James Watson Webb's Trip Across Illinois in 1822 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from James Watson Webb's Trip Across Illinois in 1822

To encamp without wood was an impossibility. The country is a high, rolling prairie, and from a naked hill, about five o'clock in the afternoon, I discovered an island of woods, lying southwest of us and distant some ten miles. Hen the Indian saw the distance yet to travel, the hope with which I had all along cheered him failed, and he announced his utter inability to proceed. To place him on our horse was certain death to him; to remain with him in the prairie, without wood and consequently without fire, was as cer tain death to all; yet he begged most piteously that we would not abandon him! He was but a boy, and, although even at that age, he might meet death at the stake with all an Indian's coolness, he could not make up his mind to a death from fatigue and cold. I reasoned with him upon the folly of all perish ing, in an idle attempt to save one, pointed out the wood to him and promised him to build a large fire to guide him to us as soon as we reached it, and, with a heavy heart, took leave of him with but little expectation of seeing him again.

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