The men up there among the bushes never slept, and they allowed no one of their enemies to come near enough for a good shot with a musket.

The chances are ninety-nine out of a hundred that they were rangers, Great Bear, and we may speak of them as rangers.

Now, we come to a spot where at least a dozen warriors lay, and, since their largest force was here, it is probable that their chief stayed at this spot.

See, the small bones of the deer picked clean are lying among the bushes.

I draw from it the opinion, and so do you, Great Bear, that the warriors kept up the siege of the hill until dawn, because at dawn they would be most likely to eat their breakfast, and these little bones of the deer prove that they did eat this breakfast here.