Doctor Livesey was by this time across thestockade and pretty near the cook, and I could hear the alteration in his voice as he said: "Not Jim?
The gigs had leaned to their right, but Hunter and I pulled straight in, in the direction of the stockade upon the chart.
Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins--The Garrison in the Stockade 135 XX.
Several bullets struck the log-house, but not one entered; and, as the smoke cleared away and vanished, the stockade and the woods around it looked as quiet and empty as before.
The slopes of the knoll and all the inside of the stockade had been cleared of timber to build the house, and we could see by the stumps what a fine and lofty grove had been destroyed.
About halfway down the slope to the stockade they were collected in a group; one held the light; another was on his knees in their midst, and I saw the blade of an open knife shine in his hand with varying colors, in the moon and torchlight.
The squire and Gray were busy helping the captain with his bandages; the coast was clear; I made a bolt for it over the stockade and into the thickest of the trees, and before my absence was observed I was out of cry of my companions.
Forty paces farther we came to the edge of the wood and saw the stockade in front of us.
I had nothing nearer my fancy than to get home to the stockade and boast of my achievements.
A company of troops in a little stockade fort protected them from the Indians.
To the southward, at Andersonville, was the great Stockade Prison of the Civil War, where large numbers of captured Union soldiers were confined, being so badly treated that thirteen thousand of them died.
In the early part of the winter game was plentiful; it was a perfect hunter's paradise, it being necessary only to sit in the stockade gate and shoot deer coming down to water.
We frequently had eight or ten carcasses swung to our corner-poles, and did not deign to eat other than the choice pieces, throwing the remainder over the stockade walls to attract wolves at night.
To the astonishment of the boys, I walked into the stockade with a piece of bacon swinging in one hand and a sack of flour on my back.
The spear went through the ring itself without harming the hand of the holder, and coming a little slantwise, twitched it away from him and stuck in the timber of the stockade whence the gatepost had been riven.
At this time my father sent a few of the men to the back of the house, that they might try at least to keep off the foe from climbing the stockade and so falling on them in the rear.
I thought that Evan had forgotten to gag me, but before we went to the gate of the stockade he came and did it well.
Stuf had shut the stockade gates, which were strong enough, and had reared a ladder against the timbers that he might look over.
And for fear, no doubt, of the British, they had set a strong stockade all round the place in a half circle from the stream to the harbour.
This was a quadrangle, entered only by a funnel-shaped passage, surrounded by a strong outer wall of brick and by an inner stockade of stout teak posts set at intervals, with a space between the stockade and the wall.
I shoved Elerson inside and followed, pushing into a mob of scared militia and panic-stricken citizens toward a huge buckskinned figure at a stockade loophole on the left.
She led the way, without giving him a chance to demur, to the gate to the stockade and turned him over to the gatekeeper.
The outer range of piles around crannogs rose considerably above the water, and thus formed a stockade or breastwork for repelling an attack from enemies.
Within the stockade were observed two small mounds, one at the north, the other at the south.
Within the area enclosed stood the hut or huts in which the families lived; the stockade served equally for shelter and defence, fulfilling the same purpose as did the circumvallation of the rath or doon on terra firma.
They found it to be a stockade surrounded by large rocks.
Here La Salle built a stockade and left some of his men, of whose fate nothing was afterward heard.
When he reached the place, he saw that they had reared a kind of stockade and were trying to build a vessel out of the timbers of their wrecked ship.
This rouses us from our reverie, and we follow the merry load as they jog along the country road from Fort Orange to the nearest gate in the stockade (about where the street now called Hudson Avenue crosses Handelaer Street, or Broadway).
We must not leave the neighborhood of Fort Orange and Beverwyck until we have been to a trading-house just outside of the stockade (Pemberton's was used for such a purpose at one time, and also the Glenn House).
Behind this was a large enclosure or yard surrounded by a high stockade wall for defence, and containing several buildings, mostly of wood and somewhat out of repair.
Foster immediately retaliated by requesting that 55 Confederate Officers of equal rank be sent from the prison at Fort Delaware to be placed in a stockade on Morris Island under the guns of Fort Sumter.
Six hundred additional Confederate officers were sent down from Fort Delaware and this time they were placed in the stockade on Morris Island under the guns of Fort Sumter.
Beyond locking them all into that stockade at night, there was no great precaution taken.
