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Twenty-one were scalped on the field; the bodies of 12 more were afterwards found behind logs or in holes where they had been lain, and 8 eventually died of their wounds. Smyth, the Englishman, accuses Lewis of cowardice, an accusation which deserves no more attention than do the similar accusations of treachery brought against Dunmore.
"What's the matter?" asked Philip, rubbing his eyes, for he was hardly able so suddenly had he been roused from sleep to comprehend the situation. Henry, as white as a sheet, could only point at the tall Indian, who, standing motionless, was gazing as intently at the boys. He made one step forward, and Henry thought he was about to be killed and scalped forthwith. "Oh, Mr.
He soon however fell beneath their tomahawks, and was in the morning found scalped and mangled in the most shocking manner." Of this family of eight persons two only escaped from this awful scene of midnight massacre. The neighborhood was immediately aroused. The second daughter was carried off a captive by the savages.
"I will take your scalp for that! As for the black feather, I trample it under my foot!" "Let me see you trample it. And my head is not so easily scalped as your brother's stomach." All the time they were dancing around each other in graceful and menacing feints.
Another instant and he would have had her scalped. But she is a fair woman, the fairest that ever my eyes rested upon, and it is not fit that she should kneel here upon these boards." He dragged her husband's long black cloak from him, and made a pillow for the senseless woman with a tenderness and delicacy which came strangely from a man of his build and bearing.
The Boy lifted his face to his mother's curiously: "Ma, you said God counted the beat of a sparrow's wing?" "Yes." "Well, what was He doin' when that Indian scalped my grandpa?" The mother threw a startled look at the bold little questioner and answered reverently: "Keeping watch in Heaven, my Boy. The hairs of your head are numbered and not one falls without his knowledge.
It was an awful scene of butchery. Scarcely an individual escaped. One athletic boy, after having seen his father, mother, four sisters, and four brothers tomahawked and scalped, pursued by the savages, with frantic energy succeeded in leaping the palisades. Several Indians gave chase. He rushed for the woods. They hotly pursued.
She only sobs and clings closer to him in speechless gratitude and love. Turning from these lovers reunited so miraculously, we see stretched on the battle-field the two grandsons of Mr. Chase, fine lads of fourteen or fifteen, who after fighting like men fall dead pierced with arrows and lances. Old Chase and his sons are slightly wounded, and Antoine shot through the neck and half scalped.
It was enough to make a man silent and melancholy," remarked young Harmar. "I can imagine how I would have felt if deprived of her I loved, in as tragical a manner." "Don't don't mention it, my dear!" exclaimed his wife, sensibly affected at the thought of her being scalped. "It was a horrible transaction," remarked Wilson; "and it had a stirring effect upon our people.
Of the Indians twenty-six were scalped; doubtless several others were slain. Of course these figures only apply to the Watauga neighborhood. Do., p 611. "History of Georgia," Hugh McCall, Savannah, 1816, p. 76. "Am. Archives," 5th Series, I., 610. Do., 4th Series, VI, 1228. Do., 5th Series, I., 613. Do., 5th Series, I., 7, and III., 649.
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