326 "WILD SPOKTS IN THE SOUTH. 



It appears they had been canvassing the means by which 

 they had been made captive, and one of them had inti- 

 mated that it could only have been effected by the 

 treachery of their chief. 



The words were no sooner out of his mouth than Tus- 

 tenuggee was on his feet. Bounding over the fire, he 

 struck the bold speaker in the breast with both feet, 

 then seized him by the throat, and as those in the yard, 

 attracted by the tumult, reached the window of the 

 building, they saw him almost strangled in the tiger-like 

 clutch of the raving chief. Before help could be rendered 

 him, Tustenuggee had seized the ear of his antagonist 

 between his teeth and bitten it off, then throwing aside 

 his prey, he ground the ear between his teeth, and spat 

 the clotted flesh in the faces of the guard, then, raising 

 his sinewy form to its grandest height, and waving his 

 arm, he gave the Indian whoop, and called out with a 

 wild voice twice, "Halleck Tustenuggee! Halleck Tus- 

 tenuggee !" and fell back to his seat, trembling with ex- 

 citement and the rush of his passions. 



The strange accessories of form and color, the armed 

 guard, and red fire-light, the savage act of the barbarian, 

 impressed the scene on our minds as the act of a demon. 

 It held us enchained, and we looked on the actor as a 

 caged lion. 



On the morrow he and his chiefs were on their way to 

 Tampa Bay, to be sent by ship to New Orleans. 



