"Nobody can shelter himself against the wall from the fire of defenders up here." These very strong buildings they called their blockhouses, and after they finished them they dug a well in the corner of the inclosed ground, striking water at a depth of twenty feet.

Then their main labors were finished, and each family now began to furnish its house as it would or could.
It was not all work for Henry while this was going on, and some of the labor itself was just as good as play.

He was allowed to go considerable distances with Ross, and these journeys were full of novelty.

He was a boy who came to places which no white boy had ever seen before.

It was hard for him to realize that it was all so new.