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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 203 He followed the wash nearly to the mouth, and then dropped behind a large sage- brush, which he used for a rest to shoot from. He soon got range on an In-dian who was trying to put one of his wounded on a horse. The horse being between Snow and the In-dian, he could not see the body of the Indian, but judging from the position of his feet and legs, he decided that by shooting the horses through the body in the region of the heart the same shot would get the red man. The aim proved true, for at the report of the rifle the horse fell and the Indian was wounded. He was picked up by two of his braves and spirited away. The wounded Indian was none other than the famous Black Hawk, though at the time it was n-> t known. Mr. Snow had a narrow escape in this af-fair, for he was fully 600 yards from the rest of the whites and was closely pursued by three of the en-emy. While getting away from them, Snow caught his saber between his legs and fell. Four men were dispatched to resue him and thus he was saved from the torture of the red men. When the tide of the battle seemed turned in favor the whites, though their ammunition was by this time exhausted, a cloud of dust from the direction of Bound Valley suggested to the militia that more Indian were coming ; a retreat was therefore ordered. Black Hawk's good fortune again befriended him; the approaching horsemen were a company of Fill-more cavalry, seventy strong under Captain Owens. Before they effected a junction with General Pace the slippery foe were safe in their mountain fast-nesses. |