The Shadow of the North

The Shadow of the North

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Title: The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost
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Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
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THE SHADOW OF THE NORTH
A STORY OF OLD NEW YORK AND A LOST CAMPAIGN
BY
JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER

1917

FOREWORD
"The Shadow of the North," while an independent story, in itself, is
also the second volume of the Great French and Indian War series

which began with "The Hunters of the Hills." All the important
characters of the first romance reappear in the second.

CHARACTERS IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR SERIES
ROBERT LENNOX A lad of unknown origin TAYOGA A young
Onondaga warrior DAVID WILLET A hunter RAYMOND LOUIS DE
ST. LUC A brilliant French officer AGUSTE DE COURCELLES A
French officer FRANÇOIS DE JUMÓNVILLE A French officer
LOUIS DE GALISONNIÈRE A young French officer JEAN DE
MÉZY A corrupt Frenchman ARMAN GLANDELET A young
Frenchman PIERRE BOUCHER A bully and bravo PHILIBERT
DROUILLAR A French priest THE MARQUIS DUQUESNE
Governor-General of Canada MARQUIS DE VAUDREUIL
Governor-General of Canada FRANÇOIS BIGOT Intendant of Canada
MARQUIS DE MONTCALM French commander-in-chief DE LEVIS
A French general BOURLAMAQUE A French general
BOUGAINVILLE A French general ARMAND DUBOIS A follower
of St. Luc M. DE CHATILLARD An old French Seigneur CHARLES
LANGLADE A French partisan THE DOVE The Indian wife of
Langlade TANDAKORA An Ojibway chief DAGANOWEDA A
young Mohawk chief HENDRICK An old Mohawk chief
BRADDOCK A British general ABERCROMBIE A British general
WOLFE A British general COL. WILLIAM JOHNSON
Anglo-American leader MOLLY BRANT Col. Wm. Johnson's Indian
wife JOSEPH BRANT Young brother of Molly Brant, afterward the
great Mohawk chief, Thayendanegea ROBERT DINWIDDIE
Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia WILLIAM SHIRLEY Governor of
Massachusetts BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Famous American patriot
JAMES COLDEN A young Philadelphia captain WILLIAM WILTON
A young Philadelphia lieutenant HUGH CARSON A young
Philadelphia lieutenant JACOBUS HUYSMAN An Albany burgher
CATERINA Jacobus Huysman's cook ALEXANDER MCLEAN An
Albany schoolmaster BENJAMIN HARDY A New York merchant
JOHNATHAN PILLSBURY Clerk to Benjamin Hardy ADRIAN VAN
ZOON A New York merchant THE SLAVER A nameless rover
ACHILLE GARAY A French spy ALFRED GROSVENOR A young
English officer JAMES CABELL A young Virginian WALTER

STUART A young Virginian BLACK RIFLE A famous "Indian
fighter" ELIHU STRONG A Massachusetts colonel ALAN HERVEY
A New York financier STUART WHYTE Captain of the British sloop,
Hawk JOHN LATHAM Lieutenant of the British sloop, Hawk
EDWARD CHARTERIS A young officer of the Royal Americans
ZEBEDEE CRANE A young scout and forest runner ROBERT
ROGERS Famous Captain of American Rangers

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. THE ONONDAGA II. THE AMBUSH III. THE SIGNAL IV. THE
PERILOUS PATH V. THE RUNNER VI. THE RETURN VII. THE
RED WEAPON VIII. WARAIYAGEH IX. THE WATCHER X. THE
PORT X1. THE PLAY XII. THE SLAVER XIII. THE MEETING XIV.
THE VIRGINIA CAPITAL XV. THE FOREST FIGHT

THE SHADOW OF THE NORTH

CHAPTER I
THE ONONDAGA
Tayoga, of the Clan of the Bear, of the nation Onondaga, of the great
League of the Hodenosaunee, advanced with utmost caution through a
forest, so thick with undergrowth that it hid all objects twenty yards
away. He was not armed with a rifle, but carried instead a heavy bow,
while a quiver full of arrows hung over his shoulder. He wore less
clothing than when he was in the white man's school at Albany, his
arms and shoulders being bare, though not painted.
The young Indian's aspect, too, had changed. The great struggle
between English and French, drawing with it the whole North
American wilderness, had begun and, although the fifty sachems still

sought to hold the Six Nations neutral, many of their bravest warriors
were already serving with the Americans and English, ranging the
forest as scouts and guides and skirmishers, bringing to the campaign
an unrivaled skill, and a faith sealed by the long alliance.
Tayoga had thrown himself into the war heart and soul. Nothing could
diminish by a hair his hostility to the French and the tribes allied with
them. The deeds of Champlain and Frontenac were but of yesterday,
and the nation to which they belonged could never be a friend of the
Hodenosaunee. He trusted the Americans and the English,