armed
with guns and knives, came upon them, but they sprang into the
woods and escaped, and traveled all night until noon the next day,
when being not flxr from Three Hivcrs, they lay dov/n and slept.
Bat soon each was awakened by an Indian having fast hold of him.
They were committed to prison at Three Rivers. Three sides of
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the pridon wove of stone, the otliei* of vrood. After being in
prison three weeks, tliey began to cut into the v.'ooden wall with a
jack-knife, and in a week liad cut through it sufficiently to escape into
an adjoining room. Having drawn a week's provisions, they cut
up their bed clothes, and lot themselves down, so near the window
of the room below, that they saw the officers there assembled, and
were not morethan a rotl from the sentinel in his box. Tlience
they continued to travel by night, and lay by in the day time.
To supply themselves with food, they took a lamb in one place and
a turkey and other fowls in others. They kept off from the river
to avoid the Indians, who they learned were in pursuit of them,
and had been offered a bounty for their apprehension. They at
length crossed the St. Lawrence and traveled to the River Sorel,
and thence through the wilderness, with incredible hardships and
Buffering, having killed an ox on the way for their sustenance, and
at length arrived at the house of Asa Hemenavay, in Bridport,
which alone had survived the desolations of the war. The next
day they reached the picket fort at Pittsford. From the time of
their escape,