15/34 Catch it, Dagaeoga!" Robert caught, and he saw that it was, in truth, powder and lead. "You couldn't have gone to any settlement!" "There is no settlement to go to. I made our enemies furnish the powder and lead we need so much, and that is surely the cheapest way. I remembered that to the east of us, about two days' journey, was a long valley sheltered well and warm, in which Indians who fight the Hodenosaunee often camp. I thought it likely they would be there in such a winter as this, and that I might take from them in the night the powder and lead we need so much. |