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field. In my way, I saw a squaw, with 

 four or five children, lying asleep under a 

 tree : going a different way into the field, I 

 untied my arm, which was greatly swelled 

 and turned black. Having observed a num- 

 ber of horses in the glade as I ran through it, 

 I went back to catch one, and on my way 

 found a piece of an old rug or quilt hanging 

 on a fence, which I took with me. Hav- 

 ing caught the horse, the rope with which I 

 had been tied serving for a halter, I rode off. 

 The horse was strong and swift; and the 

 woods being open and the country level, 

 about ten o'clock that day I crossed the 

 Sciota river, at a place by computation fifty 

 full miles from the town. I had rode about 

 twenty miles on this side Sciota by three 

 o'clock in the afternoon, when the horse 

 began to fail, and could no longer go on a 

 trot. I instantly left him, and on foot ran 

 about twenty miles farther that day, making 

 in the whole the distance of near one hun- 

 dred miles. In the evening I heard halloo- 

 ing behind me, and for this reason did not 



