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Everywhere
along
its
banks
were
the
mouldering
relics
of
dead
trees
,
in
all
the
stages
of
decay
,
from
those
that
groaned
on
their
tottering
trunks
to
such
as
had
recently
been
robbed
of
those
rugged
coats
that
so
mysteriously
contain
their
principle
of
life
.
A
few
long
,
low
,
and
moss-covered
piles
were
scattered
among
them
,
like
the
memorials
of
a
former
and
long-departed
generation
.
All
these
minute
particulars
were
noted
by
the
scout
,
with
a
gravity
and
interest
that
they
probably
had
never
before
attracted
.
He
knew
that
the
Huron
encampment
lay
a
short
half
mile
up
the
brook
;
and
,
with
the
characteristic
anxiety
of
one
who
dreaded
a
hidden
danger
,
he
was
greatly
troubled
at
not
finding
the
smallest
trace
of
the
presence
of
his
enemy
.
Once
or
twice
he
felt
induced
to
give
the
order
for
a
rush
,
and
to
attempt
the
village
by
surprise
;
but
his
experience
quickly
admonished
him
of
the
danger
of
so
useless
an
experiment
.
Then
he
listened
intently
,
and
with
painful
uncertainty
,
for
the
sounds
of
hostility
in
the
quarter
where
Uncas
was
left
;
but
nothing
was
audible
except
the
sighing
of
the
wind
,
that
began
to
sweep
over
the
bosom
of
the
forest
in
gusts
which
threatened
a
tempest
.
At
length
,
yielding
rather
to
his
unusual
impatience
than
taking
counsel
from
his
knowledge
,
he
determined
to
bring
matters
to
an
issue
,
by
unmasking
his
force
,
and
proceeding
cautiously
,
but
steadily
,
up
the
stream
.
The
scout
had
stood
,
while
making
his
observations
,
sheltered
by
a
brake
,
and
his
companions
still
lay
in
the
bed
of
the
ravine
,
through
which
the
smaller
stream
debouched
;
but
on
hearing
his
low
,
though
intelligible
signal
,
the
whole
party
stole
up
the
bank
,
like
so
many
dark
spectres
,
and
silently
arranged
themselves
around
him
.
Pointing
in
the
direction
he
wished
to
proceed
,
Hawkeye
advanced
,
the
band
breaking
off
in
single
files
,
and
following
so
accurately
in
his
footsteps
,
as
if
to
leave
it
,
if
we
except
Heyward
and
David
,
the
trail
of
but
a
single
man
.
The
party
was
,
however
,
scarcely
uncovered
before
a
volley
from
a
dozen
rifles
was
heard
in
their
rear
;
and
a
Delaware
leaping
high
into
the
air
,
like
a
wounded
deer
,
fell
at
his
whole
length
,
perfectly
dead
.
"
Ah
!
I
feared
some
deviltry
like
this
!
"
exclaimed
the
scout
,
in
English
;
adding
,
with
the
quickness
of
thought
,
in
his
adopted
tongue
,
"
To
cover
,
men
,
and
charge
!
"
The
band
dispersed
at
the
word
,
and
before
Heyward
had
well
recovered
from
his
surprise
,
he
found
himself
standing
alone
with
David
.
Luckily
,
the
Hurons
had
already
fallen
back
,
and
he
was
safe
from
their
fire
.
But
this
state
of
things
was
evidently
to
be
of
short
continuance
;
for
the
scout
set
the
example
of
pressing
on
their
retreat
,
by
discharging
his
rifle
,
and
darting
from
tree
to
tree
,
as
his
enemy
slowly
yielded
ground
.
It
would
seem
that
the
assault
had
been
made
by
a
very
small
party
of
the
Hurons
,
which
,
however
,
continued
to
increase
in
numbers
,
as
it
retired
on
its
friends
,
until
the
return
fire
was
very
nearly
,
if
not
quite
,
equal
to
that
maintained
by
the
advancing
Delawares
.
Heyward
threw
himself
among
the
combatants
,
and
imitating
the
necessary
caution
of
his
companions
,
he
made
quick
discharges
with
his
own
rifle
.
The
contest
now
grew
warm
and
stationary
.
Few
were
injured
,
as
both
parties
kept
their
bodies
as
much
protected
as
possible
by
the
trees
;
never
,
indeed
,
exposing
any
part
of
their
persons
except
in
the
act
of
taking
aim
.
But
the
chances
were
gradually
growing
unfavorable
to
Hawkeye
and
his
band
.
The
quick-sighted
scout
perceived
his
danger
,
without
knowing
how
to
remedy
it
.
He
saw
it
was
more
dangerous
to
retreat
than
to
maintain
his
ground
;
while
he
found
his
enemy
throwing
out
men
on
his
flank
,
which
rendered
the
task
of
keeping
themselves
covered
so
very
difficult
to
the
Delawares
,
as
nearly
to
silence
their
fire
.
At
this
embarrassing
moment
,
when
they
began
to
think
the
whole
of
the
hostile
tribe
was
gradually
encircling
them
,
they
heard
the
yell
of
combatants
,
and
the
rattling
of
arms
,
echoing
under
the
arches
of
the
wood
,
at
the
place
where
Uncas
was
posted
;
a
bottom
which
,
in
a
manner
,
lay
beneath
the
ground
on
which
Hawkeye
and
his
party
were
contending
.
The
effects
of
this
attack
were
instantaneous
,
and
to
the
scout
and
his
friends
greatly
relieving
.
It
would
seem
that
,
while
his
own
surprise
had
been
anticipated
,
and
had
consequently
failed
,
the
enemy
,
in
their
turn
,
having
been
deceived
in
its
object
and
in
his
numbers
,
had
left
too
small
a
force
to
resist
the
impetuous
onset
of
the
young
Mohican
.
This
fact
was
doubly
apparent
,
by
the
rapid
manner
in
which
the
battle
in
the
forest
rolled
upwards
towards
the
village
,
and
by
an
instant
falling
off
in
the
number
of
their
assailants
,
who
rushed
to
assist
in
maintaining
the
front
,
and
,
as
it
now
proved
to
be
,
the
principal
point
of
defence
.
Animating
his
followers
by
his
voice
,
and
his
own
example
,
Hawkeye
then
gave
the
word
to
bear
down
upon
their
foes
.
The
charge
,
in
that
rude
species
of
warfare
,
consisted
merely
in
pushing
from
cover
to
cover
,
nigher
to
the
enemy
;
and
in
this
manœuvre
he
was
instantly
and
successfully
obeyed
.
The
Hurons
were
compelled
to
withdraw
,
and
the
scene
of
the
contest
rapidly
changed
from
the
more
open
ground
on
which
it
had
commenced
,
to
a
spot
where
the
assailed
found
a
thicket
to
rest
upon
.
Here
the
struggle
was
protracted
,
arduous
,
and
seemingly
of
doubtful
issue
;
the
Delawares
,
though
none
of
them
fell
,
beginning
to
bleed
freely
,
in
consequence
of
the
disadvantage
at
which
they
were
held
.
