"Come, there are parties of Indians already straying this way from the Fort yonder, and it behooves us to get in hiding." He made the distance between us and the water with far less difficulty than I had expected, and with a better use of his limbs at each step.

In spite of vigorous protest on his part, I forced him out from the shore until the water entirely covered us, save only our faces; and there we waited for the merciful coming of the night..