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HE Indians struck a straight line for their home in the wilderness, avoiding villages, and traveling with as few halts as possible. The distance was nearly three hundred miles. This they accomplished in six days.

Nattie was kept drugged, and either borne on the old Indian's back, or dragged on the sledge by the two boys, the whole distance. She was kept in this unconscious state lest she should retain some remembrance of the route, and make an at tempt to find her way back to her friends. But