The Hunters of the Hills
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Altsheler Joseph Alexander. The Hunters of the Hills
FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. THE THREE FRIENDS
CHAPTER II. ST. LUC
CHAPTER III. THE TOMAHAWK
CHAPTER IV. THE INTELLIGENT CANOE
CHAPTER V. THE MOHAWK CHIEF
CHAPTER VI. THE TWO FRENCHMEN
CHAPTER VII. NEW FRANCE
CHAPTER VIII. GUESTS OF THE ENEMY
CHAPTER IX. AT THE INN
CHAPTER X. THE MEETING
CHAPTER XI. BIGOT'S BALL
CHAPTER XII. THE HUNTER AND THE BRAVO
CHAPTER XIII. THE BOWMEN
CHAPTER XIV. ON CHAMPLAIN
CHAPTER XV. THE VALE OF ONONDAGA
CHAPTER XVI. THE GREAT TEST
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A canoe containing two boys and a man was moving slowly on one of the little lakes in the great northern wilderness of what is now the State of New York. The water, a brilliant blue under skies of the same intense sapphire tint, rippled away gently on either side of the prow, or rose in heaps of glittering bubbles, as the paddles were lifted for a new stroke.
Vast masses of dense foliage in the tender green of early spring crowned the high banks of the lake on every side. The eye found no break anywhere. Only the pink or delicate red of a wild flower just bursting into bloom varied the solid expanse of emerald walls; and save for the canoe and a bird of prey, darting in a streak of silver for a fish, the surface of the water was lone and silent.
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The arrows were three feet long, pointed with deer's horn, each carrying two feathers twisted about the shaft. They, like the bow and quiver, were fine specimens of workmanship and would have compared favorably with those used by the great English archers of the Middle Ages.
Tayoga examined the sharp tips of the arrows, and, poising the quiver over his left shoulder, fastened it on his back, securing the lower end at his waist with the sinews of the deer, and the upper with the same kind of cord, which he carried around the neck and then under his left arm. The ends of the arrows were thus convenient to his right hand, and with one sweeping circular motion he could draw them from the quiver and fit them to the bowstring.
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