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The
hunter
,
like
the
savage
whose
place
he
filled
,
seemed
to
select
among
the
blind
signs
of
their
wild
route
,
with
a
species
of
instinct
,
seldom
abating
his
speed
,
and
never
pausing
to
deliberate
.
A
rapid
and
oblique
glance
at
the
moss
on
the
trees
,
with
an
occasional
upward
gaze
towards
the
setting
sun
,
or
a
steady
but
passing
look
at
the
direction
of
the
numerous
water-courses
,
through
which
he
waded
,
were
sufficient
to
determine
his
path
,
and
remove
his
greatest
difficulties
.
In
the
meantime
,
the
forest
began
to
change
its
hues
,
losing
that
lively
green
which
had
embellished
its
arches
,
in
the
graver
light
which
is
the
usual
precursor
of
the
close
of
day
.
While
the
eyes
of
the
sisters
were
endeavoring
to
catch
glimpses
through
the
trees
,
of
the
flood
of
golden
glory
which
formed
a
glittering
halo
around
the
sun
,
tinging
here
and
there
with
ruby
streaks
,
or
bordering
with
narrow
edgings
of
shining
yellow
,
a
mass
of
clouds
that
lay
piled
at
no
great
distance
above
the
western
hills
,
Hawkeye
turned
suddenly
,
and
,
pointing
upwards
towards
the
gorgeous
heavens
,
he
spoke
:
--
"
Yonder
is
the
signal
given
to
a
man
to
seek
his
food
and
natural
rest
,
"
he
said
:
"
better
and
wiser
would
it
be
,
if
he
could
understand
the
signs
of
nature
,
and
take
a
lesson
from
the
fowls
of
the
air
and
the
beasts
of
the
fields
!
Our
night
,
however
,
will
soon
be
over
;
for
,
with
the
moon
,
we
must
be
up
and
moving
again
.
I
remember
to
have
fou
'
t
the
Maquas
,
hereaways
,
in
the
first
war
in
which
I
ever
drew
blood
from
man
;
and
we
threw
up
a
work
of
blocks
,
to
keep
the
ravenous
varmints
from
handling
our
scalps
.
If
my
marks
do
not
fail
me
,
we
shall
find
the
place
a
few
rods
farther
to
our
left
.
"
Without
waiting
for
an
assent
,
or
,
indeed
,
for
any
reply
,
the
sturdy
hunter
moved
boldly
into
a
dense
thicket
of
young
chestnuts
,
shoving
aside
the
branches
of
the
exuberant
shoots
which
nearly
covered
the
ground
,
like
a
man
who
expected
,
at
each
step
,
to
discover
some
object
he
had
formerly
known
.
The
recollection
of
the
scout
did
not
deceive
him
.
After
penetrating
through
the
brush
,
matted
as
it
was
with
briers
,
for
a
few
hundred
feet
he
entered
an
open
space
,
that
surrounded
a
low
,
green
hillock
,
which
was
crowned
by
the
decayed
block-house
in
question
.
This
rude
and
neglected
building
was
one
of
those
deserted
works
,
which
,
having
been
thrown
up
on
an
emergency
,
had
been
abandoned
with
the
disappearance
of
danger
,
and
was
now
quietly
crumbling
in
the
solitude
of
the
forest
,
neglected
,
and
nearly
forgotten
,
like
the
circumstances
which
had
caused
it
to
be
reared
.
Such
memorials
of
the
passage
and
struggles
of
man
are
yet
frequent
throughout
the
broad
barrier
of
wilderness
which
once
separated
the
hostile
provinces
,
and
form
a
species
of
ruins
that
are
intimately
associated
with
the
recollections
of
colonial
history
,
and
which
are
in
appropriate
keeping
with
the
gloomy
character
of
the
surrounding
scenery
.
The
roof
of
bark
had
long
since
fallen
,
and
mingled
with
the
soil
;
but
the
huge
logs
of
pine
,
which
had
been
hastily
thrown
together
,
still
preserved
their
relative
positions
,
though
one
angle
of
the
work
had
given
way
under
the
pressure
,
and
threatened
a
speedy
downfall
to
the
remainder
of
the
rustic
edifice
.
While
Heyward
and
his
companions
hesitated
to
approach
a
building
so
decayed
,
Hawkeye
and
the
Indians
entered
within
the
low
walls
,
not
only
without
fear
,
but
with
obvious
interest
.
While
the
former
surveyed
the
ruins
,
both
internally
and
externally
,
with
the
curiosity
of
one
whose
recollections
were
reviving
at
each
moment
,
Chingachgook
related
to
his
son
,
in
the
language
of
the
Delawares
,
and
with
the
pride
of
a
conqueror
,
the
brief
history
of
the
skirmish
which
had
been
fought
,
in
his
youth
,
in
that
secluded
spot
.
A
strain
of
melancholy
,
however
,
blended
with
his
triumph
,
rendering
his
voice
,
as
usual
,
soft
and
musical
.
During
the
war
of
1776
Fort
Oswego
was
held
by
the
British
.
An
expedition
had
been
sent
two
hundred
miles
through
the
wilderness
to
surprise
the
fort
.
It
appears
that
the
Americans
,
on
reaching
the
spot
named
,
which
was
within
a
mile
or
two
of
the
fort
,
first
learned
that
they
were
expected
,
and
in
great
danger
of
being
cut
off
.
They
threw
away
their
scaling-ladders
,
and
made
a
rapid
retreat
.
These
ladders
had
lain
unmolested
thirty
years
,
in
the
spot
where
they
had
thus
been
cast
.
In
the
meantime
,
the
sisters
gladly
dismounted
,
and
prepared
to
enjoy
their
halt
in
the
coolness
of
the
evening
,
and
in
a
security
which
they
believed
nothing
but
the
beasts
of
the
forest
could
invade
.
"
Would
not
our
resting-place
have
been
more
retired
,
my
worthy
friend
,
"
demanded
the
more
vigilant
Duncan
,
perceiving
that
the
scout
had
already
finished
his
short
survey
,
"
had
we
chosen
a
spot
less
known
,
and
one
more
rarely
visited
than
this
?
"
"
Few
live
who
know
the
block-house
was
ever
raised
,
"
was
the
slow
and
musing
answer
;
"
'
tis
not
often
that
books
are
made
,
and
narratives
written
,
of
such
a
scrimmage
as
was
here
fou
'
t
atween
the
Mohicans
and
the
Mohawks
,
in
a
war
of
their
own
waging
.
I
was
then
a
younker
,
and
went
out
with
the
Delawares
,
because
I
know
'd
they
were
a
scandalized
and
wronged
race
.
