80 INDIAN PERTINACITY. 



After the whole company had been under 

 arms for an hour or two, finding the cause of 

 alarm approached no nearer, we again retired 

 to rest. But a Uttle before dayhght we were 

 again startled by the announcement — " The 

 Indians are corning I — they are upon the very 

 camp !'' In a moment every man was up in 

 arms; and several guns were presented to 

 * salute' the visitors, when, to our extreme 

 mortification, they were found to be but eight 

 or ten in number. They were immediately 

 dispatched, by signs, and directed to remaui 

 away till m orning— Avhich they did. 



On the following day, we had been in mo- 

 tion but a fcAV minutes, when the Indians be- 

 gan flocking around us in large numbers, and 

 by the time we encamped in the evening, we 

 had perhaps a thousand of these pertinacious 

 creatures, males and females, of all ages and 

 descriptions, about us. At night, every means, 

 without resorting to absolute violence, was 

 employed to drive them away, but without 

 entire success. At this time a small band of 

 wamors took the round of our camp, and 

 'serenaded' us with a monotonous sons of 

 hee-o-Jieh, with the view, I suppose, of 

 ing permission to remain ; hoping, no doubt, 

 to be able to ' drive a fair business' at pilfer- 

 m^ durmg the night. In fact, a few smaU 

 articles were aheady missmg, and it was now 

 discovered that {kej had purloined a pig of 

 lead (between fifty and a hundred pounds 

 weight) from one of the cannon-carriages, 

 "Brhere it had been carelessly left. This in- 



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