They were all in good spirits.

It was trapper philosophy never to anticipate evil,--never to borrow any trouble.

At a rapid pace they marched through a pleasant, luxuriant well watered region, entirely forgetful of past sufferings.
On the evening of the second day, as they were emerging from a forest, there was opened before them a scene of remarkable beauty and grandeur.
Far as the eye could extend towards the south, east and west an undulating prairie spread, with its wilderness of flowers of every gorgeous hue, waving in the evening breeze like the gently heaving ocean.

The sun was just setting in a cloudless sky, illuminating with extraordinary brilliance the enchanting scene.

Here and there in the distance of the boundless plain, a few clumps of trees were scattered, as if nature had arranged them with the special purpose of decorating the Eden-like landscape.