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Day after day brought renewals of these scenes, 

 deepening in interest as they drew towards their 

 close. A few individual incidents have been 

 recorded. A vouno^ Virginian, robbed of his wife 

 but a few months before, had volunteered in the 

 expedition with the faint bope of recovering her ; 

 and, after long suspense, had recognized her 

 among a troop of prisoners, bearing in her arms 

 a child born during her captivity. But the joy of 

 the meeting was bitterly alloyed by the loss of a 

 former child, not two years old, captured with the 

 mother, but soon taken from her, and carried, she 

 could not tell w^hither. Days passed on ; they 

 could learn no tidings of its fate, and the mother, 

 harrowed with terrible imagination^, was almost 

 driven to despair ; when, at length, she discovered 

 her child in the arms of an Indian warrior, and 

 snatched it with an irrepressible cry of transport. 



When the army, on its homeward march, reached 

 the town of Carlisle, those who had been unable 

 to follow the expedition came thither in numbers, 

 to inquire for the friends they had lost. Among 

 the rest was an old woman, whose daughter had 

 been carried oif nine years before. In the crowd 

 of female captives, she discovered one in whose 

 wild and swarthy features she discerned the altered 



lished in the Incidents of Bordei' Warfare, and other similar collections. 

 The autobiography of Mary Jemison, a woman captured by the Senecas 

 during the French war, and twice married among them, contains an 

 instance of attachment to Indian life similar to those mentioned above. 

 After the conclusion of hostilities, learning that she was to be given up to 

 the whites in accordance with a treaty, she escaped into the woods with 

 her half-breed children, and remained hidden, in great dismay and agita- 

 tion, until the search was over. She lived to an advanced age, but never 

 lost her attachment to the Indian life. 



