The answer came, and he drew his friends to him with a low whistling.

As they came crouching, he pointed upriver.
"Three canoes put out.

Two are hidden behind that outside island, and there is the other creeping round the end." "Oh ay," said Mr.Hume.

"If they're after us, they will have placed outlooks in the tallest trees;" and with his glass he swept the forest.
"They could not see us at that distance." "But they could see our boat as soon as we appeared in open water.
We'll stay where we are." "Then we shall need our guns." "It is not our guns that will save us, my lad, but strategy.

Any one could fire off a rifle, but it takes nerve to keep cool in readiness to do the right thing at the right time." "But," said Compton, obstinately, "we don't want to be caught undefended." "Leave this matter with me," said the hunter, sternly.