es,
breaking into the wildest gushing songs, they involuntarily exclaimed,
"We too are free, and sing with great joy of our deliverance!"

After consuming the rest of their deer for a morning's repast, they
plunged into the unknown wild, for so various had been their trials
that they had lost all conception of distance or place; and, save the
knowledge that they had travelled sometimes south, then again west,
they had no idea where they were. Taking a north-easterly direction as
near as they could determine the points of compass, they boldly set out
and travelled until the sun was high in the heavens; then faint and
weary, they sought for a place to rest, and something to satisfy their
hunger. They soon found a cool shady spring, and after quenching their
thirst, saw with pleasure, a little way beyond, where there had been a
windfall, and as berries generally grow profusely in such places, they
hastened to it and found, as they had anticipated, an abundant supply,
as it was now the season for their ripening. After eating as many as
they desired, the chief took some stout twigs, and weaving them into a
basket, lined it with leaves, and recommended filling it with the
fruit; which they did, and then returned to the spring where they sat
down to rest.

"Well, chief," said Howe. "I don't think we shall make much headway,
living on berries. We must contrive some means of taking some of the
game with which these woods are filled."

"True," said Sidney. "I, too, do not think a dinner of berries is at
all necessary. The game here, evidently, has never been hunted, for it
is remarkably tame. I almost laid my hand on a pheasant once or twice
before it flew away, while picking berries."

"I must say, a roasted pheasant would be very welcome now," said
Edward, "I wish you had quite laid your hands on it."

"Hark!" said the chief, "I hear steps: something is coming to the
spring to drink. Stay in your positions without making a noise, and I
will see what can be done." So saying, he swiftly and noiselessly crept
among some bushes that grew on the side of the spring, which would
bring him a few feet behind any animal that approached by a small path
which had probably been beaten by the denizens of the forest as they
came here to slake their thirst. His only weapons were a tomahawk, a
long hunting knife, and bow and arrows, which he had taken from the
sentinel. Indeed, these were all the weapons of any kind in the
possession of t