Excerpt from History of the Captivity and Providential Release Therefrom of Mrs. Caroline, Wife of the Late Mr. Richard Harris, of Franklin Co;, State of N. York: Who, With Mrs. Clarissa Plummer, Wife of Mr. James Plummer, Were, in the Spring of 1835, (With Their Unfortunate Husbands, ) Taken Prisoners by the Camanche Tribe of Indians

My husband was, on peril of his life, forbidden to hold any conversation with me, and the same was enjoined upon Mrs. Plummer; and to prevent which, they were both compelled to travel, mostly on foot, in front of the main body of sava ges. Mrs. P. And myself were compelled to travel about an equaldistance in the rear. Having proceeded in this man ner for the space of three days (encamping nights within tem porary huts, )-the strength of my poor suffering babe began to fail; and when attempting to hush its pitiful moans, and to revive it by pressing it close to my bosom, it was torn from my arms by a savage brute, and thrown into a bunch of prickly pears! - and which cruel treatment was repeated until it became almost lifeless, when a rope was tied around its body, by which it was attached to the horn of the saddle on which I was riding (an awful spectacle, indeed, for a poor disconsolate mother to behold!) and where it remained until in the very agonies of death, when it was taken therefrom by the same unfeeling rufl'ian, and thrown on a prairie, and there left to' be devoured by the vultures! Alas! Isthere a moth er, whose heart is not callous to every tender feeling, that cannot have, at least, some faint conception of what my feelings must have been at that moment!

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