CHAPTER X.. Return to Tibeats--Impossibility of Pleasing Him--He Attacks Me

Return to Tibeats--Impossibility of pleasing him--He attacks me with a Hatchet--The Struggle over the Broad Axe--The Temptation to Murder him--Escape across the Plantation--Observations from the Fence--Tibeats approaches, followed by the Hounds--They take my Track--Their loud Yells--They almost overtake me--I reach the Water--The Hounds confused--Moccasin Snakes--Alligators--Night in the "Great Pacoudrie Swamp"--The Sounds of Life--North-West Course--Emerge into the Pine Woods--Slave and his Young Master--Arrival at Ford's--Food and Rest, 131