O-hi-o, signifies bloody.

At the place where we halted, the Indians combed the hair of the young
man, the boy and myself, and then painted our faces and hair red, in the
finest Indian style. We were then conducted into the fort, where we
received a little bread, and were then shut up and left to tarry alone
through the night.

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CHAPTER III.


She is given to two Squaws.--Her Journey down the Ohio.--Passes a Shawanee
town where white men had just been burnt.--Arrives at the Seneca
town.--Her Reception.--She is adopted.--Ceremony of Adoption.--Indian
Custom.--Address.--She receives a new name.--Her Employment.--Retains her
own and learns the Seneca Language.--Situation of the Town, &c.--Indians
go on a Hunting Tour to Sciota and take her with them.--Returns.--She is
taken to Fort Pitt, and then hurried back by her Indian Sisters.--Her
hopes of Liberty destroyed.--Second Tour to Sciota.--Return to Wiishto,
&c.--Arrival of Prisoners.--Priscilla Ramsay.--Her Chain.--Mary marries a
Delaware.--Her Affection for him.--Birth and Death of her first
Child.--Her Sickness and Recovery.--Birth of Thomas Jemison.

The night was spent in gloomy forebodings. What the result of our
captivity would be, it was out of our power to determine or even
imagine.--At times we could almost realize the approach of our masters to