I guess they will have placed a lot of canoes and flatboats across the lake, opposite Crown Point, for they will know that we should either head back, or take to the woods.

I guess most of the redskins near Crown Point will have crossed over at this point, as, in course, we were more likely to land on this side.

I had a mighty good mind to land whar we was over there, but there are sure to be such a heap of Indians, making their way up that side from Montreal, that I judge this will be the best; but we shall have all we can do to get free of them." "Why didn't you land at once, Nat, after we lost sight of them, instead of crossing over ?" "Because that's where they will reckon we shall land, captain.

That's where they will look for our tracks the first thing in the morning, and they will know that we can't travel far such a dark night as this, and they will search every inch of the shore for three or four miles below where they lost sight of us, to find where we landed.

They would know well enough we couldn't get ashore, without leaving tracks as they would make out, and they would reckon to pick up our trail fast enough, in the wood, and to overtake us before we had gone many miles.
"Now, you see, we have doubled on them.