The utter improbability of such a movement was obvious to all who considered the nature of the country to be traversed, and the efficient and numerous body of whites by whom they must be opposed on their entrance into that neighborhood.

There were some, however, who could not be persuaded that there was any security but in flight, and eagerly was the arrival of the "Mariner" looked for, as the anxiety grew more and more intense.
The "Mariner" appeared at last.

It was early in the morning.

In one hour from the time of her arrival the fearful news she brought had spread the whole length of the settlement--"the cholera was in this country! It was in Detroit--it was among the troops who were on their way to the seat of war! Whole companies had died of it in the river St.Clair, and the survivors had been put on shore at Port Gratiot, to save their lives as best they might!" We were shut in between the savage foe on one hand and the pestilence on the other! To those who had friends at the East the news was most appalling.

It seemed to unman every one who heard it.