Then they resumed their march in a perpetual circle about the camp.
Some women did not sleep at all that night.

It is not easy to conceive what the frontier women of America endured so many thousands of times.
They had seen their husbands, brothers, and sons killed in the battle, and they knew that the worst of torture had been practiced in the Indian camp.

Many of them really did not want to live any longer.

They merely struggled automatically for life.

The darkness settled down thicker and thicker; the blackness in the forest was intense, and they could see the faces of one another only at a little distance.