Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . g man named Clarke, and go on a secretexpedition to an Indian town on the Little Miami, against whichthe Colonel meditated an expedition, and of the exact condition ofwhich he wished to have certain information. They instantly setout, in obedience to their orders, and reached the neighborhoodof the town without being discovered. They examined it atten-tively, and walked around the houses during the night with perfectimpunity. Thus fa
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . g man named Clarke, and go on a secretexpedition to an Indian town on the Little Miami, against whichthe Colonel meditated an expedition, and of the exact condition ofwhich he wished to have certain information. They instantly setout, in obedience to their orders, and reached the neighborhoodof the town without being discovered. They examined it atten-tively, and walked around the houses during the night with perfectimpunity. Thus far all had gone well; and had they been contentedto return after the due execution of their orders, they would haveavoided the heavy calamnity which awaited them. But, unfortunately, during their nightly promenade, they stumbledupon a pound in which were a number of Indian horses. The temp-tation was not to be resisted. They each mounted a horse, but not ADVENTURES OP SIMON KENTON. 193 satisfied with that, they could uot find it in their hearts to leave asingle animal behind them, and as some of the horses seemed indis-posed to changemasters, the affair was. KESTON AND MONTGOMERY RUNNING OFF THE INDIAN HORSES. attended with so much fracas, that at last they were cry ran through the village at once, that the Long Knives werestealing their horses right before the doors of their wigwams, andold and young, squaws, boys, and warriors, all sallied out with loudscreams to save their property from these greedy spoilers. Kentonand his friends quickly discovered that they had overshot the mark,and that they must ride for their lives; and while two of them rodein front and led, the other brought up the rear, and plying his whipfrom right to left, did not permit a single animal to lag behind. In this manner they dashed through the woods at a furious ratewith the hue and cry after them, until their course was suddenlystopped by an impenetrable swamp. Here, from necessity, they
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