Adventures Among the Indians Author:William Henry Giles Kingston Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Tht: sun rose and shone forth brightly on the earth. There was the sonnd of winged creatures in Robert Nixon's ears as he once more awoke and gaze... more »d languidly around. His first impulse was to attempt to rise, but the anguish he suffered the instant he moved reminded him of the injuries he had received. Vain were his efforts; to stand up was impossible. Although the wolves for the time were gone, they, to a certainty, would return at night, and thus, without ammunition, how could he defend himself against them ? He might subsist on the meat of the buffalo for a day or two, but that would soon become uneatable, and as he could scarcely hope to - recover from his hurt for many days; even ifhe escaped the wolves, he must die of starvation. Again he sank into a state of mental stupor, though his eye still remained cognizant of external objects. As the old hunter thus lay on the ground his eye fell on a horseman riding rapidly by. He was a Sal- tenx, or Ojibway Indian, a people having a deadly feud with his friends, the Sioux. The eight roused him. To kill the man and capture his horse was the idea which at once occurred to him. Rousing himself by a violent exertion he levelled his rifle and fired. Not for an instant did he hesitate about taking the life of a fellow-creature. That fellow-creature was a foe of his friends, whose badge he wore, and would, he believed, kill him if he was discovered. He had miscalculated his powers—his eye had grown dim, his arm had lost its nerve; the bullet which once would have proved a sure messenger of death flew wide of its mark, and the Indian sat his horse unharmed. Heturned, however, immediately, and galloped towards the spot whence the shot came. The old hunter had expended his last bullet. With grim satisfaction he awaited the India...« less