We shall leave him to his vacillating and confused expedients, in order to pass to the description of certain other personages in the drama.
There was still another corner of the picture that was occupied.

On a little bank, at the extreme right of the encampment, lay the forms of Middleton and Paul.

Their limbs were painfully bound with thongs, cut from the skin of a bison, while, by a sort of refinement in cruelty, they were so placed, that each could see a reflection of his own misery in the case of his neighbour.

Within a dozen yards of them a post was set firmly in the ground, and against it was bound the light and Apollo-like person of Hard-Heart.

Between the two stood the trapper, deprived of his rifle, his pouch and his horn, but otherwise left in a sort of contemptuous liberty.