You may call it the madness of a lad whose body and spirit had been tried to breaking-point.

But, madness or no, it gave me infinite courage, and in that hour I would have dared every savage on earth.
I found some Indians at the edge of the wood, and told one who spoke Powhatan the issue of the fight.

I flung the broken arrow on the ground.
"That is my token," I said.

"You will find the other in the pool below the cascade." Then I strode towards the tents, looking every man I passed squarely in the eyes.

No one spoke, no one hindered me; every face was like a graven image.
I reached the teepee in which I had spent the night, and flung myself down on the rude couch.