Excerpt from Indian Anecdotes and Barbarities: Being a Description of Their Customs and Deeds of Cruelty, With an Account of the Captivity, Sufferings and Heroic Conduct of Many Who Have Fallen Into Their Hands, or Who Have Defended Themselves From Savage Vengeance Early the next morning, Mrs. Woods going a short distance from the house, 'discovered seven or eight Indians lying in ambush. On discovering them she instantly fled, and while attempting to close the door, one of the savages who had pursued her, being in advance of his companions, pushed it Open, rushed in. And attacked the lame negro. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.