Identifier: outdoorlifeindia00elli (find matches)
Title: Outdoor life and Indian stories : making open air life attractive to young Americans by telling them all about woodcraft, signs and signaling, the stars, fishing, camping ... : also stories of noted hunters and scouts, great Indians and warriors ... all of them true and interesting
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916
Subjects: Indians of North America Camping
Publisher: (Philadelphia? : s.n.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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re widely separated. Here and there, the command-ants, or those under them, had made warm friends of the redmen, who could be counted upon to give them notice of anydanger. It was impossible, therefore, to keep the plot secretduring the two years it was coming to a head; the wonder isthat it did not become generally known much earlier thanwas actually the fact The records of all wars with savages betray a strangeblindness on the part of the whites to the signs of dangeraround them. This blindness may be due to their unwillingnessto believe ill of those who have acted well for a long time, butnone the less, it is hard to understand why it should deceivethose who ought to be the last ones in the world to be caughtoff their guard in such surroundings Ensign Holmes had charge of the small garrison at FortMiama, where Fort Wayne, Indiana, now stands. One day,an Indian of the neighborhood, who had shown a strongliking for the officer, came to him with the war belt that had 1 enOm nO H 2 JLi
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