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The predominant hues were a black and a bright vermilion. With these,
however, the several tints of white, yellow, and crimson, were
strangely and wildly blended. Had this been all, it would have been
difficult to have pronounced that the object was possessed of life,
for it lay motionless as any stone; but a pair of dark, glaring, and
moving eyeballs which watched with jealousy the smallest movement of
the trapper and his companion, sufficiently established the important
fact of its possessing vitality.
"Your reptile is a scouter, or I'm no judge of Indian paints and
Indian deviltries!" muttered the old man, dropping the butt of his
weapon to the ground, and gazing with a steady eye at the frightful
object, as he leaned on its barrel, in an attitude of great composure.
"He wants to face us out of sight and reason, and make us think the
head of a red-skin is a stone covered with the autumn leaf; or he has
some other devilish artifice in his mind!"
"Is the animal human?" demanded the Doctor, "of the genus homo? I had
fancied it a non-descript.


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