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want of provisions. Three went out, and 

 the chief, being an old man, was left to 

 take care of the prisoner, who by this time 

 expressed a willingness to proceed to the 

 Indian towns, which seemed to have the 

 desired effect of lessening her keeper's vi- 

 gilance. In the day-time, as the old man 

 was graining a deer-skin, the captive pon- 

 dering on her situation, and anxiously look- 

 ing for an opportunity to make her escape^ 

 took the resolution, and went to the Indian 

 carelessly, asked liberty to go a small distance 

 to a stream of water, to wash the blood off 

 her apron, that had remained besmeared 

 since the fatal night of the murder of her 

 little daughter. He told her, in the English 

 tongue, c Go along!' She then passed by 

 him, his face being in a contrary direction 

 from that she was going, and he very busy. 

 She, after getting to the water, proceeded 

 on without delay, made to a high barren 

 mountain, and travelled until late in the 

 evening, when she came down into the 

 valley, in search of the track she had been 



