He could hear their muster-roll called every morning, and their drums beat to quarters at night, and not a change of the sentinels escaped him.

As it was suspected that he was lurking somewhere on the property, his family were closely watched, and compelled to use the utmost precaution in supplying him with food.

One of his daughters, a child of eight or ten years old, was employed as the agent least likely to be suspected.

She was an instance, among others, that a time of danger and difficulty creates a premature sharpness of intellect.

She made herself acquainted among the soldiers, till she became so familiar to them that her motions escaped their notice; and her practice was to stroll away into the neighbourhood of the cave, and leave what slender supply of food she carried for that purpose under some remarkable stone, or the root of some tree, where her father might find it as he crept by night from his lurking-place.