The mother kept close beside him in the canoe, and the father stood on the bank encouraging his little son.

At length they all landed in safety, when the native came to return the tomahawk, which he understood to have been only lent to him.

However I was too much pleased with the scene I had witnessed to deprive him of it, nor did I ever see a man more delighted than he was when he found that the tomahawk, the value and superiority of which he had so lately proved was indeed his own.

He thanked me for it, he eyed it with infinite satisfaction, and then turning round plunged into the stream and joined his family on the opposite bank.
We journeyed as usual over the river flats, and occasionally crossed narrow sandy parts projecting into them.

From one of these Mr.Poole was the first to catch a glimpse of the hills for which we had been looking out so long and anxiously.