135 white meu arrived at Schoenbrunn, in pursuit of the savages, who all fled, except the chief. He remained stolid for a moment, brandishing his tomahawk in the air. then burying it as he thought in the head of his captive, but. by a timely movement of one of the Christian Indians of the mission with a club, the instrument of death fell from the chief’s hand harm less by the side of the woman. In another moment the chief was seized, tied to a tree, and a guard of Christian Indians set to watch him until it should be determined what should be his fate. The missionary Zeisberger took the released captive to his cabin, and soon succeeded in restoring her to consciousness, when she beheld among the men who had pursued the Indians, her own brother. He in his rage at the inhuman barbarities inflicted upon his sister, asked that he might be allowed the privilege, single handed, of becom ing her avenger. This was accorded him by his comrades, but the missionary here interposed agsinst the shedding of the blood of the chief, as none had been shed, and claiming that all the iuhuman conduct of this Indian was the consequence of liquor he had obtained among white men. and that as a
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