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They were very docile and contrite and obedient now, explaining that it was a customary safeguard, as hanged men had been revived more than once a flimsy excuse, indeed! "Very well," I said; "your shots may draw McCraw's whole force down on us. But doubtless you know much more than your officers like the militia at Oriskany."
The first human being that we encountered was a miller riding an ancient horse towards a lane which bordered a noisy brook. When he discovered us he whipped out a pistol and bade us stand where we were; and it took all my persuasion to convince him that we were not renegades from McCraw's band.
They do be pigtails on th' Dootch a fut long in the eel-skin. Faith, I saw McCraw's scalp 'twas wan o' Harrod's men tuk it, not I, sorr! an' 'twas red an' ratty, wid nary a lock to lift it, more shame to McCraw!" Mount stood, balancing now on his heels, now on his toes, inhaling and expelling his breath like a man who has had more than a morning draught of cider.
Also, to every house was affixed the number, sex, and age of its inhabitants, even down to the three-months babe in the cradle, the number of cattle, the amount of grain in the barns. Further, the Kingsland district of the county was divided into three sections, the first marked "McCraw's Operations," the second "Butler and Indians," the third "St. Leger's Indians and Royal Greens."
Permit me to add, with the full approval of Colonel Gansevoort, that the scout under your command warns the militia at Whitestown of the instant approach of Colonel Barry St. Leger's regular troops, reinforced by Sir John Johnson's regiment of Royal Greens, Colonel Butler's Rangers, McCraw's outlaws, and seven hundred Mohawk, Seneca, and Cayuga warriors under Brant and Walter Butler.
And on every side of us moved McCraw's riders, feeding their horses, smoking, laughing, playing at cards, or coming up to sniff the camp-kettle and poke the boiling meat with pointed sticks. Behind them, squatted in rows, sat two dozen Indians, watching us in ferocious silence.
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