The Indians of North America / [Anon].

  • George Mogridge
Date:
[1843?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Indians of North America / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FLIGHT OF NIKKANOCHEE. obliged to band themselves together to fight, leaving their squaws (wives) and children to travel as w'dl as they could to a place of safety. Nikkanochee, child as he was, travelled with the women through the pine forests night and day; but a party of horse soldiers overtook them, and drove them as captives towards the settlements of the whites. Bi 'km. Ay! now Nikkanochee is a prisoner! What is to become of him now! Hunter. The mothers were almost frantic. The wigwams they saw on the road had been destroyed by fire, and the whole country had been devastated. At nghtfall they came to a village; and here, when it grew dark, Nikkanochee, a little girl, and two Indian women, made their escape. For some days they fled, living on water melons and Indian corn, till they fell in with a party of their own war-men. Austin. I hope they were safe then. Hunter. Not being numerous, they were obliged to retreat. Pursued by their enemies, they fled, some- times on horseback, and sometimes on foot. A part of the way, through the swamps, thickets, and pine forests, Nikkanochee rode on the back of his fa- ther. At night, while the party were sitting round a fire, in the act of preparing for refreshment some dried meat, and a wild root of the woods reduced into flour, an alarm was given. In a moment they were obliged once more to fly, for their enemies were upon their track, accompanied with bloodhounds. Basil. Bloodhounds !
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