instinct with terror, towards the scene, and beheld the
warriors slowly issuing from the opposite side of the
forest into the plain, and bearing in silence the dead
and stiffened forms of those who had been cut down by
the destructive fire from the fort. Their mien was sullen
and revengeful, and more than one dark and gleaming eye
did he encounter turned upon him, with an expression that
seemed to say a separate torture should avenge the death
of each of their fallen comrades.

The early part of the morning wore away in preparation
for the interment of the slain. These were placed in
rows under the council shed, where they were attended by
their female relatives, who composed the features and
confined the limbs, while the gloomy warriors dug, within
the limit of the encampment, rude graves, of a depth just
sufficient to receive the body. When these were completed,
the dead were deposited, with the usual superstitious
ceremonies of these people, in their several receptacles,
after which a mound of earth was thrown up over each,
and the whole covered with round logs, so disposed as to
form a tomb of semicircular shape: at the head of each
grave was finally planted a pole, bearing various devices
in paint, intended to illustrate the warlike achievements
of the defunct parties.

Captain de Haldimar had followed the course of these
proceedings with a beating heart; for too plainly had he
read in the dark and threatening manner both of men and
women, that the retribution about to be wreaked upon