Being mounted, he would, but for an unexpected delay, have reached the stockadeahead of Nuttall, in which case several unhappy events might have been averted.
He entered the stockade in their wake, and as they broke their ranks to seek their various respective huts, he beheld Colonel Bishop in talk with Kent, the overseer.
With this they were to surmount the stockade and gain the open.
Then he turned and strode off towards the stockade a half-mile away, and a vision of her face went with him, tinted with a rising blush and a sudden unusual shyness.
They came out upon the green plateau and headed for the stockade and the overseer's white house.
He flung out of the stockade again, hesitated a moment as to which direction he should take, and finally decided to go any way but the way that Kent had gone.
As a result Blood was betimes that evening in the spacious stockade that enclosed the huts of the slaves together with the big white house of the overseer, and he found an opportunity of a few words with Pitt, unobserved by the others.
He would have known that for a man to build up a doctrine of philosophy around himself, hoping that the devil will keep on the other side of the paling, is as ridiculous as it is to raise a stockade of roses against a tiger.
He thought of the stockade of roses, not to keep out the beast but to keep love in.
It would certainly be difficult to storm that gate, but these bushmen who are building the stockade will have the sense to realize it and tell their friends.
Then there was silence for a space, while the light grew clearer until the residency beyond the stockade grew into shape.
They were strengthening the fort stockade and digging a ditch, and incidentally riveting the shackles of the white man's bondage more firmly on their limbs.
How long the tension lasted he did not know, but at length the ringing of the rifles died away again, and as a little puff of chilly breeze rolled the haze aside it became evident that the space before the stockade was once more empty.
I came in from the east by the rear of the stockade where they are mending it," he said.
Ormsgill, who felt his mouth grow parched and dry, fancied he could see the stockade a trifle more plainly, and the forest seemed to be growing blacker, though the mist was a little thicker than it had been.
He saw them plunge into a crawling trail of low lying mist, that seemed torn apart suddenly when once more the face of the stockade was streaked with little spurts of flame.
He was alone, and walked quietly towards the stockade with his wide hat in his hand, and a figure in white uniform appeared in the notch where the palisades had been cut down for the quick-firing gun.
The stockade rose right over him, and he went headlong at the gap in it from which there protruded the muzzle of the gun.
He could see the stockade clearly, and the edge of the forest now cut sharply against the sky.
The bushmen would come by the rear of the stockade which we leave lower, and when they do I think we shall also be ready for them there.
The stockade was at length carried, and, after it, the house, which was instantly given to the flames.
On that same night the Indians, led by Wacora, stormed the stockade upon the hill.
A meeting of the settlers within the stockade was at once called.
The Indians, eager to revenge Oluski's death, wore impatient of the restraint Wacora would have imposed upon them, and at a council convened for that purpose, they determined to attack the stockade upon the hill.
The men lay about the stockadewith their rusty guns beside them, the negro, Bad Dollar, filing his matchet, as he did continually.
I willstockade a camp in the hills yonder and wait for you.
It happened that when time had passed, and we knew our officer, as he knew us, we went up with him to chastise certain thieves, and came upon a stockade across the path, with many men who carried guns behind it.
They had some trouble in inducing their followers to quit the promised shelter, but both felt easier when they had repassed the stockade gate.
Then she shuddered once more, recollecting what she had read of the scenes within an African stockade when the rifles lay cold in the undergrowth, and the smoke of the flintlocks had melted away.
Then they walked silently together as far as the stockade gate, where Maxwell turned and held out his hand.
A ravine cut the camp off from the forest in the rear, and beyond the front stockade the ground fell steeply to the river.
The night was far spent when we crept softly about the stockade of that heathen village, but men drunk with palm wine made merry within, doubtless boasting how they had slain our leader.
Well, we nursed each other through fevers, and twice stood behind a stockade with the rifle barrels burning our hands; but we made money, and I think the Leopards grew afraid of us because we lived in spite of them.
We'd better follow my plan first, and make the stockade hereafter.
We have plenty of it already cut in the shape of the tree tops we've trimmed off in getting our stockade poles.
We must build a sort of platform all around inside the stockade, about six feet from the ground; it needn't be any thing more than a row of poles laid against the stockade and supported by some forked stakes.
If there were no danger of that we needn't have thought of a stockade at all.
The stockade itself was uninjured, and thus far the boat also was safe, but the vat of tar was afire, and the bush hut in which the boys slept had either caught from the blazing tar or been set on fire by the negro boy.
