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soon had a great fire blazing, and then cutting a piece from 
the last wolf he had: killed, proceeded to-roast it for food. 
When he had eaten, he felt.so much refreshed that he could 
now proceed to make provision for the night’s rest. He 
gathered a igreat deal of dried wood, and built a large fire 
in a circle about the spot he had selected to Heep upon. 
The wolves came back in about an hour after he had finished 
his arrangements for the night; but he now felt perfectly 
secure, for though he could see their hungry eyes shining 
all round the outside of the*circle; and they kept up a 
continued howling all night long, he. laid himself down and 
slept soundly until morning. 
When he waked up, the-wolves were all gone but one or 
two, craunching at the bones of yesterday’s feast. He shot 
one of them with his pistol, and made a breakfast off of it 
He picked up the gun, and found that though very much 
torn, it could still be. used. He now took his course, and 
started to foot it into the settlements. After a week of 
almost incredible suffering, he got in safe, and saw nothing 
more of the wolves or of his comrades, who are thought to 
have been carried off prisoners, and afterwards murdered 
by the Indians on their attempting to escape. 
Dan was sick of a fever for several weeks at Corpus Christi 
after he got in, and raved incessantly about wolves. 
