If they had nothing over them the storm would take the fighting spirit for the time out of savages, even wild for scalps.

I'm mighty glad we have the canoe.

It holds the food we need for a siege, and if the chance for escape comes it will bear us away.

I think, Tayoga, I can see a figure stirring among the boulders on the other side farther up." "I see two," said the Onondaga, "and doubtless there are others whom we cannot see.

Keep close, my friends, I think they are going to fire." A dozen rifles were discharged from a point about a hundred yards away, the exploding powder making red dots in the darkness, the bullets rattling on the stone cliff or sending up little spurts of water from the river.