Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 539
o straight ahead and not be luredout of their way, he suddenly turned and fired hismusket directly at the young major. Luckily theshot missed Washington. He and Gist disarmedtheir treacherous guide, and, although Gist wantedto despatch him then and there, at nightfall theyallowed him to go free,… … THROWN FROM THE RAFT INTO THE RIVER. t?ken them all day to construct with their onepoor hatchet, the ice fn the river so jammed theirfrail support that Washington was thrown over-board. As he said in his journal, I was thrownwith such violence against the pole that it jerkedme over into fen feet of…
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