He furthermore declares, that my old eyes for once were true to me, and that the river lies, hereaway, at about the distance of half a league.

You see the fire has done most of its work in that quarter, and our path is clouded in smoke.

He also agrees that it is needful to wash our trail in water.

Yes, we must put that river atween us and the Sioux eyes, and then, by the favour of the Lord, not forgetting our own industry, we may gain the village of the Loups." "Words will not forward us a foot," said Middleton; "let us move." The old man assented, and the party once more prepared to renew its route.

The Pawnee threw the skin of the buffaloe over his shoulder and led the advance, casting many a stolen glance behind him as he proceeded, in order to fix his gaze on the extraordinary and, to him, unaccountable loveliness of the unconscious Inez.
An hour sufficed to bring the fugitives to the bank of the stream, which was one of the hundred rivers that serve to conduct, through the mighty arteries of the Missouri and Mississippi, the waters of that vast and still uninhabited region to the Ocean.