Consequently, we did not spare their legs; the spirited things, plump as they were, having grazed two months without any labour, carried us fast enough.

When we halted on the bank of a small river, to water them and let them breathe, they did not appear much tired, although we had had a run of twenty-eight miles.
At about eleven o'clock we reached the confines of the rocky ground; here we rested for three hours, and took a meal, of which we were very much in want, having tasted nothing but berries and plums since our departure from the schooner, for we had been so much engrossed by the digging of the cachette that we had forgotten to take with us any kind of provision.
Our flight, or, to say better, our journey, passed without anything remarkable.

We arrived, as we had expected, a day and a half before the Umbiquas: and, of course, were prepared for them.

The squaws, children, and valuables were already in the boat-house with plenty of water, in case the enemy should attempt to fire it.

The presence of a hostile war-party had been singularly discovered two days before; three children having gone to a little bay at a short distance from the post, to catch some young seals, discovered four canoes secured at the foot of a rock, while, a little farther, two young men were seated near a fire cooking comfortably one of the seals they had taken.