CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I.]—A Bird’s Eye View of the Delaware and Neversink Valleys from Hawk’s Nest Mountains.

[CHAPTER II.]—The Water Spout.

[CHAPTER III.]—Tom and Drake at the Lifting Rocks.

[CHAPTER IV.]—The Bear and Panther.

[CHAPTER V.]—Parting of Mother and Child.

[CHAPTER VI.]—Cahoonshee.

[CHAPTER VII.]—The House of Death.

[CHAPTER VIII.]—Cahoonshee on the Origin of Man.

[CHAPTER IX.]—The Teacher and Pupil.

[CHAPTER X.]—Asleep on her Mother’s Grave—Going Fishing—True until Death.

[CHAPTER XI.]—The Second Lesson—Completing his Education—Found new Friends—The Mutiny—Death of Sambo.

[CHAPTER XII.]—Moccasin tracks in the sand—Cahoonshee at the Climbing Tree—The Battle of the Neversink—Drake’s fearful leap—The virtue of the Grape Vine.

[CHAPTER XIII.]—The Dead Shot—The Bee Tree—Amy a Prisoner in the hands of the Indians.

[CHAPTER XIV.]—Restored to reason—Cora, the Rough Diamond—A Temperance Lecture—Found two Grand-Fathers.

[CHAPTER XV.]—Death of Admiral Powers—Five years in a Mad House—Appointed a Lieutenant—Return to America.

[CHAPTER XVI.]—The bee hunters—Drake and Rolla on the trail—Call of the tree toad—Answer of the blue-jay.

[CHAPTER XVII.]—The storm—Buried in the river—Old Shell to the rescue—Which is which and what is what?

[CHAPTER XVIII.]—The hunt—The fatal shot.

[CHAPTER XIX.]—Mutual mistakes—The lost child found—Cahoonshee’s last will.

[CHAPTER XX.]—Farewell to earth—Cahoonshee on the future—Death of Cahoonshee—Married on her mother’s grave.

[CHAPTER XXI.]—Cora receives her reward.

[CHAPTER XXII.]—Death of Thomas Quick, Sr., and the threat of his son Tom.

[CHAPTER XXIII.]—Tom kept his vow and had his revenge.

[CHAPTER XXIV.]—Killing a buck with seven skins—The biter bitten—Throwing a young Indian down the rocks—Hiding guns in hollow trees.

[CHAPTER XXV.]—The whiskey scene—Six Indians roasted.

[CHAPTER XXVI.]—Capture, escape and death of Tom—Honored by a monument.