Identifier: thrillingadventu00fros_1 (find matches)
Title: Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Indians of North America Indian captivities
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley Lowell, L. P. Crown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and would rather lose the lastdrop of his blood than betray the cause he hadespoused. He was fond of recounting his exploits,and, savage-like, dwelt with much satisfaction uponthe number of scalps he had taken in his skirmisheswith the whites. In company with several other chiefs, he once paida visit to General Washington, who presented himwith a silver medal. This he constantly wore sus-pended from his neck, and so precious was the gift inhis eyes, that he often declared he would lose it onlywith his life. Soon after the battles of Chippewaand Bridgewater, this veteran paid the debt of natureat the Seneca village, and, out of respect to hisbravery, he was there interred with military honoursfrom the fifth regiment of United States Infantry. In the northern part of the American continent,the subterraneous retreats of the black bear may beeasily discovered by the mist which uniformly hangsabout the entrance of the den, as the animals heatand breathing prevent the mouth of the cave from
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INDIAN BEAR HUNT. 427 being entirely closed, however deep tlie snow maybe. As the black bear usually retires to his winterquarters before any quantity of snow has fallen, anddoes not again venture abroad till the end of Marchor the beginning of April, he therefore spends atleast four months in a state of torpidity, and withoutobtaining food. It is therefore not very surprising,though the bear goes into his winter quarters exces-sively fat, that he should come forth in the spring amelancholy picture of emaciation. The black bear is sometimes destroyed by blockingup the mouth of the cave with logs of wood, andthen suddenly breaking open the top of it, they kill theanimal with a spear or gun. This method is, however,considered both cowardly and wanton, as the bear canneither escape nor offer the slightest injury to hismerciless destroyers. The northern Indians displaygreat ingenuity in the manner in which they throwthe noose around the neck of this-animal; but thebarbarous way in which t

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