Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 182
stols, embarked in theirflotilla, with a brisk wind blowing astern, andfollowed the Ragged Staff up the river. John King and his crew had establishedthemselves at the mouth of a little stream onthe west shore of the river, thirty miles aboveits mouth, and already had collected a quan-tity of furs.… … craftily up through thewoods, burst upon them with a shout,and took them captive, every man, with-out so much as a single shot or a stabfrom a dinner-knife, though there were, in truth,some thumping blows in the sailing-masterscorner. Trussing their prisoners up like fowls, theDutch carried them…
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