Your sword you had best leave behind.

It will be of no use to you, and will only be in your way." James had no difficulty in providing himself with a gun, for numbers of weapons, picked up in the woods after the rout of the enemy, were stored in camp.

The rifles had, however, been all taken by the troops, who had exchanged their own firelocks for them.

Captain Rogers went with him among the men, and selected a well-finished rifle of which one of them had possessed himself.

Its owner readily agreed to accept five pounds for it, taking in its stead one of the guns in the store.