Charles Cist
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 328
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...saved my life. She proved to be the interpretress, who was present when we were first taken, April 14th, 1782. After three weeks detention, we started again under two new conductors, (sent by the Chief Officer at Detroit, ) and arrived in sight of Detroit on my 62d anniversary, at the mouth of a river, which, connecting Lakes Erie, Huron and St. Clair, passes Detroit. This aroused heartfelt joy and great gratitude towards our Almighty God for his parental care, and more especially in reaching Detroit on the 20th April, after a very stormy voyage across the waters, coming very near foundering. We were very kindly received by the commanding officer, who furnished us with shelter, and with his wife visited us twice every day, furnishing us provision. After tarrying three months, a number of our Indian brethren followed us, which caused us to look for a location, which we found (July 20, ) thirty miles from Detroit, on Huron rimer. We commenced building huts, cultivating land, and strove to collect our scattered flock of brethren--expecting here to remain in peace and quiet, being twenty miles from any neighbour. Our Indian brethren came in, and so fast--putting up huts and houses, that in two years time, we had a beautiful location and every convenience. A remarkable circumstance befel me, on a very rainy day. Being very thirsty, I took a bucket to a spring under the hill, on the left of which was a two foot thick Aspentree and two and a half foot Black Oak; on the right, a deep miry bog. As I was about to return to the house a terrible whirlwind arose, tearing one of the trees into fragments, and casting them all around me; the other tree torn up by the roots, and thrown down aside of me. Stunned with the terrible noise and fright, I fell to.