Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-11-16

very soon tneY all lett mo Win The exception
Of the two nearest ones. They got pretty
close, when they both fired at me; and see
here,' ne said, in my sleeve, where the bull
let Of one passed through and here in nv
pants the ball of the other one. As soon as
they had fired, raised my gun and looked at
them, and as the smoke cleared away, saw
that had one foe the less to contend with
But my hopes fell, too, as the flint of my gun
fell to the ground broken. But never give
up, shall be my motto, said; and ran into
small cluster of bushes, and succeeded IN
getting flint from my cariridge-box, and had
just loaded as the other Indian ran up and
fired on me. | now quickly raised my gun
and fired, for he was turning to flee, and sue
ceeded in wounding him so that he could not
follow me any further. All, he said, never
expected 10 escape; but am alive, and not
wounded or hurt as yet. Now have finished,
for was wandering this way and that, until
Providence threw you in my path. You must
sleep now, for / cannot afford to lose yon
after meeting thus. / see that you cannot
travel as you are. | will watch for Indians
and wild brutes,' for we hear the growing
of some animal, and judged it to be bear,
tracking US by the blood left by my feet at
every step took. How sweet was that sleep
to me But soOn-to soon-Ship awoke to
the stearn realities Of life.
We must leave this place, he said, { for
do not like the signs see about here. We
wandered about in the swamp an hour or so
before we found an outlet, though il seemed
TO me we were in there an age.
Soon after we got ont of the swamp we
stumbled on small trail, which we thought
would lead US to Forte Jones-that place was
then our destination. The trail soon led us
to The ford of small creek We thought
now we would soon be al The Fort, almost con-
fident that it lay on the same side of the creek
that we were on. We took half beated road,
but soon got out of il and wandered about some
time, thinking we were in the right direction,
when 10 we found ourselves at the same ford
and creek again. We almost believed our
folded hands-we must be up and going if we
ever expected 10 see our friends and home
again. We started, hailing every black stump
we saw. Our tramping did US no good-for
again we found ourselves at the same place we
had before started from. This time we gave
uP--we were doomed never to return to the
happy scenes of our youth any more. But as
the darkest hour is just before day, so it was
with US; for in the midst Of our deepest despair,
we heard the voice of chanticleer proclaim to
man that day was breaking. How that voice
cheered US
1t is now day. lay down and slept, Ship
standing sentinel again. When he walked me
up the sun was shining brightly; but oh how
lonely and sad every thing seemed We were
in lone and almost uninhabited country
knew not which way to go to find our friends
or TO avoid meeting our foes.
There was a rough road that run parallel
with the house. We took the north end of
this road, and had only gone short distance,
when we came in sight Of large smoke which
was the burning of Shepard's plantation.-
Then thought it was the Fort, and in the joy
ofthe moment fired off my gun; expecting every
moment TO hail some Of my comrades and be in
a place of safety and rest. Just at that mo-
ment looked down and saw in the road al
most under my feet cap, with handkerchief
and lock of hair, all matted and CORY with
blood. While looking at and conjecturing to
which Of our unfortunate companions it be-
longed, we heard horses running round the bot
tom of the hill on which we stood, and appar-
emily coming towards Us. We ran back to the
lone farm house, and as we came in sight of it,
we saw that the horses were going in the
same direction. The lot gate was open and
they run into it. They proved to be one noble
sorrel and two or three colts
| said TO Ship that we must have that horse.
Yes, we must have him and bride too, he
said. Well, may be we can find one here,
replied. Iran TO small clubhouse, and there
found an old head-stal with pair of ld-fash-
ioned curb bits. We knew the horse, for he be-
longed to one of our comrades. We put the
head stall on him, but it could only come over
one ear. We were not particular-this would
do if we only had reins. The reins, too, were
soon supplied; for Ship took off his musket
strap and formed that into reins.
| got up before to guide and manage the
horse. Ship rode behind to look out for the
Indians, as he was good deal taller than
was. We were now almost happy. With
noble horse under us what cared we for bIan-
ket or saddle1 for had we been seen aud chased
by the Indians with nothing to depend on but
our own feet, our chance of escape would have
been but small, tired and worn out as we were.
We crossed over the road that run BY the
house and took the woods. When we got into
the woods we went by my direction awhile
then by Ships. We had gone about in this
style some two or three hours when we came
to large broad road. This we took and fol-
lowed some distance, when we came to lane
nearly a quarter of mile long. We had
gone nearly through the lane when Ship
pressed hard on my arm, and said stop. |
took up the horse instantly, and asked, what
is il 2 Indians was the reply, and pointed
to the right. looked and saw four Indians,