I will think it over.

Do not lose heart.

Dan will be back directly with enough food to last you for some days.

If I were you I would take refuge this time in White Oak Swamp.

It is much nearer, and I hear it has already been searched from end to end, so they are not likely to try again; and if you hear them you can, if you are pressed, cross the Chickahominy and make down through the woods.