He was of middle years, built very powerfully and with muscles and sinews developed to an amazing degree.

His face, in childhood quite fair, had been burned almost as brown as that of an Indian by long exposure.

He was clothed wholly in tanned deerskin adorned with many little colored beads.

A hatchet and knife were in the broad belt at his waist, and a long rifle lay at his feet.
His face was fine and open and he would have been noticed anywhere.

But the eyes of the curious would surely have rested first upon the two youths with him.
One was back of the canoe's center on the right side and the other was forward on the left.