Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1854-02-25

lar from the fort as possible before day
light, his accident making time especially
| important to him. He accordingly pushed
Iup the left bank Of the Sorel river, towards
Lake ChampIain, intending to swim il
Just below the Lake, and then find his
way along the eastern shore. Various
events, however, occurred to prevent his
doing this; but, after running risk, by
putting himself within the power of a
tory, whose ehiefexcelence seems to have
been the possession of most kind and
fearless wife, he was so lucky as to find a
canoe, Of which he took charge, and in
which he made good headway towards
home, until, in one of the narrow passes
of ChampIain, the British Notifications on
both sides, forced him TO leave his vessel,
and take TO the woods again.
He was without food, shoes or gun, and
had to find his way TO Albany through an
unknown wilderness, along the Vermont
shore. For four days he lived on birch
bark, then he caught few fish, and man
aged to secure a wlld duck. The fish and
duck he ate raw. Thus he labored on
during ten days. His feet, meanwhile,
become so badly cut and so intolerabIy
U, '', of n,rson;,oos m3Jo evory mo.
nent or rest mament If misorv while
TINS rre,ched and worn ont he was bitten
on the calf of the leg by rattesnake.
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