The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1842-11-25
tence and success. Many fat elk fell by

treated up the river TO the Mandans for
relief. They had been overpowered but
not vanquished; and their immemorial
hostility to whites was but aggravated TO
fresh deeds of outrage.
Late in October, the Mackinaw had
reached within twenty miles of the Man
dan village. Nor had its party been more
cautious than is usual on the river. Late
in an afternoon, ct this time, they unsus-
pectlngly landed to put ashore hunter;
and, as it happened at point nearly OPP
postc that chosen by the Arickaras for
their temporary abode. Ever on the
alert, the boat full of white men had in the
morning been deserted by one of their out
parties, and a runner had informed the
tribe of the glad tidings. So all was in
readiness for the destruction of the uncon-
scious objects of savage revenge. Scarce
had the boat left the beach, and Glass, as
the hunter, This lucky star still prevail
ing) gained the conccalment CT the will
lows, when hundred guns or bows sent
forth their fatal missiles, and on the in
slant rose the shrl cry. of war from a
hundred mouths. Had a thunderbolt
burst from the cloudless heaven upon the
heads Of the boats crew, greater could
not have been their astonishmet, or its
destruction. The appalling din was
echoed from hill to hill, and rolled far and
wide through the dark bottoms ; and it
was such as TO arrest in fear the fierce
panther in the act of leaplng upon the now
trembling deer.
But few guns from the boat sent back
defiance to the murderous discharge ; the
shouts were but answered by the death
cry and expiring groans. The Indians
rushed upon their victims, and The war
club and tomahawi finished work that
had been so learfully begun. They rioled
in blood; with horrid grimaces and con
vusive action they hcwed into fragments
the dumb, lifeless bodies; they returned
to their camp moving group of dusky
demons, exuiing in revenge, besmeared
with blood, bearing aloll each mangled
portion of the dead, trophies Of brutal sue
cess.
Glass had thus far again escaped a
f cruel fate. lie bad gained the almost I'M
pervious conceaIment OF drlted and mat
| ted willows, and underground, when the
dread ebulition of triumph and dea,h an.
nounced to him The evil he had escaped
and his still imminent peril. Like the
hunted fox, he doubled, he turned, ran or
crawled, successfully gaining the various
conccalmcnts of the dense bottom TO in.
crease his distance from the bloody scene.
, And such was his success, and lie had
thought himself nearly safe, when at a
, slight opening he was suddenly faced by
f n foe. 1t was an ArIckara scout. The
discovery was simultaneous, and SO close
were these wiley woodsmen, that but the
one had scarce tine TO use a weapon in
tended for much greater distance. The
deadly tomahawk Of the other was mos
3 readily substituted for the stoeled arrow
Q At the instant, it flew through the air, ant
the rifle was discharged; neither could
see or feel the effect produced, but they
rushed into each others grasp, each en-
deavorng to crush his adversary by the
shock of the onset. But not so the result
the graphing fold of their arms was St
=, close that they seemed as one animal -
: for while, doubtful was the struggle 70
!, the mastery so great was their exeruon
, that the grasped fingers met in the flesh
>. But Glass, not wholly recovered from hi
wounds, was doomed to sink beneath iht
superior strength OF his adversary, by Al
! irresistible effort, Of which he was role,
" upon the earth, the Indian above. AT thl
instant the effect Of his unerrIng shot wa
{ developed. The Indians last conyusiv
exerlon, so successful, was accompanie
S by shout of victory--but dying on hi
o lips, it had marked his spirits departure
c 1t was as if his proud soul, sensible of al
C preaching feeblcness, had willingly exp
: red in the last desperate effort, and I'll
e shout of triumph with which he woul
L have ushered both their souls into tt
c. presence Of the Great Spirit
5. Redeemed, unhoped, from death, GIa'
d beheld at his feet his late enemy, not onl
u dead, but already stitching, with his han
z lnstinctively graspng the hilt of his knit
le Brief was his breathing time; he wa
III soon rendered aware that the report of il
&c rifle had been heard by the Arckara
20 that his escape was discovered he h
instnctvely reloaded his gun, and he r
in newed fight of which his lie was Il
lg stake. Concealmcnt from his pursue
s. having become impossible, he used h
81, utmost sneed in the hope Of soon galnll