Spring leaped suddenly into full bloom, and the woods began to swarm with game.

It was the most plentiful season that the oldest man could recall, there was no hunter so lazy and so dull that he could not find the buffalo and the deer.
Then the band, with the spirit of irresponsible wandering upon it, took down its lodges and traveled slowly into the north farther and farther from the little settlement away down in Kentucky.

There was peace among the tribes and they could go as they chose.

They came at last to the shores of a mighty lake, Superior, and here when Henry looked out upon an expanse of water, as limitless to the eyes as the sea, he felt the same thrill of awe that had passed through his veins when the Great Plains lay outspread before him.

As it was now midsummer and the forests crackled in the heat they lingered long by the deep cool waters of the lake.