He says there is no reason why we should offer a scalp without price to Tandakora, the Ojibway." "And I abide by what I said," laughed Colonel Johnson, who heard.
"You're in conditions new to you, Grosvenor, though you've had one tragic and dreadful proof of what the Indians can do, but there's great stuff in you and I'm not willing to see it thrown away before it's developed.

Don't be afraid the French and Indians won't give you all the fighting you want, though I haven't the slightest doubt you'll stand up to it like a man." "Thank you, sir," said Grosvenor, modestly.
The lad, Peter, was also eager to go, and he was soothed only by the promise of Mynheer Jacobus Huysman that he might join the army on the march to Lake George.
Then the leaders gave the word and the hundred foresters, fifty white and fifty red, plunged into the great northern wilderness which stretched through New York into Canada, one of the most beautiful regions on earth, and at that particular time the most dangerous, swarming with ruthless Indians and daring French partisans.
It was remarkable how soon they reached the wilds after leaving Albany.
The Dutch had been along the Hudson for more than a century, and the English had come too, but all of them had clung mostly to the river.
Powerful and warlike tribes roamed the great northern forests, and the French colonies in the north and the English colonies in the south had a healthy respect for the fighting powers of one another.

The doubtful ground between was wide and difficult, and anyone who ventured into it now had peril always beside him.
The forest received the hundred, the white and the red, and hid them at once in its depths.

It was mid-summer, but there was yet no brown on the leaves.

A vast green canopy overhung the whole earth, and in every valley flowed brooks and rivers of clean water coming down from the firm hills.