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for an instant & withdrew his eye from the pursuers. Nailer? availed himself of this moment to fire; and words scratched out His gun was heavily charged with buckshot. Tuke gave a leap & was out of sight in an instant.

      The pursuers followed his track. It was covered with blood. But it was presently broken, and they held back for a while, baffled and probably intimidated. 
      Ere long cries were heard for water. The Indians were induced to follow -lined out go onward and about two hundred yards from where they lost sight of Tuke, they found him in the bushes. He was maddened with thirst & thought himself dying. His words scratched out right arm was shattered with the shot and his right ribs laid bare. His left hand still grasped a spanish dirk knife. Finding he was disabled, Nailer & the whites went up. He uttered no complaint. He exhibited no signs of suffering beyond the cry for water. He allowed word scratched out allowed himself to be taken away without saying a word or making a struggle. word scratched out