ous, so much so that the water penetrated the roof and began
to fall upon Sidney's couch.

"This will never answer," said the trapper. "We must have a more regular
layer of bark over the cabin. I saw plenty of it but a little distance
where some large trees have fallen." Starting out with the chief, they
were peeling off the bark with the tomahawk by the aid of a lever, when
they discovered further down the stream a herd of deer feeding. Seizing
his bow and arrows which the chief had taken with him, he stole
cautiously towards them, and before they had taken the alarm a noble
buck and a doe had each an arrow shot through the heart. They were
conveyed to the cabin, and the successful hunters returned to cutting
their bark. After having rendered the cabin impervious to water they
dressed their game, stretching the skins to dry; "for," said the chief,
"snow will come and much skin be wanted." The venison was then cut in
slices and hung up to dry, so that it would be on hand if the game
should become scarce around them.

Towards night the chief with his tomahawk in his belt and his bow in
his hand went out to explore the country around in order to determine
what course was best to pursue. Taking a south-east direction, the face
of the country was level and very fertile, producing wild fruits and
nuts in abundance, which were now ripe, and with which the trees were
loaded.

"We shall not starve, at least," said the chief to himself, "if we
cannot go any farther, which I fear we shall not this fall. It is plain
the young brave cannot travel, and if he could, we are perhaps farther
from home now than ever. The Great Spirit only knows which way is the
right one to travel in order to find ourselves." He was surprised as he
went on to find the trees of the forest of less primitive growth,
especially those peculiar to the soil; and still greater surprised to
find them interspersed with trees now laden with ripe fruits of a
species he had never seen before; and more surprising still, these
trees were much larger than the wild ones, appearing of not more than a
hundred years growth. As he went further on the scenery became
perfectly enchanting. It had the appearance of having been a garden
deserted and run to waste after many years of high cultivation, rather
than a part of the wilds in a new world. Satisfied with discovering a
spot more congenial for building a hut that would withstand the winter
storms which were approaching, a