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Updated: July 10, 2025
Finding the woods full of redskins and all retreat cut off, the troops, drawn up in a circle around their horses and supplies, fired with such effect as they could upon the shadowy forms in the forest. No water was obtainable, and in a few hours thirst began to make the soldiery unmanageable.
I told him I reckoned he would get his har raised if the Injuns came that way; but, in course, that's his business." "What do you advise, Pearson? I do not like abandoning this farm to the mercy of the redskins." "It would be a pity, Master Welch, that's as true as Gospel.
Accordingly when, on the fated morning, Pontiac and sixty redskins, carrying under long blankets their shortened muskets, appeared before the fort and asked admission, they were taken aback to find the whole garrison under arms. On their way from the gate to the council house they were obliged to march literally between rows of glittering steel. Well might even Pontiac falter.
About the middle of September the Indians became very troublesome on the line of the stage along the Sweetwater, between Split Rock and Three Crossings. A stage had been robbed and two passengers killed outright. Lem Flowers, the driver, was badly wounded. The thievish redskins also drove stock repeatedly from the stations.
I didn't feel so sure about myself, for though my horse was a first-class one, and had over and over again, when out hunting, showed herself as fast as any out, there might be as good ones or better among the redskins, for anything I knew. When we were fairly out on the plains, I could see that pretty nigh the whole tribe of redskins had joined in the chase.
Deep solemn, tranquil, the gloaming hour brought him no ordinary fullness of joy and clearness of perception. "Do you ever feel this stillness?" he asked Wetzel one evening, as they sat near their flickering fire. The hunter puffed his pipe, and, like an Indian, seemed to let the question take deep root. "I've scalped redskins every hour in the day, 'ceptin' twilight," he replied.
When we halted at noon, we of course reported the circumstance. As it showed that Redskins were in the neighbourhood, several more men were told off to act as scouts, with orders to retreat towards the train the moment they might see any Indians, whether few or many.
But the smoke partly spoiled our aim, and the interval gave the redskins a terrible advantage. Half of them dashed on, under our very guns, and right up to the wall of the house, and the next instant we heard an ominous sound the thump and clatter of the dried timbers as they fell against the logs. "That's our death knell!" cried Menzies. "Heaven help us now! We are lost!" Heaven help us indeed!
We have left the mountains now and descended into the great plains once only inhabited by wild tribes of the Redskins and mighty herds of buffalo, but now for the most part taken up by white men for grazing-ground.
"If the worst comes, my men," said he, "if this fire reaches us, we will charge through it, meet the redskins in the open ground, and send them to a hotter place than they have prepared for us." The fire burned fiercely until within a few yards of the intrenchments, and the men were blinded and nearly suffocated by the smoke.
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