Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber’s Note: A large number of spelling and printing errors have been corrected without further note. There are still some discrepancies in the spelling of personal and place names, and the text for the most part doesn’t use speech marks. Hawk’s Nest, or The Last of the Cahoonshees. [Illustration: James Martin Allerton.] Hawk’s Nest, OR The Last of the Cahoonshees. A Tale of the Delaware Valley and Historical Romance of 1690. BY James M. Allerton. [Illustration] THE GAZETTE BOOK & JOB PRINT, Port Jervis, N. Y. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1892, by JAMES M. ALLERTON, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. 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.