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Article AMERICAN ANECDOTES. ← Page 4 of 4 Article TO THE EDITOR. Page 1 of 3 →
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American Anecdotes.
the tribes , on a particular night , having defeated the militia party of Captain Pike ( whom they scalped and tomahawked ) , assembled , with the prisoners they had made , on the Dartmouth shore , and there began their horrid rites in view of the opposite town of Halifax . The victims were successively stretched in ther frames called squares , stuck full of lihted ine lintersand thus miserabldestroyed . One of
g p sp , y the prisoners , however , whose name was Wheeler , had already suffered greatly by their cruelty , and was nearly half scalped . Whilst he waited his own turn of death , with the progress of his fellows execution before his eyes , he desired to draw on one side , avowing a cause
of urgent necessity . This being a request that the savages never refuse , an Indian was appointed to guard him . The bleeding and almost naked sufferer , having concealed a knife , desired his attendant to look up , under pretence of observing some bird or other object above them , and he immediately plunged the knife into the bowels of his enemy . The feat being performed , he made into the adjoining throh such thickets in that to
woods , wildly flying ug as country any but Indians are scarcely penetrable . His escape soon dispersed his exasperated enemies and their dogs ( as their manner is ) in various directions after him . Exhausted as he was with pain and fatigue , he still contrived to keep them at a distance , being aided by the darkness of the nihtand had persevered several leaguesuntil he came to the
g , , mouth of an inlet of the sea , now known by the name of Coleharbour . Over the entrance of this inlet runs a bar , with , at all times , a dangerous surf , which at this moment was increased by the commencement of an heavy gale ; and the raging of the sea was prodigious . Here his pursuers gained upon him , and the fugitive was hemmed in . He threw himself into the surf , and most miraculously landed on the
opposite shore . Some of his enemies perished in attempting to follow him . He lay for a time almost dead ; but , reflexion giving him strength , he still persevered , by slow degrees , through the woods towards Lawrence-town fort , commanded by Mr . II . Newton , then Lieutenant of the 4 6 th regiment . Daylight disclosed itself when Wheeler to the picketing of the Block-houseand some of
came up , his hunters likewise made their appearance at the same instant , having vainly taken a circuitous rout to intercept their intended victim , who thus critically saved himself , and probably may be alive at this day .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , I Lately took a journey into the country to visit an old friend of my father ' s , who is a Grocer in a country town at some distance from London . While I was there , the Mayor gave a public entertainment , according to annual custom ; to which he invited several of the neighbouring Gentlemen and Ladies , the Members of the . Corporation , with their wives , sons , and daughters , and the principal inhabitants
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
American Anecdotes.
the tribes , on a particular night , having defeated the militia party of Captain Pike ( whom they scalped and tomahawked ) , assembled , with the prisoners they had made , on the Dartmouth shore , and there began their horrid rites in view of the opposite town of Halifax . The victims were successively stretched in ther frames called squares , stuck full of lihted ine lintersand thus miserabldestroyed . One of
g p sp , y the prisoners , however , whose name was Wheeler , had already suffered greatly by their cruelty , and was nearly half scalped . Whilst he waited his own turn of death , with the progress of his fellows execution before his eyes , he desired to draw on one side , avowing a cause
of urgent necessity . This being a request that the savages never refuse , an Indian was appointed to guard him . The bleeding and almost naked sufferer , having concealed a knife , desired his attendant to look up , under pretence of observing some bird or other object above them , and he immediately plunged the knife into the bowels of his enemy . The feat being performed , he made into the adjoining throh such thickets in that to
woods , wildly flying ug as country any but Indians are scarcely penetrable . His escape soon dispersed his exasperated enemies and their dogs ( as their manner is ) in various directions after him . Exhausted as he was with pain and fatigue , he still contrived to keep them at a distance , being aided by the darkness of the nihtand had persevered several leaguesuntil he came to the
g , , mouth of an inlet of the sea , now known by the name of Coleharbour . Over the entrance of this inlet runs a bar , with , at all times , a dangerous surf , which at this moment was increased by the commencement of an heavy gale ; and the raging of the sea was prodigious . Here his pursuers gained upon him , and the fugitive was hemmed in . He threw himself into the surf , and most miraculously landed on the
opposite shore . Some of his enemies perished in attempting to follow him . He lay for a time almost dead ; but , reflexion giving him strength , he still persevered , by slow degrees , through the woods towards Lawrence-town fort , commanded by Mr . II . Newton , then Lieutenant of the 4 6 th regiment . Daylight disclosed itself when Wheeler to the picketing of the Block-houseand some of
came up , his hunters likewise made their appearance at the same instant , having vainly taken a circuitous rout to intercept their intended victim , who thus critically saved himself , and probably may be alive at this day .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , I Lately took a journey into the country to visit an old friend of my father ' s , who is a Grocer in a country town at some distance from London . While I was there , the Mayor gave a public entertainment , according to annual custom ; to which he invited several of the neighbouring Gentlemen and Ladies , the Members of the . Corporation , with their wives , sons , and daughters , and the principal inhabitants