The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-07-25
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; rllghted my pipe, a. % for Thorn
They CAM together out of earsbot an,
nao confab, but apparently did not ar
If rive at any satisfactory conclusion
: "hen we were ready to 90 I said:
4 Two OF you must ride ahead and
\ three behind. It is an honor due me
{ spect iD'" IT.
They looked at me in wonder and
> amazement, and continued:
. And if we should encounter anv
+ white men, avoid them, as do not wish
to be seen. NV -'-
That last observation drove the neo
nome. When we set out two rode IN
front and three behind, and no Indians
were ever more puzzled. In later wears
i met one of them, and he told me that
thelr plan was to torture me as soon as
awoke. Even the one who was to have
the honor OF scalping me had been desio-
mated, and the plumber had been an
porloned- And after they had con-
Guided to take me prisoner to VILLAGE
one hundred miles away they meant to
ne me to my horse. They were beat ont
OF TINS by my queer remarks, intended
Just Tor that purpose. We moved TO the
west about five miles, then held tn the
north until noon. After noon we turned
TO the east, and l figured TINT they were
thanking the camp of the white party bv
thelI maneuvre. We rode to the east
until nightfall, and then went into camn
IN some timber alongside creek. Sew
erai times during the day had expressed
my lmpauence at our slow pace and
asked them to get on faster. and when
we went into camp l saw that I had
'nem OIL their guard. They looked
upon me more as a curiosity than
prisoner, aud this very fact bred {
new danger. After eating L sat apart
from them to smoke and mediate. and to
siVe them opportunity to compare notes.
II dld not take them long to satisfy each
other that [ was Hbad medicine u and n
nat II they carried me to their VILLAGE
ny presence would bring disaster. Tbev
lrged that / be killed, but then came O
ne question of who should do it. Each
vas afraid that the deed would bring h,
Irath upon his head, and so far as
ouia make out each one refused the
isk. While they were talking 1 r,e.red
ireiully backward on the earth, and bv
Id by had twenty feet between me and Sc
lie nearset man. All the horses were Cd
ose in the timber to browse. The guns SD
ere on the other side of the fire, where
could not hope to reach them. Just
hen the five got their heads together to uo
scuss something they did not wish me
t' s7zeSs backward
vas hundred feet away Wien they
ssed me. Every man sprang to his
ct with yell and rushed for the point sw
lere was last seen. tai
l had meanwhile dropped to my hanils
d knees and was crawling to the left ing
ward the guns. As the rush came
opped beside a log, and one of the red
ms leaped square overme as he cleared
2 log, heard them scatter and beat yol
out, and while they were hunting for
l crawled along and got my gun. 1t 'th
S Winchester, and a new thing to Ere
m, and it had been left behind when
y snatched up their rifles. Icrept away leal
of the circle OF the fire and then got pre-
shelter of the tree. The Indians beat
ound for a good half hour, and then
ne all in, chagrined and disguised. A 7
lrrei took place at once, one blaming Won
other for my escape, but something me
peace was restored by the leader say ]
that could not go far on foot, and to {
t they would recapture me next day.
such event was to be put to the tor ]
c at once. noc
now took place which the
der may harshly criticise. While 1
Id have crept away I would not. q
Id not have secured my horse, and to ID
alone and afoot in that country meant I 10
ering and peril. mad been a scout De''
several years. had been ambushed, ~ n
at, pursued, and wounded. Twoof :,
comrades had been hacked to pieces q
his same Tribe. Travel as far as I
d that night they would be likely to e'ei
haul me next day, and if again re- go,
5ured they would burn and torture me.
d all these arguments in my defence a
lifted my gun and took fair aim at you
er. He went down as my rife OF
ked, and was followed by a second b.
third before the snrviv;ncr siren
could comprehend what was going A.
Neither stopped for his gun, but our
sprang away in the darkness. tlcs,
after them, and, strangely enough, b.
one through the hip. He travelled OF II
his companion for twenty miles be-
he lay down to die. The fifth war
+hea ffis nj, to the east, until he got az
to reflect, he decided not to 90 back nv 5
Tribe The loss of his four com afte,,
and OF his entire outfit was some. every
ne could not explain satisfactoriIv least ,
ieSriul OF being made the farm
OF MS chiefs anger He therefore "a
lded to the Chickasaws, and was "T
mem when he gave me his story can.
1ood guard all night, and when
aS came was satisfied that the two THE p
scaped had no idea of returning WIS
scanty breakfast caught IN the IT,;
llmais, packed up everything of Ui.-
and then searched the dead The
mad about $40 in gold and silver = a "a
Inen, and one had white mans Ws'
winch had been taken within two
Hhen ready to start headed To- h,aL
ne southeast for the river. and at from -
x rode right into the camp of the PinL N.
s !, had settled down for sport
given me no thought. Next
arty oil US rode over to give the
more careful inspection, and we Parke
n each one silver GoS.1 -nu we Knowitt
given Them during Lincoln's first Iangl
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