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fled to the fort, and on looking back they saw their 

 mortally wounded friend weltering on the ground. 

 His wife and family were within the walls ; through 

 the loopholes they could see him yet alive, and ex- 

 posed every moment to death. So great was the 

 danger that the men refused to go out to his rescue, 

 whereupon Logan alone opened the gate, bounded 

 out, and seizing the wounded man in his arms, car- 

 ried him back unharmed through a shower of bul- 

 lets. The Indians continued to lurk around the 

 neighborhood, and the ammunition grew very 

 scarce. Thereupon Logan took two companions and 

 left the fort at night to go to the distant settlements 

 on the Holston, where he might get powder and 

 lead. He knew that the Indians were watching the 

 Wilderness Road, and trusting to his own hardiness 

 and consummate woodcraft, he struck straight out 

 across the cliff-broken, woodkovered mountains, 

 sleeping wherever night overtook him, and travel- 

 ing all day long with the tireless speed of a wolf. 24 

 He returned with the needed stores in ten days from 

 the time he set out. These tided the people over the 

 warm months. 



-In the fall, when the hickories had turned yellow 

 and the oaks deep red, during the weeks of still, 

 hazy weather that mark the Indian summer, their 



94 Not a fanciful comparison ; the wolf is the only animal 

 that an Indian or a trained frontiersman can not tire out in 

 several days' travel. Following a deer two days in light 

 snow, I have myself gotten near enough to shoot it without 

 difficulty. 



