For them the happy hunting-grounds was now.

They knew it; but as their father's sons they acquitted themselves.

Even then they had time to gather in a phalanx [dense formation] that would have been hard to break had they risen quickly, but this they were forbidden to do by the traditions of their race.

It is written that the noble savage must never express surprise in the presence of the white.

Thus terrible as the sudden appearance of the pirates must have been to them, they remained stationary for a moment, not a muscle moving; as if the foe had come by invitation.