Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 30: what you’re looking at

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33 SALOUEH, THE CHEROKES been taken off, their hunting-shirts were loosened to the eyep- ing breeze, and their rifles lay on the ground by their side, within easy reach. “Do you know how far we are from Fort George ?” asked Stafford. “A good march ya: or a ‘Sad one, as I am afraid ‘it will be,” replied his friend. =~ ~ “Why do you say bad one?” | Because I am convinced that the worst of our task is yet before us. It has been easy enough to march up here into the Indian country, to defeat a few scattered bodies of red- skins, and to bura the villages which we have mef, while the greater part of the enemy were engaged in besieging the fort ; but we have work to do now, and 1 doubt whether-our num- bers are s it.” «* You say truly that we have the most difficult wetted the worst enemy yet to meet. Oconostota is beyond us with - his forces, and we have not fallen in with Saloueh! ‘When the former strikes at our head, the latter will aay ‘be biting our heels.” —~ | weaere “That is not all. They will have too many chests to strike and bite us.. There are plenty of places this side of — Fort , Where the red-skins can do us a great deal of — if they know how to take advantage of the ground.” | “T will be bound for them that they know how to. 16" advantage of every chance that can be offered to -“ There is one valley, in particular, which it will hardly be possible for wien oy if they take the precagtion*to opps “You may be sare that they will doi Had you not bet! these matters to the commander ?” > est have already explained them to him as much 4s is neces- sary. It was hardly worth while ‘todo so, except for the pur- caution, for we are bound tu Spo aaieeyt 10's — or to make the attempt, at all events.” “The commander has no doubts, I am sure, for he believes pa td tien regulars Can foree-a passage: mie 40 thelr way? If we could meet q is Ore Ee etn field, we “could” soon ‘show ‘our’ —_ os. = | Wcomicbooksicom ee bw _— a se lO Se ee