Having this information, I regard the fort and all that it contains as already in our power.

We have only to bide our time.

Well may the white man tremble; for ere many days the tiger, guided by the serpent, will spring at his throat." As they talked, their attention was directed to a dark moving mass floating down the river, close under its bank.

Cat-sha soon pronounced it to be a fleet of canoes filled with people, and they watched them with eager curiosity.
It was, indeed, the tribe from which Chitta had fled, moving, under the leadership of their chief, Micco, towards the land of the Alachuas, where food in abundance awaited them.

At the outset of their journey they kept as close as possible under the river-bank, to avoid observation from the white men in Fort Caroline, who, they feared, might oppose their departure if they learned of it.