Our remaining here can avail nothing to poor Dodge." With these words, he assisted his kinswoman upon her palfrey, placed Telie Doe upon the horse of the unfortunate Yankee, and giving up his own Briareus to the exhausted negro, prepared to resume his ill-starred journey on foot.

Then, taking post on the rear, he gave the signal to his new guide; and once more the travellers were buried in the intricacies of the forest..