Hans, always ready in emergency, was prompt in this. He placed the chief before him and proceeded in this manner on board his boat.

As he expected,

the Indians dared not risk

their chieftain's life, for they well knew the quick arm of Hans

would place him between the arrow and its intended victim. Just at the point of safety, the Indians separated so that they could kill their enemy without endangering the life of their chief.

Hans again raised his knife, and proclaimed that the first arrow was stronger than his love of life.

But the enmity of the chief He gave the war-whoop

a cloud of arrows darkened the air

the glittering knife descended

that flew the chief should

and the chief was no more. and shoved

his boat

off".

die.

Wounded, Hans stepped on board

The

Indians flew to their canoes ;

the pursuit was speedy and the arm of Hans blood.

weak from loss of

He was soon overtaken and carried back in company

with Katrina and her friends.

Speedily the bridal pair were ways savage barbarity could

tied to trees and tortured in all the

Then gathering the materials for the fire, they kindled the flame and celebrated the dance of death around their vic

devise.

tims in fiendish glee, until the forms of Hans and his fair bride

were mingled with the ashes of the pyre their embrace of love was at the stake of death. " The remaining captives were treated more humanely, and were subsequently ransomed by their friends." Such is the tradition'.