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liking the looks of the men, refused to land, but the 

 fourth, a reckless fellow named Flynn, and the two 

 girls, who were coarse, foolish, good-natured fron 

 tier women of the lower sort, took pity upon the 

 seeming fugitives, and insisted on taking them 

 aboard. Accordingly the scow was shoved inshore, 

 and Flynn jumped on the bank, only to be immedi 

 ately seized by the Indians, who then opened fire 

 on the others. They tried to put off, and fired back, 

 but they were helpless; one man and a girl were 

 shot, another wounded, and the savages then 

 swarmed aboard, seized everything, and got very 

 drunk on a keg of whiskey. The fates of the cap 

 tives were various, each falling to some different 

 group of savages. Flynn, the cause of the trouble, 

 fell to the Cherokees, who took him to the Miami 

 town, and burned him alive, with dreadful tor 

 ments. The remaining girl, after suffering outrage 

 and hardship, was bound to the stake, but saved by 

 a merciful Indian, who sent her home. Of the two 

 remaining men, one ran the gantlet successfully, 

 and afterward escaped and reached home through 

 the woods, while the other was ransomed by a 

 French trader at Sandusky. 



Before thus disposing of their captives the In 

 dians hung about the mouth of the Scioto for some 

 time. They captured a pirogue going up-stream, 

 and killed all six paddlers. Soon afterward three 

 heavily laden scows passed, drifting down with the 

 current. Aboard these were twenty-eight men, with 

 their women and children, together with many horses 



