He can see, as plain as if the man was still standing on it, the mark of a footprint, and can tell you if it was made by a warrior or a squaw, and how long they have passed by, and whether they were walking fast or slow; while the ordinary white man might go down on his hands and knees, and stare at the ground, and wouldn't be able to see the slightest sign or mark.

For a white man, my eyes are good, but they are not a patch on a redskin's.

I have lived among the woods since I was a boy; but even now, a redskin lad can pick up a trail and follow it when, look as I will, I can't see as a blade of grass has been bruised.

No; these things is partly natur and partly practice.

Practice will do a lot for a white man; but it won't take him up to redskin natur." Not until night had fallen did the party again launch their canoes on the lake.