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N, and at daybreak before we makes our start." Two more days passed
quietly, and a feeling of hope pervaded the caravan that the Indians had
ridden on and sought for other prey. But Abe assured them that they must
not relax their precautions, and that the failure of the Indians to
attack was no proof whatever that they had abandoned their intention to
do so. "An Injin is always most dangerous just when you ain't thinking
of him. You may be sure we have been watched, although we haven't seen
no one, and that seeing as we are on guard they are waiting for us to
become careless again; or it may be they have fixed upon their place of
attack, and if so, you may bet yer life it is a good one. Above all
things you men impress upon the women and children that in case of a
sudden attack they shall each take refuge at once in the waggons, in the
places allotted to them, and that they shall do it with out any
squealing or yelling; there's nothing bothers men and flurries them,
just as they have got need to be cool and steady, as the yelping of a
pack of women. Just impress on them as it does no good, and adds to the
chances of their getting their throats cut and their har raised." The
hunter's orders were very strongly impressed upon the women and
children, and even the latter were made to feel thoroughly the
importance of silence in case of an attack. Upon the following day they
came upon a spot where the trail crossed a deep hollow; the sides were
extremely steep, the bottom flat and swampy. Rough attempts had been
made by preceding travellers to reduce the steepness of the