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On the 23d, the Rangers were sent across the plain, to take a position on the cleared land, next to Lake Champlain, near the breastwork. When we got there, we found ourselves close to a small intrenchment, and the men in it opened fire on us. "There's no sense, Ben, in standing here, to be shot at," said Martin. "No; let's drive them out of that intrenchment, and get behind it ourselves.
The regulars suffered much more than we did, for they had no rackets, and had been wallowing along in the deep snow. So many were frost-bitten that Rogers sent all the regulars back to Sabbath Day Point, and thirty Rangers with them. Amos went with this party. They were told to build fires to keep themselves warm, and to wait for us.
"There," said Charles, at length, "that's what I call doing it up brown. It almost pays off my debts. I don't think they will receive much benefit from those strawberries this year." "They have got some nice pears," said one of the Rangers, "and when they get ripe, we must plan another expedition." "That's so," answered Charles.
Many of Colonel Clarke's rangers, pleased with the beauty and fertility of the country, settled in Illinois; but the Indians were so numerous and hostile, that the settlers were obliged to live in fortified stations, or block-houses, and the population remained very scanty for many years. In 1809 Illinois was made into a separate Territory, and Ninian Edwards appointed its first Governor.
So the Stage Company began to negotiate with Colonel Boone to take the station, and he took it. This arrangement angered Mr. Haynes, and he reported to a Union Soldier that Colonel Boone was a rebel of the deepest dye, and further said that he had a company of Texas Rangers hidden, and intended to "clean out the country."
He became associated with the redoubtable leader of the hardy company of back-woodsmen known as "Rogers' Rangers," and he held his own with the best of them.
One of the most important tasks of the rangers in the Federal forests is to prevent forest fires. During the fire season, extra forest guards are kept busy hunting for signs of smoke throughout the forests. The lookouts in their high towers, which overlook large areas of forest, watch constantly for smoke, and as soon as they locate signs of fire they notify the supervisor of the forest.
Perhaps the Israelitish matrons stood sentry in rotation round the kitchens, while the young ladies scoured the country, as mounted rangers, to pick up stragglers by day, and patrolled the streets as city guards, keeping a sharp look-out at night. Their continuance in Jewish families depended upon the performance of various rites and ceremonies necessarily VOLUNTARY.
I ordered my Indians to engage them, and kind of get them down in the flat, where I could charge. After some running and shooting they did this, and I turned the Rangers loose. We drove them. The last stand they made they killed one of my Indians, wounded a Ranger, but left seven of their dead in a pile.
We had such raiders of our own, too, notably Captain James De Lancey's Westchester Light Horse, Simcoe's Rangers, and the Hessian yagers, who repaid the visits of our enemies by swift forays across the neutral ground between the two armies.
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