The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-04-14

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to be able to tear strips from his cloth
ing and bind them tightly around his
thigh. This stanched the flow of
blood. and he presently started to
crawl away among the trees; but now
he bethought himself to scalp the In
dian whom Heald had shot. and had
turned to do SO when a cracking Of
the bush not far away drew his atten-
ton. 1t was caused by thetwo equaws.
who had come forward from their
camp to see what had occurred.
Selling his gun, Whitney pointed it
at them, when they fled away, shrek
ing. He then crept away himself.
and although faint from loss of blood
and / u great pain, he continued to
crawl for a long distance into the for
est.
Finally, unable to get farther, he
hid himself in q dark hole beneath
the root of q fallen tree and remained
quiet, resolved, if the savages found
him, to sell his life as dearly as pos
sible.
But they did not find him. After
he had lain there beneath the old root
for thlrty-six hours or more in a faint
ing condition, he mustered all his en-
ergies and crawled slowly through
his companions had left a consider
able stock of food.
Fever came on him, and for many
days Whitney lay IN dreadful plight,
unconscious at times; but after a
while he began to recover, aud ate all
the food which he could find. His leg
had never been set, and still hung
helpless; yet de was able TO crawl
about, and busted himself collecting
ground nuts, checkerberries and
green sprouts, which he ate greedily,
but was in constant fear lest the saw
ages should discover his retreat.
Meanwhile, how had it Jared with
Heald, with the two savages on his
track? Onward he had sped, down
was q fleet runner and used to the
forest, but he soon found that the red
fellows behind him were nearly or
quite as swift rs he, and even better
used to running through brush; but
, with Head it was a race for life, and
he put forth all his strength.
Through boys and briers, over
stones and roots, leaping the great
trunks of fallen trees, splashing
through rills and brooks swollen by
the spring rains and melted SHOWS, on
they sped. Heald was leaving them
a little, he hoped, n at least holding
his own. when suddenly he came to 9
wide, deep stream, the outlet Of
Whitney's Pond.
He was not a good swimmer, and
: dared not trust himself to the water
: while to ran on down the bank of the
, brook would soon bring him to the
angle of land where the stream entered
the Androscoggin, and where he
, would be penned up. Without an in
stant's hesitation, he turned anG
tackled back to double on his pursuers
: and pass out at the right of them
j, still holding fast to his empty gun.
. This manuuvreh he was obliged to ex
9 ecute in plain sight of the redskins
:. for they were within a hundred yard,
= Of him, and no sooner did they per
ceive it than they both sprang t
head him off, whooping frightfully t
confuse him.
n He passed within fifty feet Of til
# nearer Of the two, and both of then
q threw their tomahawks: but it chance
as Head ran-with his eyes on tn
savages, to dodge the weapons-hi
a toe caught violently beneath a toug
- root, and be was thrown PROSTATE o
the ground. This accident may hay
"a saved his life, for both tomahawk
bIa o~o- Eic ho1vop1 Struct WIZ