The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29
NDIANSl WOLVES! TURTLE
PUZZLES ALSO IN THE LIFE or
Or. VANN or MOUNT HOPE,
Who VIII Re IOI. Maybe, Next Month and
Has the Graves Of Fourteen wives to
Keep Green-The Turtle Marked b. g.
IfAO, and So Older Than tho Doctor.

Has the Graves Of Fourteen wives 70
Keep GreenLIhe Turtle Marked B.. g.
lfAO, and So Older Than b Doctor.
GOSHEN, N. Y, March 2s.-'I was never
captured by indiana but once, said Dr.
James Nicholas Vann Of Mount Hope Who
unless the record has got its dates mixed
will be i0l on April n next. 1T was up on
the banks Of the Mohawk River.
Il stood there one day Watching a drove
Of deer swimming across, when hfty Indians
came out Of the woods and took me. The
river was wild with q food The Indians
we're mad at me for killing Oh their game
as | had been doing. They built q rait'
bound me to II and set II adHft.
There was twenty-three miles OF that
rapid, rocky water. knew was going
fast. but l had no idea that IL was as fast as
II proved 10 be. The raft run the twenty
three miles IN eighteen minutes.
sOn the way down a flock OF wild ducks
came along over. fired and down came
sixty.hve dead ducks On the raft. and
don know how many dropped in the water
] passed out Of sight so quick. hut what
surprised me most. and ] have never yet
been able TO figure out how they didit, when
| landed at the end Of that run there stood
those fifty Indians, waiting TO see whether
] got through all right How in the world
they ever got thereis what puzzled me then
and II has puzzled me ever since
But I got even with those Indians. When
they saw | had made the run all right they
lust stared at me as II they thought I wasn't
anything to be fooled with, and they set
me free.
Invent back up country, andin a few days
heard that a settlers little girl had been
stolen by the Indians ! got on their trail
and found the Indian camp. There were
only forty-two Of them. though, and was
sorry for that at first. but glad afterward,
for | found I only had ohloroform enough
with me to az forty-two
Il dosed them we'll with IL after they had
gone 10 sleep. and taking the little girl on
nv back swan the river with her, and soon
had her safe at her fathers house. | had
a close call, though, for before got half
way over the river the eight other Indians
came along, and they made the water boil
all about me with the bullets they fired.
Il heard afterward that the sight Indians
buried the forty-two and then left the coun-
try, and that was the end Al the Indians
In that valley. I have heard that II has
beon ~insinuated that all Indians had disap-
peared from there long before my time Of
getting there, but II they had how could |
have ohloroformsd that band Of forty-twol
Let EN- answer that
And that puts me in mind Of how I es-
capped from the pack Of wolves once up in
the wilds Of Sullivan county. I wish IL
would come back 10 me what II was | had
started out 10 do that time, for IL certainly
must have been something that would have
astonished folks.
But the circumstances that happened
seem 10 have driven It entirely out Of my
mind, and although | have lain awake nights,
night after night, trying to think what,it
could have been can't bring it back. Any
way. | was making my way through the
wilds Of Sullivan when in the midst Of a
dense swamp Z discovered that was be-
ing pursued by hungry wolves,
i hadn't any gun with me, and that
makes me think that it must have been
something remarkable that ! had started
out 20 do that time. The wolves came
closer and closer, and to keep them from
surrounding me | backed up against a big
rock, and there I stood and fought the fierce
and hungry beasts two days and nights,
and choked three Of them to death, they
having miscslculated and got a little too
close, but the rest snapped and snarled and
hung around, waiting for me to give up.
That's what l would have TO do before
another day, for I was tried and hungry.
l was beginning 10 wonder whether any
body would ever find my bones after the