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So follow me a little to the left, where there is a rise in the
ground, whence we may make our reconnoitrings."
The old man waved his hand with authority, and led the way without
further parlance to the spot he had indicated, followed by the whole
of his alarmed companions. An eye less practised than that of the
trapper might have failed in discovering the gentle elevation to which
he alluded, and which looked on the surface of the meadow like a
growth a little taller than common. When they reached the place,
however, the stinted grass itself announced the absence of that
moisture, which had fed the rank weeds of most of the plain, and
furnished a clue to the evidence by which he had judged of the
formation of the ground hidden beneath. Here a few minutes were lost
in breaking down the tops of the surrounding herbage, which,
notwithstanding the advantage of their position, rose even above the
heads of Middleton and Paul, and in obtaining a look-out that might
command a view of the surrounding sea of fire.


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