Tell them the hunter goes north." Through the council of chiefs ran a low mutter, as of gathering thunder.
True to his word, the hunter turned his back on them.

As he brushed by, his eye caught a gaunt savage slipping from the boat.

At the hunter's stern call, the Indian leaped ashore, and started to run.

He had stolen a parcel, and would have succeeded in eluding its owner but for an unforeseen obstacle, as striking as it was unexpected.
A white man of colossal stature had stepped in the thief's passage, and laid two great hands on him.

Instantly the parcel flew from the Indian, and he spun in the air to fall into the river with a sounding splash.
Yells signaled the surprise and alarm caused by this unexpected incident.