up for the statement being true for the reason: "I see'd it written in d' book". So as they have found in "d' book" of Gen. Dodge's part in the return of this boy, it may be accepted by some as a record fact, but not by me and many others I know. The fact remains, however, that Gabriel Martin was killed in the year 1834 and that his son, Matthew, was captured by the Indians and was finally rescued and returned to his home. "And so the world do move on."

Just here it is appropriate, and will be of interest, to recount the brief facts of another hunting adventure that occurred some eight years previous.

In the year 1826 a party of 14 men of the Red River settlements, of which James Elliott ("Eli") Hopkins, brother-in-law of James Clark, was the leader, made a trip west, hunting and trading with Indians. Besides Hopkins, there were in the party, Henry Stout, James Clark, Charles Burkham, Charles Humphries, _____ Clark, _____ Tyler, and _____ Wallace -- eight of the 14. (The Clarksville Times, about 1874, in a brief account of this episode, only mentions Hopkins and Clark and states that the whole number was 20 men.) The facts as stated were given by Henry Stout and are reliable.

It seems that on their return trip homewards, the party was surprised and attacked by a large party of Indians, some of whom had been trading in their camp before. Instead of opening fire, the Indians demanded the surrender of Humphries,