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Exchanging looks that were half
rebellious with his brethren, he saw fit to be silent. But instead of
observing the caution recommended by Abiram, they proceeded in a body,
until they again came to a halt within a few yards of the matted cover
of the thicket.
The scene had now, indeed, become wild and striking enough to have
produced a powerful effect on minds better prepared, than those of the
unnurtured family of the squatter, to resist the impressions of so
exciting a spectacle. The heavens were, as usual at the season,
covered with dark, driving clouds, beneath which interminable flocks
of aquatic birds were again on the wing, holding their toilsome and
heavy way towards the distant waters of the south. The wind had risen,
and was once more sweeping over the prairie in gusts, which it was
often vain to oppose; and then again the blasts would seem to mount
into the upper air, as if to sport with the drifting vapour, whirling
and rolling vast masses of the dusky and ragged volumes over each
other, in a terrific and yet grand disorder.


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