The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1878-10-23


Eda,ing Buckskin Sam. ! How we do
inOve.' -.. s#
VI should say We did, old boy replied
Rip. i am only afraid We are moving too
lTast., '.% '@t.~-~' ''t ta' 'F''t'
'Don't yon believe II; those fellows seem
10 be standing still, said Sam fue y
| "rhey will get IN the current IN y mo-
nenL grasped Rip. 'Look at that. ~
fhe lea lnost canoe Of the Indians APP
Lpeared upon the crestof the rapid, and
lca,ie fiaing down after the trappers Al a
fiurknis speed. The indians, no long.r
| use,i their paddles with the exception Of
tile inau who sat at The Stern, and by .
touch om the water. now on oie side. NOW
on the other, regulated the. course Of the
canoe. The second canoe f,llowed in a
mnment. itile further In 'sIiore" eAs
they gazed the how ofthe last canoe was
suddenly lifted into tile air rs u struck n
brown rock In the channel. which the
nrcupauls tried in vain to- avoid, The
fierce current caught the stern, and In an
instant there was nothing left orthe craft,
save bruken fragments, while the occu-
pants, with lou,i skfieks IF terror, We're
horne swiftly on by theirtsistlcss tide. 4
'rhst ends lhem.1 said. Rip Ford. =. Be
Icareful. sam, for yaur life = rlr.. -
On, on, borne by lI.e power which they
could not resist, the two can"es mere
hurried. Thele was a sceiie Of wild exui-
ialioii in the hearts of the white meii, for
they could see that their enemy would
have gladly escape'l. Ii they co'ild. fron
The I~t lis that surrounded them. Their
n,ai desire for scalls aud rlunder had led
them into. u trap. aud they H., Hunger
Thought Of the cl,ase brfWe them. They
knew, ~ the whites did nut, the terrible
l,langrr Ipf0ie them. zGor they. had, -x.
pinled tie hanksn nf ilIe stream 0n f,nt
mauy times. TIE river suddenly mar
fovcd. aud The trail ers suddri,ly tnsliri
lfuio a canon barely twenty iett wide and
nearly ronsed over hy tie cliff an each
side. the current wa- MT quite 80 rapi,l
There, ami they guided the rnnre easily.
This gets interesting, Rip said Sam. as
liney went on through the marrow i'ass.
we are going--n To our DEATH in-
lterrupied Rip Ford. ina solemn voice.
'Dn YOU hear the falls p
Through the splash 81 water aud the
dip Of the paddles they heard n Low. dead,
tre.nuluus roar, which was the sound al
falling water. For u moment the hronzr'i
face of Fam blinrLed, and then he drew
his figure NJ proudly, saying: Better
Illan the scalping. or stake. old
frirnd' As the Fiencl,nnan says, pfpe Ia
mort y Long live death = r.
II was, indeed. hefore t.lcm. fpr ~ they
shot out of tire na.row Iassihry saw the
falls befne llenl--how high they could
mol tell, but the smOke which ar,se showed
that II was not small ME. Keep her
head to II cried Rip III We dnn't gel
Iihrough it's guo,l-by forever, sain.'
The swiiI current caught them, And the
canur hurled forward with terrible ioicr
went flying toward the verge. A monIcni
more and Il shnt nut inio the mist aud
went down lntu the unknown depths,
Each mnn clnng Iulis paddle M lie went
down, held hy an invisible I"wrr, whirled
Ia aud FRO, NJ Ina maelstron, and thrii
slut up Into tile light l,plow the falls. FaI
helaw them ilie game iioate,i, and as the
current swept them down tir two men
luakei hack la time to sre the Ih,lians'
canor came ever tie falls sideways with.
out an occupant. II was hnrl,d farout'
aud fell tightly on tile water. only 10 bs
arrested by tile strong arm of Blackskin
Sam. e. ..atnt. E*t
The Indians. appalled, by their tlahgrr.
Ind upset the came in their fiantic efforts
to escape. What became % them, The
lappen never knew. for when they
reached tie foot u the rapid, far below
The falls. and rIghted the canoe, they
made no pause. hut hurried dawn the
stream, aud beiore night weresafely fiuat.
ing in the waieTsUf the Canadian river.
1.-TWO days later they reached Fort SiIl 10
safety.