Identifier: thrillingadventu00bray (find matches)
Title: Thrilling adventures by land and sea. Being remarkable historical facts, gathered from authentic sources
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Brayman, James O., 1815-1887, ed
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Buffalo, G. H. Derby and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ing of 1782, a party of twenty-fiveWyandots secretly approached Estills station, andcommitted shocking outrages. Entering a cabin,they tomahawked and scalped a woman and her twodaughters. The neighborhood was instantly alarm-ed. Captain Estill speedily collected a body oftwenty-five men, and pursued the hostile trail withgreat rapidity. He came up with the savages onHinkston fork of Licking, immediately after theyhad crossed it; and a most severe and desperateconflict ensued. Estill, unfortunately, sent six of his men underLieutenant Miller, to attack the enemys rear. TheIndian leader immediately availed himself of thisdimunition of force, rushed upon the weakened lineof his adversaries, and compelled him to give way.A total route ensued. Captain Estill was killedtogether with his gallant lieutenant, South. Fourmen were wounded and fortunately escaped. Ninefell under the tomahawk, and were scalped. TheIndians also suffered severely, and are believed tohave lost half of their warriors.
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BY LAND AND SEA. 361 INCIDENT AT NIAGARA FALLS. On Saturday, the 13th of July, 1850, as a boy,ten years old, was rowing his father over to theirhome on Grand Island, the father being so much in-toxicated as not to be able to assist any more thanto steer the canoe, the wind, which was very strongoff shore, so frustrated the efforts of his tiny arm,that the canoe in spite of him, got into the current,and finally into the rapids, within a very few rods ofthe Falls! On went the frail shell, careering andplunging as the mad waters chose. Still the gallantlittle oarsman maintained his struggle with the ra-ging billows, and actually got the canoe, by his per-severing manoeuvring so close to Iris Island, as tohave her driven by a providential wave in betweenthe little islands called the Sisters. Here the fatherand his dauntless boy weve in still greater dangerfor an instant; for there is a fall between the twoislands, over which had they gone, no earthly powercould have withheld their final p

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