I should want you to act both as scouts and instructors, to teach the men, as you have taught me, something of woodcraft, how to find their way in a forest, and how to fight the Indians in their own way, and to be up to Indian devices.

You will be guides on the line of march, will warn me of danger, and suggest the best plan of meeting it.
You will, in fact, be scouts attached to the corps, only nominally you will be members of it.

I know your ways, and should not exact any observance of discipline, more than that which you have with Rogers, and should treat you in the light of non-commissioned officers." "Well, and what do you say, Jonathan ?" Nat said, turning to his tall companion.

"You and I have both taken a fancy to the captain here, and though he has picked up a lot for a young 'un, and will in time make a first-rate hand in the woods, I guess he won't make much hand of it, yet, if he hadn't got someone as knows the woods by his side.

We have had a spell of hard work of it with Rogers lately, and I don't mind if I have a change, for a bit, with the redcoats." "I will go, of course," Jonathan said briefly.
"Very well, then, that's settled, captain," Nat said.