CHAPTER XII - Track's End / Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There as Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full - 27

I give the savage Indians a great Scare, and then gather up my scattered Family at the end of a queer Christmas Day.One of my Letters to my Mother, in which I tell of many Things and especially of a Mystery which greatly puzzles and alarms me.