. Trust in Him."

Still I felt that I should die. It is very difficult to sustain gnawing
hunger, such as I then felt for the first time. I have no doubt that
Malcolm felt the same, but he was too brave to show it. Hour after hour
passed by; the water did not appear to be rising; the blades of grass
were still seen below us round the tree. I however felt that I could
not endure many more hours of suffering. "I must fall, indeed I must,"
I cried out over and over again. I should indeed have let go my hold,
had not my brave brother kept me up. Even he at last showed signs of
giving way, and spoke less encouragingly than before. He was silent for
some time. I saw him looking out eagerly, when he exclaimed--

"Cheer up, Harry, there is a canoe approaching; it will bring us help."

I gazed in the direction towards which he pointed. At first I could
only see a speck on the water. It grew larger and more distinct, till I
could see that it was certainly a canoe. Then we discovered that there
were two Indians in it. We shouted, but our voices sounded shrill and
weak. The Indians heard us, for they waved their paddles and turned the
head of the canoe towards the clump of trees. The canoe could not get
under the tree, but one of the Indians jumped out, and Malcolm told me
to slide down. The Indian caught me and carried me in his arms to the
canoe, for I was too weak to walk. Malcolm followed, and the Indian
helped him along also. It was not till we had been placed in the canoe
that we recognised in our preserver the young Indian, Sigenok, whose
life we had saved. We pronounced his name. He gave a well-satisfied
smile.

"Ah, you have not forgotten me, nor I you," he said in his own language.
"Favours conferred bind generous hearts together. Sigenok guessed that
you were in distress. Your elder brother has long been looking for
you."

It appeared that Sigenok had been at a distance hunting when the flood
commenced; that he had hastened back, and soon perceiving from the
height the water had attained that our house was in danger, had embarked
in his canoe and hastened toward it, but on his nearing the spot found
that it had been swept away. Guessing that we had escaped to the
eastern hills, he paddled there, when our friends told him that we had
proceeded in search of our father and servant. Having ascertained the
exact time of our departure, with the wonderful powers of calculation
possessed by Red men,