. The back-woodsmen; or, Tales of the borders; a collection of historical and authentic accounts of early adventure among the Indians. oposition was no sooner made than it wasagreed to. The spies put spurs to their horses;and, dashing into the camp, halted, laid their riflesacross the pummels of their saddles, and engaged infriendly conversation with the Indian warriors, whowere sitting peaceably around their fires smokingtheir pipes. McClellan and Wells asked them manyquestions regarding the supposed strength of GeneralWayne, his probable intentions, and the preparationswhich had been made to
. The back-woodsmen; or, Tales of the borders; a collection of historical and authentic accounts of early adventure among the Indians. oposition was no sooner made than it wasagreed to. The spies put spurs to their horses;and, dashing into the camp, halted, laid their riflesacross the pummels of their saddles, and engaged infriendly conversation with the Indian warriors, whowere sitting peaceably around their fires smokingtheir pipes. McClellan and Wells asked them manyquestions regarding the supposed strength of GeneralWayne, his probable intentions, and the preparationswhich had been made to resist him; to all of whichthe Indians replied very fully, volunteering much use-ful information. As the warriors became more com-municative, the spies grew more inquisitive and bois-terous ; and finally the suspicions of the enemy wereawakened, and some of the braves arose and wentfor their rifles. At this point an old Indian, whohad been watching them closely, was heard to re-mark, in an undertone, that he fancied that thesemen were bent on mischief. Instantly Captain Wellsgave the signal for attack; each man leveled his gun,. THE RANGERS RIDE INTO THE INDIAN* CAMP. SPY—LIFE.—ROBERT McCLELLAN. and four Indians fell dead. Lying down on the backsof their horses, the spies rode swiftly away, and weresoon out of the light of the camp-fires. Their indis-cretion had, however, been so ereat, that some ofthe Indians were apprised of their purpose, and wereon eiiard ; so that, before thev had time to get outof range, they were overtaken by a volley of received a serious wound from a ball whichentered his body under the shoulder-blade and cameout at the shoulder; while Captain Wells was shotthrough the arm, and his wound was so sharp andpainful that he was obliged to drop his rifle. Thehorse of one of the party (Mr. May; slipped on asmooth rock and fell with its rider, who, before hecould rise, was overtaken by the Indians, carried tothe camp, and the next day ti
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