Several Indian children were playing around, and the man and woman whom they had before seen were still beating their roots.

Another Indian woman was also there seen.

These peaceful families had no conception of the disaster which had befallen their companions who were hunting in the woods.

Even if they had heard the report of the rifles, they could only have supposed that it was from the guns of the hunters firing at game.
The evening twilight was fading away.

The whole party was concealed in a dense canebrake which fringed the stream.