CHAPTER XIV.
_Crusoe's return, and his private adventures among the Indians--Dick at a very low ebb--Crusoe saves him_.
The means by which Crusoe managed to escape from his two-legged captors, and rejoin his master, require separate and special notice.
In the struggle with the fallen horse and Indian, which Dick had seen begun but not concluded, he was almost crushed to death; and the instant the Indian gained his feet, he sent an arrow at his head with savage violence.

Crusoe, however, had been so well used to dodging the blunt-headed arrows that were wont to be shot at him by the boys of the Mustang Valley, that he was quite prepared, and eluded the shaft by an active bound.

Moreover, he uttered one of his own peculiar roars, flew at the Indian's throat, and dragged him down.

At the same moment the other Indians came up, and one of them turned aside to the rescue.

This man happened to have an old gun, of the cheap sort at that time exchanged for peltries by the fur-traders.