 | Joseph Pritts - 1841 - 550 Seiten
...commanded, brought in not less than twenty prisoners, and killed more than an equal number. To show that desperate as they were in combat, that bravery was...who should be in the canoe but his Indian father and another, with their children ! As his comrades were coming forward with their rifles cocked, ready... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1847 - 630 Seiten
...The moment the canoe struck the shore, Wells heard the nicking of the cocks of his comrades' rifles, as they prepared to shoot the Indians ; but who should...his Indian father and mother, with their children ! The others were now coming forward with their rifles cocked and ready to pour in a deadly fire upon... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - 1849 - 742 Seiten
...only a part of their merit, is demonstrated by the following circumstance : On one of Captain Well's peregrinations through the Indian country, as he came...who should be in the canoe but his Indian father and another, with their children ! As his comrades were coming forward with their rifles cocked, ready... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - 1849 - 774 Seiten
...Well's peregrinations through the Indian country, as he came to the bank of the river St. IVJary.he discovered a family of Indians coming up the river...who should be in the canoe but his Indian father and another, with their children ! As his comrades were coming forward 538 FRONTIER MEN. with their rifles... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1849 - 646 Seiten
...The moment the canoe struck the shore, Wells heard the nicking of the cocks of his comrades' rifles, as they prepared to shoot the Indians ; but who should...his Indian father and mother, with their children ! The others were now coming forward with their rifles cocked and ready to pour in a deadly fire upon... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1851 - 636 Seiten
...The moment the canoe struck the shore, Wells heard the nicking of the cocks of his comrades' rifles, as they prepared to shoot the Indians ; but who should...his Indian father and mother, with their children ! The others were now coming forward with their rifles cocked and ready to pour in a deadly fire upon... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - 624 Seiten
...The moment the canoe struck the shore, Wells heard the nicking of the cocks of his comrades' rifles, as they prepared to shoot the Indians ; but who should...his Indian father and mother, with their children ! The others were now coming forward with their rifles cocked and ready to pour in a deadly fire upon... | |
 | John Frost - 1854 - 626 Seiten
...the shore, Wells heard 'he nicking of the cocks of his comrades' rifles, as tlu-v prepared to*hoot the Indians; but who should be in the canoe but his Indian father and mother, with their children ! The others were now coming forward" with their rifles cocked and -ready to pour in a deadly fire... | |
 | Roualeyn George Gordon Cumming - 1869 - 310 Seiten
...moment the first canoe struck the shore, Wells heard the clicking of the locks of his comrades' rifles, as they prepared to shoot the Indians. But who should be in the canoe, but his Indian father, mother, and their children ! As his comrades were coming forward with their rifles cocked, ready to... | |
 | Horace S. Knapp - 1872 - 758 Seiten
...through the Indian country, as he came to the bank of the river St. Mary, he discovered a family ot Indians coming up the river in a canoe. He dismounted,...deadly storm upon the devoted Indians, Wells called to them to hold their hands and desist. He then informed them who those Indians were, and solemnly... | |
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He dismounted, and concealed his men near the bank of the river, whilst he went himself to the bank, in open view, and called to the Indians to come over. As he was dressed in Indian style, and spoke to them in their own language, the Indians, not expecting... 
