5/9 His safeguard would have carried you through." "Is there not another chief, called Nucas ?" "Oh, old Nucas, of the Mohegans. He was a character! But he died ten years ago. There are a couple of Pequod settlements down near New Haven I believe; but they are too far off." "And then you could not tell me where to put my hand on some dozen or so of the Indians, whom I might engage as a convoy." "Not now. A roving party may pass in the woods at any time. |