Transcriber’s Note: A large number of spelling and printing errors havebeen corrected without further note. There are still some discrepanciesin the spelling of personal and place names, and the text for the mostpart doesn’t use speech marks.
Hawk’s Nest, or The Last of the Cahoonshees.
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.
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 andNeversink 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—Trueuntil Death.
CHAPTER XI.—The Second Lesson—Completing his Education—Foundnew Friends—The Mutiny—Death ofSambo.
CHAPTER XII.—Moccasin tracks in the sand—Cahoonsheeat the Climbing Tree—The Battle of the Neversink—Drake’sfearful leap—The virtue of the Grape Vine.
CHAPTER XIII.—The Dead Shot—The Bee Tree—Amy aPrisoner in the hands of the Indians.