Those only who have travelled on foot the distance of five or six hundred miles, through an almost pathless wilderness, can form an idea of the fatigue and sufferings that I endured on that journey. My clothing was thin and illy calculated to defend me from the continually drenching rains with which I was daily completely wet, and at night with nothing but my wet blanket to cover me, I had to sleep on the naked ground, and generally without a shelter, save such as nature had provided. In addition to all that, I had to carry my child, then about nine months old, every step of the journey on my back, or in my arms, and provide for his comfort and prevent his suffering, as far as my poverty of means would admit. Such was the fatigue that I sometimes felt, that I thought it impossible for me to go through, and I would almost abandon the idea of even trying to proceed. My brothers were attentive, and at length, as I have stated, we reached our place of destination, in good health, and without having experienced a day's sickness from the time we left Yiskahwana. We were kindly received by my Indian mother and the other members of the family, who appeared to make me welcome; and my two sisters, whom I had not seen in two years, received me with every expression of love and friendship, and that they really felt what they expressed, I have never had the least reason to doubt. The warmth of their feelings, the kind reception which I met with, and the continued favors that I received at their hands, rivetted my affection for them so strongly that I am constrained to believe that I loved them as I should have loved my own sister had she lived, and I had been brought up with her. * * * * * CHAPTER V. Indians march to Niagara to fight the British.--Return with two Prisoners, &c.--Sacrifice them at Fall-Brook.--Her Indian Mother's Address to her Daughter.--Death of her Husband.--Bounty offered for the Prisoners taken in the last war.--John Van Sice attempts to take her to procure her Ransom.--Her Escape.--Edict of the Chiefs.--Old King of the tribe determines to have her given up.--Her brother threatens her Life.--Her narrow Escape.--The old King goes off.--Her brother is informed of the place of her concealment, and conducts her home.--Marriage to her second Husband.--Names of her Children.