If it come to running, of course you will take your paddle again, and we three can show our heels to any canoe on the lakes, perviding of course as it's only a starn chase.

If there are three or four of them, then I don't say as it won't be a close thing." James accordingly lay quietly back in the boat, while his companions took the paddles.

It was not necessary for him either to look out, or to listen, for he knew that his companions' eyes and ears were quicker than his own.

It had been agreed, before starting, that they should go along close to the trees, on the left-hand side of the passage, because the keenest lookout would be kept on the right-hand side, as that would naturally be chosen by any boat going up, as being farthest from the French fort.
"There is no fear, whatever, of our being seen from the land," Nat had said.

"The redskins would know that so well that they wouldn't trouble to look out.