Where were we to get food, with the forests full of our subtle enemies?
To sit still would mean to wait upon death, and the waiting would not be long.
There was the chance, to be sure, that the Indians would be drawn off in the advance towards the east.

But here came in a worse anxiety.

I had come to get news to warn the Tidewater.

That news I had got.

The mighty gathering which Shalah's eyes and mine had beheld in that upland glen was the peril we had foreseen.