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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Are you sure of what you tell us, Mahnewe?" asked Sidney; "for a mistake on this point might involve us all in destruction." "Are not yonder the hills where my childhood's years were spent? Who can forget the home of their kindred, the place of their birth?" "Sometimes hills in the distance bear a resemblance to others, which vanishes on a nearer approach," observed the trapper.
Let not the white man fear; he has saved the life of a wife of the chief, and Mahnewe will answer for his safety." "Are you sure of what you say?" asked Jane, whose dread of cannibals was the torture of her life. "Mahnewe cannot mistake the place of her people," said the squaw, looking amused at the evident fright of the young girl. "I mean of what tribe are they, are you, Mahnewe?"
The squaw rising from the bank where she had been sitting advanced with the look of sadness entirely dispelled from her face, which was now sunny and radiant with joy. "Mahnewe," said she, speaking earnestly and rapidly, "is the friend of the white man, and so are her people. Over the hills yonder is their village and these are their hunting grounds.
One thing alone grieved them the evident increasing terror with which Mahnewe, the Indian mother, regarded the chief. In order to free her as much from his presence as possible, Howe had proposed long hunts, by going to the forest at early dawn, and not returning until evening.
A frightful encounter. Escape of Mahnewe. They pursue their journey in the night and take a wrong direction. Discovery of a river, over which they cross. Came to a prairie. Desolate appearance of the country. Approach a sandy desert and conclude to cross it. They provide themselves with ample provisions and set out over the cheerless waste.
Happily they were well provided with horses, having still in their possession those that had been appropriated to the use of Oudin and Mahnewe, as well as the two pack horses. Gathering large quantities of grass by cutting it up with their hunting knives, they bound it in compact bundles; then taking some skins, they sewed them up, making them tight and secure for water-bags.
They rode gaily forth Howe with his niece and nephew, the Indian chieftain, the timid Mahnewe with her child, and the wild man, whom they had christened Oudin, from a habit he had of repeating a sound very much like the pronunciation of that word. He had become quite docile, understood many sentences, and could be made to understand by words and signs all that was required of him.
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