofexample are the usual sources of splendid actions jit remains for the truly great soul to preserve itsequanimitj in the gloom of dungeons and the embraceof death. The exploits of this extraordinary man, in the\dgour of life, are unknown to us. We saw him onlyfor a short time on the edge of the horizon, but fromthe lustre of his departing beams, we may easily con-ceive what he was in his meridian blaze. In 1779, a Mr. Morgan, of Rickets Fort, WestVirginia, was surprised in the woods by two Indians,who immediately gave chase. Being old and some-what infirm, he faltered in the race, and was obligedto take refuge behind a tree: the Indians did thesame, but one of them exposing his body, was shotby Morgan, and, after falhng, stabbed hunself. Mor-gan again fled; but his surviving antagonist gainedrapidly u])on him, and at length raised his gun to Mr. Morgans Adventure. ENCOUNTER WITH TWO INDIANS. 175 Morgan adroitly stepped aside, and the ball passedhim. Then each rushed to closer combat. Morgan,while striking with his gun, received the Indianstomahawk, which cut off a finger, and knocked thegun from his grasp. Being an expert wrestler, heclosed, and threw his antagonist; but he was speedilyoverturned, when the Indian, uttering the customaryyell of triumph, began feeling for his knife. Its hiltwas entangled in a womans apron, which the savagehad tied round his waist; and this apparently trivialcircumstance saved the prostrate hunter. Duringthe search, Morgan had seized his antagonists fingerswith his teeth, a position in which he used all becom-ing exertions to keep them. Meanwhile he assistedin the search for the knife. The
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