o'clock mark. About half an hour before 

 sun- set I came to the plains, which I think 

 are about sixteen miles wide. I laid me 

 down in a thicket till dark, and then by the 

 assistance of the north-star made my way 

 through them, and got into the woods be- 

 fore morning. I proceeded on the next 

 day; and, about noon, crossed the paths by 

 which our troops had gone out : these paths 

 are nearly east and west; but I went due 

 north all that afternoon with a view to 

 avoid the enemy. 



" In the evening I began to be very faint: 

 and no wonder; I had been six days pri- 

 soner; the last two days of which I had 

 eat nothing, and but very little the first 

 three or four. There were wild goose- 

 berries in abundance in the woods ; but, 

 being unripe, required mastication, which 

 at that time I was not able to perform, on 

 account of a blow received from an Indian 

 on the jaw with the back of a tomahawk. 

 There was a weed that grew plentifully ia 

 that place, the juice of which I knew to be 



