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We had now crept nearly to the edge of the water, the dry and scarcely discernible tracks leading us. But they were no fresher in the damp sand. However, the Mohican did not seem satisfied, so we pulled off our thigh-moccasins and waded out. Although the water looked deep enough along the unseen reef, yet we found nowhere more than four feet, and so crossed to the other side.
And it was truly pretty from the soft, wampum-broidered shirt with its hanging thrums, to the clinging skirt and delicate thigh-moccasins, wonderfully fringed with purple and inset in most curious designs with painted quills and beads and blue diamond-fronds from feathers of a little jay-bird's wing. Bit by bit I counted out the currency; and it took some little time.
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