10/22 Strong men have trembled at feeling themselves thus alone in the wilderness; and well might they, for they knew that the consequence has often been _death_. The shipwrecked mariner in his open boat is scarcely worse off than the lost traveller upon the prairie-sea; and many, under the circumstances, have gone mad! Fancy then the feelings of the boy Basil. He did not lose presence of mind. He reined in his horse, and surveyed the prairie around him with an intelligent eye. |