Louis, however, was despatched for water and venison for supper.
The following morning, by break of day, they collected their stores, and conveyed them back to the shanty.

The boys were thus employed, while Catharine watched beside the wounded Indian girl, whom she tended with the greatest care.

She bathed the inflamed arm with water, and bound the cool healing leaves of the _tacamahac_ _[FN: Indian balsam.]_ about it with the last fragment of her apron, she steeped dried berries in water, and gave the cooling drink to quench the fever-thirst that burned in her veins, and glittered in her full soft melancholy dark eyes, which were raised at intervals to the face of her youthful nurse, with a timid hurried glance, as if she longed, yet feared to say, "Who are you that thus tenderly bathe my aching head, and strive to soothe my wounded limbs, and cool my fevered blood?
Are you a creature like myself, or a being sent by the Great Spirit, from the far-off happy land to which my fathers have gone, to smooth my path of pain, and lead me to those blessed fields of sunbeams and flowers where the cruelty of the enemies of my people will no more have power to torment me ?".