Some of the women carried in their arms children too small to walk.

Yet they were more hopeful now when they saw that the five were friends.

These lithe, active frontiersmen, so quick, so skillful, and so helpful, raised their courage.

Yet it was a most doleful flight.

Most of these women had been made widows the day before, some of them had been made widows and childless at the same time, and wondered why they should seek to live longer.