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When the shore was gained, the young
Indian undid his work, threw the skin over his shoulder, placed the
sticks under his arm, and returned, without speaking, to transfer the
remainder of the party, in a similar manner, to what was very justly
considered the safer side of the river.
"Now, friend Doctor," said the old man, when he saw the Indian
plunging into the river a second time, "do I know there is faith in
yonder Red-skin. He is a good-looking, ay, and an honest-looking
youth, but the winds of Heaven are not more deceitful than these
savages, when the devil has fairly beset them. Had the Pawnee been a
Teton, or one of them heartless Mingoes, that used to be prowling
through the woods of York, a time back, that is, some sixty years
agone, we should have seen his back and not his face turned towards
us. My heart had its misgivings when I saw the lad choose the better
horse, for it would be as easy to leave us with that beast, as it
would for a nimble pigeon to part company from a flock of noisy and
heavy winged crows.


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