The outlook is bad! bad!" "What can I do ?" "Cut out for yourself.

Get away, if you can, with a gun.

Take the creek below, follow the current down to the Ohio, and then make east for Fort Henry.
"But I want to rescue the white girl Jim Girty has concealed here somewhere." "Impossible! Don't attempt it unless you want to throw your life away.

Buzzard Jim, as we call Girty, is a butcher; he has probably murdered the girl." "I won't leave without trying.

And there's my wife, the Indian girl who saved me.