The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . dead. A TEXAN INDIANS TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT OF A CAMANCHE SPY. A SHORT time before our army crossed the Rio Grande, a Texan I >.;.who had followed the army of General Taylor, observed a Carnanche In-dian, who had passed freely along the line, by the liberal usages of thecamp towards the Indians, lurking near the tent of the General and otherprominent officers. The Texan Indian walked up to him, and thus ad-dressed him:—I know you well^ I have w
The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . dead. A TEXAN INDIANS TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT OF A CAMANCHE SPY. A SHORT time before our army crossed the Rio Grande, a Texan I >.;.who had followed the army of General Taylor, observed a Carnanche In-dian, who had passed freely along the line, by the liberal usages of thecamp towards the Indians, lurking near the tent of the General and otherprominent officers. The Texan Indian walked up to him, and thus ad-dressed him:—I know you well^ I have watched your trail: you havebeen allowed to pass this camp^ you have eat of the rations of the kindsoldiers, and you are playing the spy. You must die! Here is my rifle—my tomahawk—my scalping-knife—I give you your choice of deaths. Bywhich will you die ? — I m in haste. The Indian, finding resistance invain, chose the rifle. He was now ordered to lie flat upon the ground,while, with his left foot upon the breast of his victim, the Texan chiefimmediately lodged the contents of the rifle in his head. A BUFFALO HUNT ON THE PRAIRIES,. AMOifG all the wild pursuits and cliases of the AVest, the buflalo hunt isthe most exciting and perilous. When pursued beyond a certain point,the animal becomes furious and formidable in the extreme. Sir WalterScatt has described The stag at bay, A dangerous foe. But the buffalo hunted to his lair, with life enough to resist, is a most ter-rific antagonist. Yet, their resistance, after all, is not the most fearful dan-ger to be apprehended in their pursuit, it is the awful and precipitous pathw^ith which they frequently entrap and destroy their pursuers, and whichwe shall endeavour to describe in one of the many actual adventures. A party of ten active horsemen, forming the advance-guard or escortof a caravan, descrying a herd of buffalos in the distance, and, being some-wiiai sIkv;. of provision, set off in full chase of the animals, with t
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