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Measures of precaution, however irksome, should always be adopted. It is only the slothful and vacillating who either neglect or regret them. "`Dat's true, Missa dat's berry true, said Cudjo, in a serious tone, for he well knew how to appreciate the teachings of his noble mistress.
I took an axe from the wagon also a tin-pot, and a piece of dry beef that still remained to us. Cudjo shouldered the axe and little Mary; I carried the beef, the pot, Luisa, and my rifle; while my wife, Frank, and Harry, each held something in their hands. Thus burdened, we bade adieu to the wagon, and struck off toward the mountain.
I will answer for that Cudjo could construct a log-cabin as well as the most renowned architect in the world.
We were about descending upon a lower limb to carry out this purpose, when a sound like the distant yelping of dogs broke upon our ears. It filled us at once with a terrible foreboding. We knew that it must be our own dogs; and we knew that Harry or Cudjo, or perhaps both, would be coming close upon their heels.
What Mary had said in jest was now likely to be realised in earnest, We might yet make our fortune in the Desert! "Of course, it was a settled point we resolved to remain. "The first thing to be done, then, was to provide ourselves with a house. It would be a `log-cabin, of course; and putting up a log-cabin was a mere bagatelle to Cudjo.
"At length we arrived at the glades, and entered one of the largest of them, where we halted. Pompo was taken from the cart, and picketed upon the grass; and we all followed Cudjo observing every movement that he made. Harry's eyes were on him like a lynx, for he feared lest Cudjo might go through some part of the operation without his seeing or understanding it.
The latter was now at the mercy of the 'coon, who was proceeding to demolish him in his usual fashion; but Cudjo could stand it no longer, and away went he and the dogs, with loud shouts, across the creek.
"`A raft! a raft! we shall yet be saved! "My companions at once understood my meaning. Cudjo seized the axe, while Mary hastened to the wagon to collect such ropes and cords as were in it. I knew there would not be enough of these for our purpose; and, spreading out the great elk-skin, I proceeded to cut it into stripes. "There were several logs lying close to our camp.
He was killed, however, in the following year, and from 1664 to 1738 the three thousand or more black Maroons fought the British Empire in guerrilla warfare. Soldiers, Indians, and dogs were sent against them, and finally in 1738 Captain Cudjo and other chiefs made a formal treaty of peace with Governor Trelawney. They were granted twenty-five hundred acres and their freedom was recognized.
Moreover, his claws, which are remarkable both for length and tenacity, were clutched firmly against the bottom of the crevice. It would have taken a team of oxen to have pulled him out, as Cudjo remarked with a grin.
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