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been seen, the poor girl was anything but a consent- 

 ing party. 



Early upon the morrow of the arrival of the mid- 

 shipman, who owned the unromantic name of James 

 Hodges, the Oconee warriors departed on a hunting 

 expedition, and the wounded man was removed to a 

 hut in the village. During their absence, Canondah, 

 at the entreaty of Eosa, between whom and the young 

 Englishman a kindness had grown up during the con- 

 valescence of the latter, and who feared for his life 

 should Tokeah discover him, disguised the midship- 

 man in Indian paint and apparel, supplied him with 

 arms, and explained to him the road to New Orleans, 

 which he trusted to find occupied by British troops. 

 She guided him through the swamp, and ferried him 

 across the Sabine, when some words she let fall 

 apprised him of the peril she and Eosa would be in 

 from her father's anger when he returned from his 

 hunting party, and was informed by the squaws of 

 the evasion of one . of the detested Americans, to 

 which nation he would naturally feel assured that 

 the English midshipman belonged. To avert all 

 danger from the heads of his deliverers, the young 

 man then wished to go back to the village, but this 

 the noble-minded girl refused to allow, and pushed 

 off her canoe from the shore, to which all his en- 

 treaties were insufficient to induce her to return. 

 She retraced her steps to the hamlet, and, shut 

 up in her wigwam with Eosa, awaited in alarm 



