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I see no older woman yonder." "Mrs. Sabin, the lady of Captain Sabin, Staff Commissary of Issues." "Where is she, then?" "We left her with the army at the Ouleout." "Where do you propose to quarter these ladies?" "We understand that you have four block-forts mounting cannon. That would argue barracks. Therefore, I don't think the danger is very considerable. Do you?"
The Sagamore shook his head with a grimace, saying that it would be easier to swim the Susquehanna at Tioga than to ford it here. Very quietly we drew in or picked up our pickets, including the ruffianly Wyandotte, or Erie, as he was now judged to be, and, filing as we had filed the night before we crossed the Ouleout and entered the forest.
I was aroused toward nine by the Mohican, and sat up as wide awake as a disturbed tree-cat, instantly ready for trouble. "An Oneida on the Ouleout," he said. "Where?" "Yonder just across." "Friendly?" "He has made the sign." "An ambassador?" "A runner, not a belt-bearer." "Bring him to me." Strung along the banks of the Ouleout, each behind a tree, I saw my Indians crouching, rifles ready.
"By the Cherry, Quenevas, and Charlotte to the Ouleout. The Mengwe fired on me as I stood on a high cliff and mocked them." "Did they follow you?" "Can my brother Loskiel trail feathered wings through the high air paths? A little way I let them follow, then took wing, leaving them to whine and squall on the Susquehanna." "And Butler and McDonald?" I demanded, smiling. "I do not know.
Except for a very few places on the Ouleout, and the Iroquois towns, the region was uninhabited. But the forest was beautiful after its own somewhat appalling fashion, which was stupendous, majestic, and awe-inspiring to the verge of apprehension. Under these limitless lanes of enormous trees no sunlight fell, no underbrush grew. All was still and vague and dusky as in pillared aisles.
"They have done so, Loskiel." "Very well. Our order of march will be the same as yesterday. We keep the Wyandotte between us." "That is wisdom." "Is it to be a running fight, Mayaro?" "Perhaps, if their main body comes up." "Then we had best start across the Ouleout, unless you mean to ford the Susquehanna."
On the 16th came a runner from Clinton with news that the Otsego army was on the march and not very far distant from the Ouleout; and a detachment of eight hundred men, under Brigadier General Poor, was sent forward to meet our Right Wing and escort it back to this camp.
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