By midnight the water was cool and clean.

He landed on a shore of sand and pebbles, stripped to the skin, and gave himself such a scouring as he had never before experienced.

He had worn his old trapping shirt and trousers, and after his bath he changed to the outfit which he had kept clean in his pack.

Then he built a fire and ate his first meal in two days.
The next morning he climbed a tall spruce and surveyed the country about him.

Westward there was a broad low country shut in fifteen or twenty miles away by the foothills.