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terror she had escaped to her former captors,
or that she had been killed during the fight.
They we've not long left to doubt, for in IA
few moments the girl was seen emerging
from behind rock and coming to them with
rifle in her hand. During the neat of the
fight she say a worrior fall who had advance
ed some fifty yards before the main body I'M
front.-She at once resolved to possess her
self of his rife, and crouching in the under
growth she crept TO the spot, and succeeded
to her enterprise, being all the time exposed
to the cross fire of defenders and assallants-
her practised eye had early noticed the fatal
rock, and hers were the mysterious hands
by which the two warriors had fallen-thr
las, being the mos, wary, and untlring and
blood thirsty brdre of the Shawnese tribe.
He il was ten years previous, had scalped
the family of the girl, and had been her cap
tor.
In the west, dark clouds were now gath
ering, and in an hour the whole heavens were
shrouded in them; this darkness greatly en-
barrassed the scouts in their contemplated
night retreat, for they nigh, readily lose their
way, or accidentally fall on the enemy---this
being highly probable, if not inevitable. An
hours consultation decided their plans, and
il was agreed that the girl, from her intimate
knowledge of the localities, should lead the
advance a few steps. Another advantage
might be gained by this arrangement, for
IN case they should fall in with some ont
post, the girls knowledge of the Indian
tongue, would perhaps, enable her TO deceive
the sentinel and so the squel proved, for
scarcely had they descended one hundred
feet, when low whist from the girl warm
ed of present danger. The scouts sunk 81
lcntly to the earth, where by PREVIOUS ar
rangcmeni, they were to remain I'LL another
signal was given them by the girl,-whose
absence for more than quarter of an hour
tensions.
AT length she again appeared, and told
them that she had succeeded in removing two
sentnels, who were directly in their route
to point some hundred feet distant The
descent was noislessly rcsumed-the leve
gained, and the scouts followed their intre.
pid pioneer for half mile in the most pro-
found silence, when the barking of small
dog, within few feet, apprized them of II
new danger. The almost simultaneous click
i. of the scouts rifles was heard by the girl, who
rapidly approached them, and stated thai
they we're now in the midst of the lndar
wigwams, and their lives depended on the
most profound silence, and implicitly follow
ing her footstepst A moment afterwards
the girl was accosted by squaw from al
opening in a wigwam. She replied in The
Indian language, and without stopping still
pressed forward. In IA short time she stop
ped and assured the scouts that the vil!ae,
was cleared, and that they were now in safe
ty. The knew that every pass leading on
of the prairie was safely guarded by the III
dians, and at once resolved to adopt the bolC
adventure Of passing through the very cen
ire Of their village as the least hazardous
The result proved the correctness of he
Judgment. They now kept course for The
OHIO, being guided by the IIockhocking rv
Grand after three days march and suffer
ing, the party arrived at the Block House it
safety. Their escape from the Indians, pre-
: vented the contemplated attack; and the res
, cucd glrl proved to be the sister of the nlrc
) pid Neil Washburn, celebrated in Indian his
tory as the renomned scout to Captain Ken
: tons bloody kentuckians.
The principal facts of this narrative wer
given by the brother Of M'Clclland to
citizen of Lancaslcr-and the adventures re-
lated, prove that "trulh is sometimes straa
ger than felton,