"At Forty Fort."

"Linna with them?"

"Yes; they are together with the other folks."

"Go dere--tell cross riber--make haste to Del'mware."

This command meant that the little party should hurry to the
eastern side of the Susquehanna, and start for the settlements on
the Upper Delaware. The nearest town was Stroudsburg, sixty miles
distant, and the way led through a dismal forest.

The words of Omas showed, too, that he knew what was coming. Though
the British Colonel Butler might accept the surrender and strive
to give fair treatment to the prisoners, he would find it hard to
restrain the Tories and Indians.

All that could be done was for the fugitives to flee, without
an hour's delay. They were already flocking to the river in the
effort to reach the other side. A good many hid among the grass
and undergrowth on Monacacy Island, where the Tories and Indians
followed, and hunted them out without mercy.

Those who were wise enough to set out in time had a chance
of arriving at the settlements on the Upper Delaware, though much
suffering was sure to follow, since there was no time to prepare
food to take with them.