The book Camp Fires of the Red Men Or a Hundred Years Ago was written by author J R Jason Rockwood Orton Here you can read free online of Camp Fires of the Red Men Or a Hundred Years Ago book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Camp Fires of the Red Men Or a Hundred Years Ago a good or bad book?
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A rude door of split wood closed the entrance, and before it was stationed a solitary saitege as a guard. In no very pleasurable frame of mind, though the prospect of liberty at no very distant period was before him, our hero placed him- self at the wall, to observe, as best he might, the temper and movements of the Indians. Night had but just conquered, and closed her blue vaulted windows against the day, when he perceived from his watch a bright flame shoot up from an open plain in the midst ...of the village, which rapidly increased in magnitude, until it became WAB-DANOEr^SOirO OF THE INDIAN WIDOW. 183 an immense bonfire, and the hills around and the heavens were broadly illuminated by its glare. About this pyramid of fire he could plairtly see the gathering of a body of warriors, painted in the most hideous manner, and decked in their most showy trappings ; and soon he becamed horrified as the well-known war-whoop broke on his ear, and he saw them engage in the frightful pageant of the war-dance.
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