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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e chiefs knew they hadbeen cheated and remained defiant. What specially angeredOsceola was that some of them, upon whom he had countedfor support, were won over by the agent. This was done nodoubt through the corrupt means that had convinced thosewho reported favorably on the country selected for their newhomes beyond the Mississippi. He accused General Thomp-son of unfairness. The quarrel became so heated that theagent had Osceola put in irons. He was kept over night anda part of two days, finally gaining his release by promisingGeneral Thompson to sign the treaty, and use his influenceto persuade the other chiefs to do the same. A REMARKABLE FLIGHT 221 Osceola was a half-breed, and this submission was simplya ruse to gain his freedom. His heart burned with rage,and he yearned for the chance to strike him who had put thecrowning shame upon him. As might have been expected,the mongrel was hardly free of the camp when the outrageswere renewed with more ferocity than ever. He killed one
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THAT IS MY OPINION! of the friendly chiefs, and then the Seminoles left all theirtowns, and took their families far into the gloomy swamps,beyond reach of the white men. The remarkable thing aboutthis removal was that it was done with such skill that not theslightest sign showed where the fugitives had gone. Themost skillful scouts of the American army tried for weeks to 222 THE HERO OF THE EVERGLADES trace their hiding place, but in not a single instance did theysucceed. The feat was marvelous, nothing of the kind hav-ing been known before or since. The government could no longer shut its eyes to thefact that it had a serious war on its hands. Unless protectionwas quickly given to the inhabitants of Florida, most of themwould be massacred. The Seminoles were in dead earnest.General Clinch had charge of Fort King, and would havebeen doomed had not Major Bade reached him with reinforce-ments. On the day before Christmas, 1835, Dade, with onehundred men and eight officers, and a fieldpi

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