the river where their canoes

were moored, jumped in and paddled after Stacy, who, by this time, had got some distance out in the stream. They gained on him so fast that twice he dropped his paddle and took up his by telling him that, fired, and they were afterwards overtaken, they would meet with no mercy from the Indians. He accordingly refrained,

gun. if he

But his wife prevented

his shooting,

HUDSON RWER INDIANS.

and applied his paddle till the sweat rolled in big drops from his All would not do ; they were overtaken within a forehead. hundred yards from the shore, and carried back, with shouts of yelling and triumph.

" When

they got ashore, the Indians set fire to Stacy's house, his wife and children to their village.

and dragged himself,

Here the principal old men, and Naoman among them, assembled on the

deliberate

to

The chief men of

affair.

the

council

stated, that some one of the tribe had, undoubtedly, been guilty

of treason, in apprizing Stacy, the white man, of the designs of the tribe, whereby they took the alarm, and well nigh escaped. He proposed to examine the prisoners, to learn who gave the

The old men assented to this, and Naoman among

information.

Stacy was

first interrogated by one of the old men, Stacy English and interpreted it to the others. refused to betray his informant. His wife was then questioned,

the rest.

who spoke

while at the same moment, two Indians stood threatening the two children with tomahawks, in case she did not confess. She attempted to evade the truth, by declaring that she had a dream the night before, which alarmed her, and that she had persuaded