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took him towards Sandusky; met two warriors on the way and got drunk with them, when one of the savages fell upon the boy and beat him so unmercifully that he ran into the woods and hid behind a log. They soon missed him and searched for him with torches, calling out, "White man 1 white man!" but Brickell lay still, and when the warriors left he went into camp again. At the Seneca town he had to run the gauntlet, and was bruised from head to mot, but a chief came up, threw the rest off of him, and led him through the lines with such rapidity that his feet scarce touched ground. Those who were the worst at the beating were now the kindest, and did all they could to cure him up but he was over two months getting well. His impression was that the Indian who rescued him was Captain Pipe himself.

His owner took himself a wife at the Seneca towns, and all then traveled on to the Maumee towns and the Auglaize, where he was adoptea into the family of Whingroy Pooshies, or Big Cat, one of the best of the Delaware chiefs. He was treated exactly as one of the family, his employment being mostly hunting. They had a comfortable log cabin and seven acres of corn to cultivate. They slept on skins stretched on raised platforms, the men pulling off all but their breech-clouts and using the clothes for pillows. Brickell became a thorough Indian boy, adopting their clothes, customs, &c. He says the Delawares were excellent at raising children, never whipping and scarcely ever scolding them, but exacting order and obedience. A dozen might be in one cabin, of all ages, and scarcely any noise at all. They spent much time training their children in their ideas of right and virtue. Honesty, bravery and hospitality were their cardinal virtues, and the young were taught to honor and revere the aged, especially their parents.

When St. Clair's army was reported to be advancing, all the squaws and children were moved down the Maumee to await the result of the battle. After the Indian victory, the Indians came home laden down with spoils; Big Cat's share of the booty being two fine horses, four elegant tents, clothing in abundance, axes, guns, &c. There was much joy among them. Soon after he and another lad went hunting and came across a skeleton stripped of flesh, which his companion said had been eaten by the Chippewa Indians who were at the battle, and he. called them brutes to so use their prisoners.

Two Touching Incidents of Indian Generosity.

Brickell soon came across some whites captured at St. Clair's dereat, when one of them, Isaac Patton, told him that as a certain Isaac Choat was sitting, after his capture, in a very melancholy mood, his owner 47