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then yelling out a " Buen viage d los infiernos I " got 

 into their boat and speedily disappeared in the foo- 

 and darkness. 



Hodges was pursued and recaptured, but Tokeah 

 and Eosa, who, with their companions, were brought 

 in by a party of militia, and the latter of whom was 

 joyfully recognised and welcomed by the worthy 

 Squire Copeland, cleared him of the charge of spying, 

 and he remained a prisoner of war. The troops took 

 their departure for oSTew Orleans, and the Indians 

 were detained at the town, whence, however, Tokeah 

 and El Sol departed in the night-time, and continued 

 their journey. The old chief accomplished his object, 

 disinterred his father's bones, and returned to fetch 

 Eosa, and proceed with her to his new home in the 

 country of the Comanches. Meanwhile the action of 

 New Orleans had been fought, and he finds, to his 

 grief and astonishment, that Lafitte, whose life he 

 had spared in the expectation of his meeting punish- 

 ment at the hands of the Americans, had actually 

 been fighting in their ranks, and had received, as a 

 reward for his services, a free pardon, coupled, how- 

 ever, with an injunction to quit the territory of the 

 United States. Through an advertisement in an old 

 newspaper, traces had been discovered of Eosa's 

 father, who was a Mexican of high rank. She had 

 been stolen by a tribe of Indians with whom Tokeah 

 was at war, and from whose hands he rescued her. 

 Tokeah had an interview with General Jackson, who 



