. Brethren's Almanac (1876). late of a)dern epicure could wish. Their clothes wereide chiefly of the skins of animals, and weresily procured, and although calculated to give aotesque appearance to a fine gentleman in a cityawiug-room; yet th^jy were particularly suited topjieir situation, and afforded them they spent some years entirely unmolested] the Indians, although a destructive war waslen waging, and prosecuted with cruelty, alongle whole extent of our frontier. At length to ob-in an additional supply of ammunition, salt andliirting, Dr. Eckarly left Cheat, with a pack ofirs
. Brethren's Almanac (1876). late of a)dern epicure could wish. Their clothes wereide chiefly of the skins of animals, and weresily procured, and although calculated to give aotesque appearance to a fine gentleman in a cityawiug-room; yet th^jy were particularly suited topjieir situation, and afforded them they spent some years entirely unmolested] the Indians, although a destructive war waslen waging, and prosecuted with cruelty, alongle whole extent of our frontier. At length to ob-in an additional supply of ammunition, salt andliirting, Dr. Eckarly left Cheat, with a pack ofirs and skins, to visit a trading post on the She-mduah. On his return, he stopped at Ft. Pleas-it, on tbe South Branch; and having communi-ated to its inhabitants the place of his residence,jiod the length of time he had been living there,e was charged with being in confederacy withle Indians, and probably at that instant a spy,samining the condition of the fort. In vain the?ootor protested his innocenco and the fact that he. had not even seen an Indian in the country; thesuffering condition of the border settlements, ren-dered his account, in their opinion, improbable, andhe was put in confinement. The society, of which Dr. Eckarly was a mem-ber, was rather obnoxious to a majority of thefrontier inhabitants. Their intimacy with the In-dians, although cultivated with the most laudablemotives, and for noble purposes, yet made themobjects at least of distrust to many. Laboringunder ihese disadvantages, it was with difficultythat Dr. Eckarly prevailed on the officer of theFort to release him, and when this was done, hewas only permitted to go home under certain con-ditions—he was to be escorted by a guard of armedmen, who were to carry him back if any discoverywere made prejudicial to him. Upon their arrivalat Cheat, the truth of his statement was awfullyconfirmed. The first spectacle that presented it-self to their view, when the party came withinsight of where the cabin had been
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