might have found time for a little pleasant loitering; but the Indian anecdotes they expected to hear excited their curiosity too much to allow a single

prairie. A broken twig or leaf, or the faintest impression on the grass, is sufficient to attract their attention. The anecdotes I am abou

inquired if they had seen a little, old, white man, with a short gun, and accompanied by a small dog with a bob-tail. They replied in the affirmative; and, upon the Indian's assuring them

ed over the dead leaves in the woods; that he is a white man, I know by his turning out his toes when he walks, which an Indian never does; his gun I know to be short, by the mark which the muzzle made by rubbing the ba

an! Why, nothing could

rdly have been able to describ

ve miles of Shamokin. The surviving whites, in their rage, determined to take their revenge by murdering a Delaware Indian, who happened to be in those parts, and who was far from thinking himself i

in any manner concerned in it, and that it was the act of some wicked Mingoes or Iroquois, whose custom it was to involve other nations in wars with each other, by secretly committ

the murderers, and was sure that he could discover them by the prints of their feet, and other marks well kno

accompanied him could discover a single track, nor would they believe that men had ever trodden on this ground, as they had to jump from rock to rock, or to crawl over them. They began to belie

d been torn and dragged forward from its place. Again, he would point out to them, that pebbles, or small stones on the rocks, had been removed from their beds by the foot hitting against them; that dry sticks, by being trodden upon, were broken; and, in one p

were deep, he found that the enemy were eight in number; and, from the freshness

Indians were seen encamped: some having already laid down to sleep, while others were drawing off their

told you. They are in our power. In less than half an hour they will be all fast asleep. We need not fire a gun, but go up

d him to take them back by the nearest and best way. This he did; and when they arrived at h

ce is quite as wond

after me if I had done wrong; fo

of a white man, to fill his pipe. Having some loose in his pocket, the white man gave him a

ee him," sai

inquired

money with

at? Keep it; it w

s; it was given to you.' Good man say, 'That not right: tobacco yours, money not yours.' Bad man say, 'Never mind, nobody know it; go buy rum.' Good man say, 'Oh no; no such thi

e that India

ould have acted

ch among them, I passed by the door of an Indian who was a trader, and had, consequently, a quantity of goods in his house. He was going with his wife to Pittsburg, and they were shutting up the house; as no person remained in it during their abse

s an Indian lock that I

h property in the house: are you not afraid that

n! by

ndians, to

g. Unless a white man, or white people, should happen

r doors in that way, our hous

h were not in our hands, we should be equally ignorant ourselves. Before man existed, say they, there were three great and good spirits; of whom one was superior to the other two, and is emphatically called the Great Spirit and the Good Spirit. At a certain time, this

taking charcoal, he pursued the same process, and brought the result

and taking red earth, he formed an Indian. On surve

rom error in such things, but was able also to make them "wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." He told them, that though the Indians were ignorant of holy things, they did not want shrewdness and sagacity. "When General Lincoln," said he, "went to make peace with the Creek Indians, one of the chiefs asked him to sit down on a log

Long relates the following anecdote of a Pawnee brave, son of Red Knife, who, in t

ad acquired for him in his nation the rank of the bravest of the braves. The savage practice of torturing and burning to death the

me and her friends, was fastened to the stake. The whole tribe we

nnoticed, prepared two fleet horses, with the necessary provisions, sprang from his seat, rushed through the crowd, liberated the victim, seized h

o rescue their victim from her deliverer. They viewed it as the immediate act of the

ards her home. Her deliverer then gave her the horse on which she rode, and

tribes; the practice is abandoned. How influential is one bold act in a good cause! This deed illustrates a grand principle, boys. It is by such men that great reformations are made in the world, and yet there is no mastery i

s brave and humane Indian with a handsome silver medal, with appropriate inscriptions, as a token of their sincere commendation of the noble act of resc

; and when again you have the power to save a poor woman from death an

nee made the fo

e me ease more than I ever had; and I wil

od deed that I have done. My brothers and sisters think that

d not know that I did good; but by

nd Austin was unbounded in his approbation of the Pawnee. Willingly would he have contributed towards another silver medal for him, and Brian and Basil would not have been backward in doing their part; b

semanship.