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Title: Camp-fire and Wigwam

Author: Edward Sylvester Ellis

Release Date: July 4, 2008 [EBook #25966]

Language: English

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CAMP-FIRE AND WIGWAM.

By EDWARD S. ELLIS

AUTHOR OF "NED IN THE BLOCK-HOUSE," "NED IN THE WOODS," "NED ON THE
RIVER," "THE LOST TRAIL," ETC.

PHILADELPHIA:
PORTER & COATES.

COPYRIGHT, 1885,
BY PORTER & COATES.

[Illustration: JACK'S WRESTLING BOUT WITH THE YOUNG INDIAN.]

CONTENTS.

I.--AT HOME

II.--A DOUBTFUL ENTERPRISE

III.--WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED

IV.--CAPTORS AND CAPTIVES

V.--JOURNEYING SOUTHWARD

VI.--AN INVOLUNTARY BATH

VII.--TWO VISITORS

VIII.--A SURPRISE

IX.--BY THE CAMP-FIRE

X.--WAITING AND HOPING

XI.--THROUGH THE FOREST

XII.--THE SIGNAL FIRES

XIII.--THE INDIAN VILLAGE

XIV.--ON THE MOUNTAIN CREST

XV.--THE RETURN AND DEPARTURE

XVI.--A PERPLEXING QUESTION

XVII.--TWO ACQUAINTANCES AND FRIENDS

XVIII.--THE TRAPPERS

XIX.--DEERFOOT'S WOODCRAFT

XX.--SAUK AND SHAWANOE

XXI.--CHRISTIAN AND PAGAN

XXII.--AN ABORIGINAL SERMON

XXIII.--IN THE LODGE OF OGALLAH

XXIV.--A ROW

XXV.--THE WAR FEAST

XXVI.--AN ALARMING DISCOVERY

XXVII.--"GAH-HAW-GE"

XXVIII.--A PATIENT OF THE MEDICINE MAN

XXIX.--CONVALESCENCE

XXX.--OUT IN THE WORLD

XXXI.--JOURNEYING EASTWARD

XXXII.--A MISCALCULATION

XXXIII.--CONCLUSION

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

JACK'S WRESTLING BOUT WITH THE YOUNG INDIAN

A NARROW ESCAPE

THE SIGNAL

DEERFOOT'S VICTORY

CAMP-FIRE AND WIGWAM.

CHAPTER I.

AT HOME.

On th