44 Legend of Samuel Brady. 
the Indians, expecting a pursuit, were on the look-out, and ready to 
receive him, with numbers four fold to those of Brady’s party, whose 
only safety was ina hasty retreat, which, from the ardor of the pur- 
suit, soon became a perfect flight. Brady directed his men to sep- 
arate, and each one to take care of himself; but the Indians knowing 
Brady, and having a most inveterate hatred and dread of him, from 
the numerous chastisements which he had inflicted upon them, left 
all the others, and with united strength pursued him alone. The 
Cuyahoga here makes a wide bend to the south, including a large 
tract of several miles of surface, in the form of a peninsula: within 
this tract the pursuit was hotly contested. The Indians, by extend- 
ing their line to the right and left, forced him on to the bank of the 
stream. Having, in peaceable times, often hunted over this ground 
with the Indians, and knowing every turn of the Cuyahoga as famil- 
jarly as the villager knows the streets of bis own hamlet, Brady di- 
rected his course to the river, at a spot where the whole stream is 
compressed, by the rocky cliffs, into a narrow channel of only twen- 
_ty two feet across the top of the chasm, although it is considerably 
wider beneath, near the water, and in height more than twice that 
number of feet above the current. Through this pass, the water 
rushes like a race horse, chafing and roaring at the confinement of 
its current by the rocky channel, while, a short distance above, the 
stream is at least fifty yards wide. As he approached the chasm, 
Brady, knowing that life or death was in the effort, concentrated his 
mighty powers, and leaped the stream at a single bound. It so 
happened, that, in the opposite cliff, the leap was favored by a low 
place, into which he dropped, and grasping the bushes, he thus 
helped himself to ascend to the top of the cliff. ‘The Indians, for a 
few moments, were lost in wonder and admiration, and before they 
had recovered their recollection, he was half way up the side of the 
opposite hill; but still within reach of their rifles. They could easily 
have shot him at any moment before, but being bent on taking him 
alive, for torture, and to glut their long delayed revenge, they for- 
bore the use of the rifle; but now seeing him likely to escape, they 
all fired upon him: one bullet wounded him severely in the hip, but 
not so badly as to prevent his progress. The Indians having to 
make a considerable circuit before they could cross the stream, 
Brady advanced a good distance ahead. His limb was growing stiff 
from the wound, and as the Indians gained on him, he made for the 
pond whieh new bears his name, and plunging in, swam under water 
a considerable distance, and came up under the trunk of a large oak, 
