The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-05-01

nications between Brady aud myself. My
anxiety was such as / never felt before.
1t seemed to me the Indians would never
retire, and when they did lay down they
were long time getting quiet. Bat as
soon as l wac sure they were al asleep L
began working to free myself. Ny hands
were tied behind my back, aud my feet
bound closely together. My wrists and
arms were yet much swollen from the
effects of the frost, and by exerting every
effort, and suffering intensely, succeed
ed 10 drawing my right through the
thong. decorating my hand and tearing
away portions of the flesh as I did SO.
Having loosed my hands, it was but
small matter to unite my feet. As soon as
that was done, raised my head to recon
hotter. One of the Indians moved un
easily. l sank down and placed my feet
and hands in the proper position almost
instantly. The Indian got up, stirred
the fire, and again laid down. Great
drops of sweat stood upon my forehead,
but | lay as still as death. After half an
hour | again made the attempt Brady
lay perfectly quiet. My situation was
such that 1t became necessary for me to
step over one of the warriors to get to
him, and as | cautiously did SO saw the
handle Oh his knife projecting from the
soaDDard. | reached down and drew it
forth without disturbing him. In
moment | was at my friend side, and
had cut the cords which bound him. He
arose and we approached the horses as
quietly as possible. Selecting what we
thought to be the two swiftest, we ar
ranged the lariats about their heads so
as to guide them, and / mounted mine
as he stood. Brady, before mounting,
motioned for my knife, which | threw in
the snow at his ieet. He then commence
ed cutting the remainder of the horses
loose. He had succeeded In loosinc
about two-thirds of them, when one of
the Indians, aroused by the usual COM
motion among the horses, sprang up.
Brady was upon the back of his horse
Instantly, and yelling like savage, and
using the knife as spur. he hashed
away, myself and most of the herd fol.
lowing at break neck speed.
The Indians fired after US, but we lay
fiat down upon our horses, and the bull
lets whistled harmlessly by. OF course
We knew pursuit would be Instituted at
once, but, thanks to the forethought of
my friend, the most of the horses had
been stampeded, and it would be some
time before they could get regularly
started, by which time we would gain
quite an advantage.
Our all depended upon our reaching
the Moqui villages, for we were without.
arms. blankets. provisions or matches.
We urged our horses as much IS we
could, and got along finely until near
daylight, when We came to deep gully
which we could not cross. This unfortu-
nate occurrence threw us off our course
several degrees, and we had to travel
three or four miles up the gully before
We could cross.
About a. m. we came in sight Of the
smoke of the villages, which We judged
to be distant about fifteen miles.
N ,
a small party of our enemies not more
than one and half miles to our left,
using every effort to cut US of. They
had OWNED our intention, and, knowing
the country well, avoided the trouble
which we had encountered at the gully,
and were now as near the villages as we
were.
-Four miles more and we would be safe
within the principal village, which could
now be plainly seen. situated as it is upon
a high piece Of ground.
1t was indeed race COR life. Our
horses were In lather of sweat, and al
ready beginning to flag. Should one of
them stumble and fall, its rider would
be at the mercy of the savages. On, on
we sped. We were now within two miles,
aye, less than that, of the village, and
the Indians not more than half a mile
from US. If we only had arms but we
had none
The horses seemed to understand
something Of what was going on, and
bent every energy to their work. Each
OF us began to swing an arm to attract
the attention of the villagers. When
within half mile of safety our enemies
were almost within shooting distance of
us. We began to shout, still making our
pantomimic gestures. In a few moments
ahe housetops were covered with people,
and when we were within a hundred
yards of the nearest house number of
braves rushed out, armed to our assis
tance. Our pursuers were hot hundred
yards from us, but when they saw the
Moquis coming to our assistance, they
stopped and fred at US, but without eff
feet. They then turned and rode of In
an easterly direction.
The Moquis took us in, and "sed us
ike brothers, furnishing us whatever we
needed. We remained with them until
spring, when we made our way to Fort
Wingate, New Mexico.
Brady ascertaine1 that one of the Ma
vejoes understood some English, which
was the reason he refused to talk, and he
also learned from the conversation that
they intended starting for their own vii
lagos the morning after the night on
which we made our escape, where they
intended to take US, for what purpose
we could not tell. but we supposed for
torture.
One of the horses on which we made
the race for life died from over heat, and
the other one was worthless afterwards
IS long as we remained with the Moauis.
Look at the bright side of evcrythi ng
If don't pa- m ca throuoh lEa xv..I =,