That Injun would think he'd been struck by seven different kinds uv lightnin', all at the same time." The fire was built on a hillock that rose above the flood.

It had been kindled with the greatest difficulty, even by such experienced woodsmen as the five, but, once well started, it consumed the damp brush and spluttered and blazed merrily.

Gradually a great bed of coals formed and threw out a temperate, grateful heat.

All were glad enough, after the storm and the cold and the wet, to sit around it and to feel the glow upon their faces.

It warmed the blood.
The hill formed an island in the flood and "The Galleon" and the canoe were tied to trees only thirty or forty feet away.