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 (14566564408)

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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PONTIACS PLOT been brought to his tribe by one of Pontiacs messengers. TheEnsigns suspicions were roused, and he questioned his duskyfriend closely. He revealed the whole plot. Holmes sent the war belt to Major Gladwyn, command-ant at Detroit, with a letter telling all that he had learned,and asking him to send the news to General Amherst. Mis-chief was in the air, and precautions could not be taken toosoon. Gladwyn, as requested, sent a runner to Amherst, bear-ing a letter which told what Ensign Holmes thought he hadfound out. The major tookpains to add that he did notcredit the story and was surethere was no danger! It wasthe same old blunder thathas been made times with-out number, and doubtlesswill continue to be made tothe end of all things. Our interest for thepresent is with Pontiac. Tendays before the date fixed forthe general uprising and at-tack, he called his warriors together some miles from the fort,and made them a fiery address which aroused them to hurricaneardor. He ha