Another ten miles was passed, and then the canoes were steered in to the shore.
The guns, blankets, and bundles were lifted out; the canoes raised on the shoulders of the men, and carried a couple of hundred yards among the trees; then, with scarcely a word spoken, each man rolled himself in his blanket and lay down to sleep, four being sent out as scouts in various directions.

Soon after daybreak, all were on foot again, although it had been arranged that no move should be made till night set in.

No fires were lighted, for they had brought with them a supply of biscuit and dry deers' flesh sufficient for a week.
"How did you get on yesterday ?" Captain Rogers asked, as he came up to the spot where James had just risen to his feet.
"First rate, captain!" Nat answered for him.

"I hardly believed that a young fellow could have handled a paddle so well, at the first attempt.
He rowed all the way, except just the narrows, and though I don't say as he was noiseless, he did wonderfully well, and we came along with the rest as easy as may be." "I thought I heard a little splash, now and then," the captain said, smiling; "but it was very slight, and could do no harm where the lake is two or three miles wide, as it is here.

But you will have to lay in your paddle when we get near the other end, for the sides narrow in there, and the redskins would hear a fish jump, half a mile away." During the day the men passed their time in sleep, in mending their clothes, or in talking quietly together.