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" On this day also I saw an Indian who 

 had just come into town, and who said that 

 the prisoner he was bringing to be burnt, 

 and who he said was a doctor, had made 

 his escape from him. I knew this must 

 have been Dr. Knight, who went as sur- 

 geon of the expedition. The Indian had 

 a wound four inches long in his head, 

 which he acknowledged the doctor had 

 given him : he was cut to the skull. His 

 story was, that he had untied the doctor, 

 being asked by him to do so ; the doctor 

 promising that he would not go away : that 

 while he w^as employed in kindling the fire, 

 the doctor snatched up the gun, had come 

 behind, and struck him : that he then made 

 a stroke at the doctor with his knife, which 

 he laid hold of, and his fingers were cut 

 almost off, the knife being drawn through 

 his hand : that he gave the doctor two 

 stabs; one in the belly, the other in the 

 back : said the doctor was a great, big, tall, 

 strong man. Being now adopted in an 

 Indian family, and having some confidence 



