Incidents Attending the Capture Detention And Ransom of Charles Johnston of Vi
Incidents Attending the Capture Detention And Ransom of Charles Johnston of Vi
Johnston Charles
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Soon after this was done, one of the drunken Indians straggled from his compan ions, and came to us, brandishing his scalping knife. He quickly worked himself up into a great rage, and throwing himself across the body of Skyles, fastened on his hair and was determined to take off his scalp. It was with some difficulty that he was prevented, by those who were sober, from effecting his object. Resistance on the part of the prisoner was ut terly beyond his power. They had secured both of us comple...tely, by tying us down, in a manner which will be hereafter more minutely explained. During the night, Divine and Thomas secretly disappeared, without an ef fort, that we could discover, on the part of the Indians to detain them. 54 JOHNSTON S NARRATIVE [28] CHAPTER IV. ON the following day, the Indians seemed to think that their booty was of sufficient value to be worth carrying to their towns, and we took our departure from the Ohio in the after noon. But all did not move off together. Those to whom Flinn belonged remained at the river, and we never saw them or him after wards.
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