It is five hours since we landed.
If he started at once the redskins may be all round us now.

It is no question now of our scouting round the French fort, it is one of saving our scalps." "How could it have been done ?" James Walsham asked Nat, in a low tone.
"We were all sleeping within a few yards of the canoes, and some of the men were close to them.

I should have thought we must have heard it." "Heard it!" the hunter said contemptuously; "why, a redskin would make no more noise in cutting them holes and gashes, than you would in cutting a hunk of deer's flesh for your dinner.

He would lie on the ground, and wriggle from one to another like an eel; but I reckon he didn't begin till the camp was still.

The canoes wasn't hauled up till we had sarched the woods, as we thought, and then we was moving about close by them till we lay down.
"I was standing theer on the water's edge not six feet away from that canoe.