At war with Pontiac : or, The totem of the bear; a tale of redcoat and redskin
Bibliographic record
Abstract
AT WAR WITH PONTIAC being thus discovered, his latest captors washed from "him his Caughnawaga paint, repainted and reclad him in Mohawk fashion, and treated him in all respects like a son of the tribe.Having thus exchanged one form of Indian life for another, Truman Flagg remained among the Iroquois long enough to master their languages, and receive tbe name of Honosagetha, or the man of much talk.Finally, he attracted the attention of Sir William Johnson, and became one of the general's interpreters, as well as a counsellor in Indian affairs.After awhile the forest ranger so fretted against the restraints of civilization and town life, as he termed that of the frontier settlement clustered about Johnson Hall on the lower Mohawk, that when Major Hester, search- ing for an experienced guide and hunter, offered him the position, he gladly accepted it.Since then, save when his services were required as a messenger between Tawtry House and the river settlements, he had been free to come and go as he pleased, provided he kept his employer fairly well provided with all varieties of game in it season.Thus he was able to spend much of his time in roaming the forest, passing from one Indian village to another, keeping himself posted on all subjects of interest to these wilderness com- munities, and ever watching, with eagle eye, over the safety of the Tawtry House inmates.He AT WAR WITH PONTIAC another bowl of water close to his face, but he never gratified 'em by making a move to try and drink it." Finally, they made a circle of dry wood around him and set fire to it.Then I thought it was all up with the poor fellow, and his torment would soon be over.I was just saying this to myself when something swift and still as a shadder brushed past the place where I was hid.I had just time to see that it was a woman, when she cleared the woods like a flash, ran to the stake, never minding the flames more'n ef they'd been a shower of rain, and cut Songa free."He gave a great leap, like a deer, out of the ring of fire that was slowly roasting him, knocked down two or three warriors that stood in his path, and gained the woods, with her close beside him, almost before any one knew what had happened.A score of rifle balls whizzed after them, but they wasn't hit, and they had a clear start of a hun- dred yards afore the crowd took after 'em.Mahng was the only one who could keep 'em in sight, and when they separated at the foot of the lake, he taking up one side, and she the other, Mahng trailed the one he hated most, which was Songa."" How did you happen to see all this ?" inquired the major." They must have passed from view of your hiding-place very quickly.""Oh, I jined in the hunt, too," replied Truman CHAPTER IV ESCAPE OF THE PEISONEES Mbs.Hester, who had been putting her child to sleep, entered the room in time to hear the conclusion of the hunter's story, which she found intensely interesting.Like her husband, she was filled with a desire to see the brave woman who, daring all for the man she loved, had, alone and unaided, saved him from a horrible fate.With him, though, she agreed that it would be cruel to disturb the much-needed and bravely earned rest of their guests.Thus it was decided that they should wait until morning before visiting those whom Fate had so strangely thrust upon their hospitality.In the meantime, were they guests or prisoners, and what was to be done with them?Long and animated was the discussion of these questions, which were finally settled by the major, who said: "They are both.For this night they are our guests.To-morrow morning I shall set a guard over them, for their protection as well as our own.Thus they will become prisoners.If by the time the Ottawa warrior is sufficiently recovered of his wounds to travel, I have received .22.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.052 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".