Indian Sketches Taken During An Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes in Two Volum
Indian Sketches Taken During An Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes in Two Volum
John Treat Irving
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Luckily they could not pause to take aim with their rifles. At two miles' distance was a skirt of forest; it was growing dark, and could he but reach this, he would be safe. His horse, however, was nearly broken down ; he pant- ed, and staggered. The rider plied the lash with phrenzied fierceness; the generous animal taxed his strength to the uttermost ; 168 INDIAN SKETCHES. but nature was exhausted. Within a quar- ter of a mile of the timber, he began to fail, when his rider sprang from his ba...ck and bounded forward on foot. A loud cry burst from his pursuers, as they saw him abandon his horse ; but there was lit- tle cause for the shout; for his speed nearly equalled that of their jaded steeds. He was within about a hundred yards of the thicket, when finding that they could not overtake him, the Osages drew up and discharged their pieces. The bul- lets pattered among the leaves of the grove, but missed their mark. The Otoe turned half round, when on the border of the bushes, shook his rifle in the air, and raising a yell of triumph, plunged into the thicket.
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