They pounced upon the floating merchandise with the keenness of regular wreckers.

A bale of goods which landed upon one of the islands was immediately ripped open, one half of its contents divided among the captors, and the other half secreted in a lonely hut in a deep ravine.

Mr.Robert Stuart, however, set out in a canoe with five men and an interpreter, ferreted out the wreckers in their retreat, and succeeded in wrestling from them their booty.
Similar precautions to those already mentioned, and to a still greater extent, were observed in passing the Long Narrows, and the falls, where they would be exposed to the depredations of the chivalry of Wish-ram, and its freebooting neighborhood.

In fact, they had scarcely set their first watch one night, when an alarm of "Indians!" was given.

"To arms" was the cry, and every man was at his post in an instant.