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Knight, a small and weak-looking man, was sent 

 to be burned at the Shawnee towns, under the care 

 of a burly savage. Making friends with the latter, 

 he lulled his suspicions, the more easily because 

 the Indian evidently regarded so small a man with 

 contempt; and then, watching his opportunity, he 

 knocked his guard down and ran off into the woods, 

 eventually making his way to the settlements. 



Another of the captives, Slover by name, made 

 a more remarkable escape. Slover's life history 

 had been curious. When a boy eight years old, 

 living near the springs of the Kanawha, his family 

 was captured by Indians, his brother alone escaping. 

 His father was killed, and his two little sisters died 

 of fatigue on the road to the Indian villages; his 

 mother was afterward ransomed. He lived twelve 

 years with the savages, at first in the Miami towns, 

 and then with the Shawnees. When twenty years 

 old he went to Fort Pitt, where, by accident, he 

 was made known to some of his relations. They 

 pressed him to rejoin his people, but he had become 

 so wedded to savage life that he at first refused. 

 At last he yielded, however, and took up his abode 

 with the men of his own color, and became a good 

 citizen, and a worthy member of the Presbyterian 

 Church. At the outbreak of the Revolution he 

 served fifteen months as a Continental soldier, and 

 when Crawford started against the Sandusky In- 

 dians, he went along as a scout. 



Slover, when captured, was taken round to va- 

 rious Indian towns, and saw a number of his com- 



