CHAPTER XXX.
THE INLAND WATERS.
They were not badly provided for their journey.

The captain of the Gloucester brig in which the Americans had started from Quebec knew Ephraim Savage well, as who did not upon the New England coast?
He had accepted his bill therefore at three months' date, at as high a rate of interest as he could screw out of him, and he had let him have in return three excellent guns, a good supply of ammunition, and enough money to provide for all his wants.

In this way he had hired the canoe and the Indians, and had fitted her with meat and biscuit to last them for ten days at the least.
"It's like the breath of life to me to feel the heft of a gun and to smell the trees round me," said Amos.

"Why, it cannot be more than a hundred leagues from here to Albany or Schenectady, right through the forest." "Ay, lad, but how is the gal to walk a hundred leagues through a forest?
No, no, let us keep water under our keel, and lean on the Lord." "Then there is only one way for it.

We must make the Richelieu River, and keep right along to Lake Champlain and Lake St.Sacrament.