The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-11-07

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French, he learned hon Mn 10y
words Of his own luA0, 1aAlve tongue.
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gesture, IN which, NJ III iaSSSs.
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connSiy VI Afrioa The negro la ~ e
prince, and Fournier 6ad6 him lujNf
forward 70 the time when No Would -
turn and rule. He always addressed
him BY his African name maj titie IN
bis own tongue. He took him into the
wards OF his hospital. and taught him
TO be useful ct surgical opsrationB and
to care for the instrumNhts. that he
might become familiar with them and
with the sight Ut blood, which at arst
meddehed hum. Once he gsve Hin a
drug that made his head throb. and
then bled him with almost instant 70.
Lief. He edected an interest in the am.
ulees which hung at his neck. and b.
sought him to give him ono TO wear.
He committed 70 his care, with expires.
sions OF the greatest solicitude, strong
box, brass bound and carefully locked,
which he told him contained his god, .
most potent and cruel deity, who would,
however, when it pleased him, give
back the life Of a dead man for blood.
This box contained a silver cub. with q
thermometer fixed AZ its side; q glass
syringe holding about third Of pint {;
. large curved needle perforated in its
length like tube, sharp at one end, at
the other expanded to fit accurately Che
nozzle Of the syringe; little strsiner
also fitting the syringej and last, . small
bundle of wires with i handle like an
egg-beasef.
For the rest, this savage was crooked,
ill-shapen and hideous. His skin was
as black as night; his head small, the
lace immensely disproportionate to the
Uranium; his jaws massive and armed
with glittering white teeth, fled to the
points; his cheeks full, his nose fat, his
eyes little, deep.set, restless, wicked.
The usage he received from his new
master was so different from his former
experience with white men, and 80 in
accord with his own undiciplined no.
ture, that it called forth all the sympa-
thies Of his character. He soon loved
the Ffehchman with an intensity OF sf.
lection almost incomprehensible. II is
no exaggeration to say that he would
have willingly laid his life to crafty his
masters slightest wish. Tho latter's
knowledge was to him so comprehen-
slve, his power so boundless and his will
no imperious and infexible, that he
feared and worshiped him as god.
Fourier looked upon his monster
with satisfaction, and longed for a bat
tie. His wish was at last gratiied.
On the Fourth of July, 1864, an ehsaKe.
nent took place three miles northwest
OF Legareville. near the North Edisto
river. A force of Union soldiers had
been assembled from the Sea islands
and from Florida, massed on Seabrook
island, and pushed thence up into
South Carolina. Every movement vas
watched and reported by the rebel
scouts; all the troops that could he
spared from Charleston were sent out
to oppose the invaders; roads were Oh
structed, bridges were destroyed, bat.
teries erected in strong positions, every
thing prepared to impede their progress.
With infinite fatigue and peril they adj
vanced only five or six miles in days
march. There was occasional skirmish.
ing; but one actual battle. To that the
troops gave the name of "the Battle Of
Bloody Bridge"
In this battle heavy ss The losses
were, the Confederates took but one
prisoner. At the third charge tall,
broad -shouldered captain, who seemed,
like another son of Thetis, almost lnvul-
nersble, darted impetuously ahead of
his men and reached the summit Of the
defense. Useless bravery In an in
slant volley point blank swept away
the charging men behind him, and q
gunner's sabre-thrust bore him to the
ground within the works, where he lay
stunned and bleeding beside the gun
he had striven 50 hard to take. The
man who had captured him. wild with
excitement and maddened with the
powder that blackened him, and the
hot blood which jetted upon him, sprang
down, spat upon HIM, spurned him with
his foot. anil would have dashed out his
brains with the heavy hilt of his dubbed
sword had not o strong hand held his
uplifted wrist.
1t was Fourier, who had watched
the battle with On interest a. intense as
that Of the most ardent southerner in
the battery, though wildly different in
character. His interest was that Of the
naturalist who stands by eager to see o |
rustic entrap some rara avis that he de.
slres to study, to use for his expert
ment.
The gunner turned fiercely upon him,
but dropped his arm and sheathed his
sabre at his question, and walked back
to his gun abashed, for he was, after all,
q brave and chivalrous man.
Fourier simply asked: do confed-
crate Frat soldiers a murder ptisonees Of war"
leave him to me-" Then he knelt down
beside him and examined his wound,
and though he strove to be calm be
trembled with excitement as he tore
open the blue blouse and felt the warm
blood yelling over his fingers. Il was
q simple wound through the fleshy part
of the shoulder; strand of saddler's
silk and few strips of sticking plaster
would have sufficel to dress it, but the
Frenehman smiled when he wiped away
the clots and saw the blood squirting
from two or three small divided arteries.
Then he called his African, and they
carried the wounded man back to the
tent, and LAID him on bed of moss and
cypress boughs, and left him there to
bleed, while he went out into the air.
And the prisoner, what of him? Any
one, looking upon him as he lay upon
the cypress boughs, would have known
him to be thoroughbred. Everything