They were many days on the road, and when they got to the first Cherokee town they found there was a stockade around it so that no enemy could enter.
Although numbers of families had collected inside the stockade for safety, there were less than twenty able-bodied men among them.
The date shows that she died while the Removal was in progress, possibly while waiting in the stockade camp.
Under Scott's orders the troops were disposed at various points throughout the Cherokee country, where stockade forts were erected for gathering in and holding the Indians preparatory to removal (43).
On the upper Catawba they killed many people, but the whites took refuge in the stockade stations, where they defended themselves until General Rutherford (16) came to their relief.
Then he looked toward the frowning stockade so near by, above which the heads of the curious guards could be seen, as also their guns.
The guards behind the stockade are afraid to show themselves after doing what they did; and the strikers are just as much averse to going near the works, with those men waiting to pour in another awful volley at sight of them.
This harsh order came from the barricade, and at the same time a number of heads appeared in view over the top of the heavy planks forming the stockade around the buildings of the cement works.
He looked from time to time in deadly fear toward the stockade from whence that murderous fire had leaped out, under which he had fallen.
There were a few loud jeering remarks from the stockade as the guards discovered that, after all, the one man considered dead had come to life in a wonderfully miraculous fashion, after the scout had done something or other.
The place had no fortifications; it was held by a few hundred green recruits; and the only obstacle to a hostile ascent of the Sandusky River was a little stockade near its mouth, called Fort Stephenson.
A square stockade enclosed an acre of ground around his house and to this refuge hastened several hundred pioneers and their families, with their negro slaves, and a few officers and soldiers.
But Croghan argued the point so eloquently that the stockade was restored to him next day and he won his chance to do or die.
The British howitzers peppered thestockade as soon as the refusal was delivered, but they failed to shake the spirit of the dauntless hundred and sixty American defenders.
His first thought was to evacuate the stockade of Fort Stephenson and to concentrate his force, although this would leave the Sandusky River open for a British advance from the shore of Lake Erie.
Then the rajah would be punished, if they could catch him, and his stockade and village be burned.
The Indians were now at the ditch, and one had advanced as far as the stockade itself.
A weak spot in the stockade was strengthened and the cannon of the fort were put in the best possible condition.
He was right; and soon they could see the tall stockade quite plainly.
When he returned inside of the stockade he was immediately surrounded.
Without delay the old scout climbed the stockade and scrambled over the ditch.
The drums rolled, the fifers struck up a lively air, and the three companies, headed by a major, marched around the stockade several times and then to the parade-ground in front of the gates.
Here and there they saw the stockade take fire, and then saw a blaze on the stable within the fort yard.
The sunny spots within the stockade were suffocating, and the boys were glad enough to stay within the cool walls of the stone fort.
The two boards were placed at opposite ends of the stockade, and, while some of the enemy began to mount them, others came rushing on with a tree trunk, which they used as a battering-ram against the stockade gate.
But at last they came within sight of the stockade and the big flag floating so proudly to the breeze, and then several came rushing out to meet them, and their hard-ships, for the time being, came to an end.
The soldiers within the stockade fired upon the advancing foe as best they could.
Yet by the time red men and desperadoes were within reach of the stockade only three of the foe had fallen.
Promptly at four o'clock Captain Moore appeared at the southwest corner of the stockade with a red shirt in one hand and a blue shirt in the other.
But the stockade was greatly damaged, and by the time the last spark was out it was seen that it had sustained three openings each eight to twelve feet long.
Catching in its jaws the strip of flesh which the man dangled in front of the doorway, the brute dashed across the stockade and crouched against the wall, tearing at the meat.
A compact stockade of great boulders enclosed the front of the dwelling.
In the stockade he did a strange and terrible thing.
He buckled on the revolver-belt, took whip and staff from the fireside, and drove his dog-team out of the stockadeonto the prairie of snow, closing the gate on the howling chorus left behind.
He tore the gate of the stockade from its hinges and cast it into the ruins.
As Polaris entered the stockade the clamor was redoubled.
The bluejackets and soldiers immediately afterwards landed, and the captain, with his companions, again giving forth hearty cheers, rushed towards the stockade in which the gun was posted.
They are eight feet high, and four feet thick; one side of each stockade looking towards the river, and the other down the reach.
At length, far in the distance, on the summit of a bold point projecting into the river, the stockade they might have to attack came into sight.
