His coolness and prudence had saved the party.

They lost not a man nor an animal.
But the Indians still hovered around in such energetic and persevering hostility, that not a trapper could leave the camp without danger of falling into an ambuscade.

The Indians avoided any decisive conflict, but their war-whoops and yells of defiance, like the howlings of wolves, could be heard, by day and by night, in the forests all around them.

Unless the traps were carefully guarded, they were sure to be stolen.

Under these circumstances there was no possibility of trapping with any hope of success.