And she was startled.

It was not the old camp of a score or more of lodges clustering and huddling together in the open as though for company, but a mighty camp.

It began at the very forest, and flowed in and out among the scattered tree-clumps on the flat, and spilled over and down to the river bank where the long canoes were lined up ten and twelve deep.

It was a gathering of the tribes, like unto none in all the past, and a thousand miles of coast made up the tally.

They were all strange Indians, with wives and chattels and dogs.