The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-09-17

Col. Gibson, and said he was one of b;s
greatest enemies, aud more to the same
purpose, all which 1 paid very little at.
ten''on. Col. Crawford at this period of
his sufferings, besought the Almighty TO
have mercy on bis soul, spoke very low.
ana bore his torments with the most man.
" fortltude. He continued In all the ex.
tremltles of.pain for an hour AMI three
quarters, or two hours or longer, as near
as can Judge when at last being almos.
spenth he lay down on his belly: they then
scalped him and repeatedly threw the
scalp IN my face, telling me "that was nv
captain
AN old squaW (whose appearance eve
y way answered the idea the people en-
'ertaln OF the devil) got board took =
parcel ofcoals and ashes, and laid them
On his back and head after he had hes,
scaiped he then raised himself upon his
lee' and began to walk round the post; they
next put burning stick to him as usuai
Out ne seemed more insensib'e Of pain llan
before.
The Indian fellow who had me in
charge now took me away 10 CAPTAIN
Pipe's house, about three-quarters of a
mile away from the place of the Col's.
execution. i was bound all night. and
mus prevented from seeing the last of
.he horrid spectacle. Next morning, being
June 18th, the Indian united me. painted
me black, and we set off for the shawap-
ese town, which he told was somewha,
less than forty miles from that place. We
soon came to the spot where the Col. h: d
peen burnt, as it was partly in our way /;
saw his bones laying amongst the re-
mains of the fire, almost burnt to ashes
suppose after he was dead they had laid
his body ON the fire.
The Indian told me, that was nv ..g;,
Captain" and gave the scalp halloo He
was on horseback and drove me before
him. pretended to this Indian / WAS
ignorant of the death was to die at tn.
ShaWnese town, affected as cheerful 81
conn'enance as pc. sible AMI asked
MIN II we were not to live together as bro
theirs IN one house, when we should get
to the town? Te seemed well pleased.
and said yes. He then asked me if I could
make wlgwams? told him could-he
then seemed more friendly-we went that
day as near as I can Judge about 25 miles;
the course partly south wess.-The Indi-
dian told me we should the next day come
to the town, the sun being in such a d.
rection, pointing nearly south. AT night
when we went to rest attempted very
often to unite myself, but the Indian was
extremely vigilant and scarce even shut
his eyes that night. About daybreak he
got and united me: he next began to
mend up the fire, and as the gnats were
troublesome | asked him if / should make
a smoke behind him? He said yes. I then
took the end ofa dogwood fork which had
been burnt down to about l8 inches lone:
1T was the longest stick could find, vet
too small for the purpose had in view
then | picked up another smaller stick
and taking coal of fire between them
went behind him; then turning suddenly
about, struck him on the head with all
the force was master of /; which so stun
ned him that he fell forward with both
his hands into the fire.
Seeing him recover and get up, / seiz-
ed his gun while he ran off bowling
1 in a most fearful manner. / followed
him with a determination to shoot him
down, but pulling back the cock of the
gun with too great violence I believe 1
broke the handspring. / pursued him,
about thirty yards still endeavoring to fire
the gun, but could not then going back
to the fire. l took his blanket, pair of
newm occasons, his hatchet powderhorn
bullet bag together with the gun, and
marched of, directing my course towards
the FIVE O'Clock mark; about half an hour
before sunset came to the plains which l
think are about sixteen miles wide.
laid me down in thicket till dark and
then by ihe assistance of the north star
made my way through them and got into
the woods before morning. I pressed on
the next day, and about noon crossed the
paths by which our troops had gone out
These paths were nearly cas-: and west but
l went due north nearly all that afternoon
with view to avoid the enemy.
In the evening l began to be very faint.
and no wonder had been six days a
prisoner; the two. latter days of which had
eaten nothing, and but very little the frs,
three or four; there were wild goose.berries
in abundance in the woods. but being unr;p,
required mastication, which at that tina
I was not able to perform on account of a
blow received from an Indian on the jaw
with the back of tomahawk; there was
a weed that grew in that place the juice of