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"Why, what's the matter?" he asked, looking up in the terror-stricken countenance of the negro. "Hebens, golly! dey've come!" "Who has come? what are you talking about?" "De Injines. Dar's forty fousand of 'em out dar in de clearing!"
My old injines are feelin' about fur an excuse to cave in." "Well, hang on," replied Dan, "and don't tell me what you feel may happen; I can think up enough things myself." "Well," and Crampton hesitated. "I didn't come up here fur anythin' I've said Cap'n," he added in a low voice; "we're takin' in water."
Withdrawing further into the wood, he asked the negro when he had first seen them. "Massa Canfield, I stood and watched out dar for two, free hours till I fell asleep myself and come down kerwollup on de ground. I laid dar a good while afore I woke, and de fust t'ing I see'd when I looked out dar, war dem Injines walking round, kickin' up t'ings and makin' darselves at home ginerally.
They had just completed their meal, when Niniotan and Oonomoo started, raising their heads, as if something had caught their ears. Listening a moment, the latter said: "Somebody comin'." "Hebens, golly! am it Injines?" asked Cato, looking around for some good place to hide.
But a Jap'nese rowboat cud knock to pieces th' whole Atlantic squadron. It cud so. They're marvellous sailors. They use guns that shoot around th' corner. They fire these here injines iv desthruction with a mysteeryous powdher made iv a substance on'y known to thim. It is called saltpether. These guns hurl projyctiles weighin' eighty tons two thousand miles. On land they ar-re even more tur-rible.
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