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swamps, wherein the Indian woman might nurse her 

 babe and till her corn-fields, while the braves revenged' 

 their losses by some foray so distant, unexpected, and 

 bloody, as to countervail all rules of warfare, and render 

 useless all prevention, and impossible all redress. This 

 was not one perpetual war, but a succession of wars, 

 separated by treaties and truces more or less long, and 

 more or less faithfully kept. During these truces, 

 sutlers, relying on the promises of the United States 

 Government, made settlements in the territory, and with 

 the fearlessness and temerity of the American borderer, 

 pushed their outermost farms within the lines of the 

 Indian territory. Sometimes, under favor of a particu- 

 lar Indian chief or band, they were protected for years, 

 and remained safe while others were massacred. But at 

 length some wrong done to their people would so excite 

 the Indians that no individual favor could be a protection, 

 and the outposts of the settlers were Avhelmed in flame 

 and blood. 



Far Away had been an instance of this kind of reliance 

 upon this most uncertain estate, and its existence had 

 been prolonged by the hospitality of the planter ; but 

 courtesy could not avail in the hour of general retribu- 

 tion, and the revenge bred by years of accumulating 

 wrongs swept over the homestead like a spring freshet. 



In a few days after our arrival, a government vessel, 

 sailing by way of Key West for St. Augustine, offered 

 Lou Jackson a passage, with her peoj^le, which she 

 accepted, and departed, carrying Duke with her, and 



