His admirable training and his splendidly nourished body--cared for, as in those days only was the body cared for--promised much, though against so huge a champion.

Then, too, Iberville in his boyhood had wrestled with Indians and had learned their tricks.

Added to this were methods learned abroad, which might prove useful now.

Yet any one looking at the two would have begged the younger man to withdraw.
Never was battle shorter.

Iberville, too proud to give his enemy one moment of athletic trifling, ran in on him.