The Indian instantly disappeared.

The Doctor exclaimed, 'Oh! why has that Indian shot me?
I never did him or any of them any injury.

To kill me, too, when I was just returning to my wife and my little child, which I have never seen! It is more painful than death.' His conversation was very pathetic, as related by the soldier, and all who heard him were greatly affected.
"The Indian says he shot him without any cause or malice; that the thought came into his head, about two minutes before, that he would kill one of the four; and when he saw the Doctor on the top of the hill, he concluded he would fire at him, to see how pretty he would fall off his horse." These things transpired late in the fall.

I did not reach Albany till late in December, and immediately began to prepare my geological report..