My temple, Lord! that arch of thine;
My censer’s breath the mountain airs,
And silent thoughts my only prayers.
MOORE
The sublimity3 connected with vastness is familiar to every eye. The most abstruse4, the most far-reaching, perhaps the most chastened of the poet’s thoughts, crowd on the imagination as he gazes into the depths of the illimitable void. The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice5 with indifference6; and the mind, even in the obscurity of night, finds a parallel to that grandeur7, which seems inseparable from images that the senses cannot compass. With feelings akin8 to this admiration9 and awe10 — the offspring of sublimity — were the different characters with which the action of this tale must open, gazing on the scene before them. Four persons in all — two of each sex — they had managed to ascend11 a pile of trees, that had been uptorn by a tempest, to catch a view of the objects that surrounded them. It is still the practice of the country to call these spots wind-rows. By letting in the light of heaven upon the dark and damp recesses12 of the wood, they form a sort of oases13 in the solemn obscurity of the virgin14 forests of America. The particular wind-row of which we are writing lay on the brow of a gentle acclivity; and, though small, it had opened the way for an extensive view to those who might occupy its upper margin15, a rare occurrence to the traveller in the woods. Philosophy has not yet determined16 the nature of the power that so often lays desolate17 spots of this description; some ascribing it to the whirlwinds which produce waterspouts on the ocean, while others again impute18 it to sudden and violent passages of streams of the electric fluid; but the effects in the woods are familiar to all. On the upper margin of the opening, the viewless influence had piled tree on tree, in such a manner as had not only enabled the two males of the party to ascend to an elevation19 of some thirty feet above the level of the earth, but, with a little care and encouragement, to induce their more timid companions to accompany them. The vast trunks which had been broken and driven by the force of the gust20 lay blended like jack-straws; while their branches, still exhaling21 the fragrance22 of withering23 leaves, were interlaced in a manner to afford sufficient support to the hands. One tree had been completely uprooted24, and its lower end, filled with earth, had been cast uppermost, in a way to supply a sort of staging for the four adventurers, when they had gained the desired distance from the ground.
The reader is to anticipate none of the appliances of people of condition in the description of the personal appearances of the group in question. They were all wayfarers25 in the wilderness26; and had they not been, neither their previous habits, nor their actual social positions, would have accustomed them to many of the luxuries of rank. Two of the party, indeed, a male and female, belonged to the native owners of the soil, being Indians of the well-known tribe of the Tuscaroras; while their companions were — a man, who bore about him the peculiarities27 of one who had passed his days on the ocean, and was, too, in a station little, if any, above that of a common mariner28; and his female associate, who was a maiden29 of a class in no great degree superior to his own; though her youth, sweetness and countenance30, and a modest, but spirited mien31, lent that character of intellect and refinement32 which adds so much to the charm of beauty in the sex. On the present occasion, her full blue eye reflected the feeling of sublimity that the scene excited, and her pleasant face was beaming with the pensive33 expression with which all deep emotions, even though they bring the most grateful pleasure, shadow the countenances34 of the ingenuous35 and thoughtful.
And truly the scene was of a nature deeply to impress the imagination of the beholder36. Towards the west, in which direction the faces of the party were turned, the eye ranged over an ocean of leaves, glorious and rich in the varied38 and lively verdure of a generous vegetation, and shaded by the luxuriant tints39 which belong to the forty-second degree of latitude40. The elm with its graceful41 and weeping top, the rich varieties of the maple42, most of the noble oaks of the American forest, with the broad-leaved linden known in the parlance43 of the country as the basswood, mingled45 their uppermost branches, forming one broad and seemingly interminable carpet of foliage46 which stretched away towards the setting sun, until it bounded the horizon, by blending with the clouds, as the waves and the sky meet at the base of the vault47 of heaven. Here and there, by some accident of the tempests, or by a caprice of nature, a trifling48 opening among these giant members of the forest permitted an inferior tree to struggle upward toward the light, and to lift its modest head nearly to a level with the surrounding surface of verdure. Of this class were the birch, a tree of some account in regions less favored, the quivering aspen, various generous nut-woods, and divers49 others which resembled the ignoble50 and vulgar, thrown by circumstances into the presence of the stately and great. Here and there, too, the tall straight trunk of the pine pierced the vast field, rising high above it, like some grand monument reared by art on a plain of leaves.
It was the vastness of the view, the nearly unbroken surface of verdure, that contained the principle of grandeur. The beauty was to be traced in the delicate tints, relieved by graduations of light and shade; while the solemn repose51 induced the feeling allied52 to awe.
“Uncle,” said the wondering, but pleased girl, addressing her male companion, whose arm she rather touched than leaned on, to steady her own light but firm footing, “this is like a view of the ocean you so much love!”
“So much for ignorance, and a girl’s fancy, Magnet,"— a term of affection the sailor often used in allusion53 to his niece’s personal attractions; “no one but a child would think of likening this handful of leaves to a look at the real Atlantic. You might seize all these tree-tops to Neptune’s jacket, and they would make no more than a nosegay for his bosom54.”
“More fanciful than true, I think, uncle. Look thither55; it must be miles on miles, and yet we see nothing but leaves! what could one behold37, if looking at the ocean?”
“More!” returned the uncle, giving an impatient gesture with the elbow the other touched, for his arms were crossed, and the hands were thrust into the bosom of a vest of red cloth, a fashion of the times — “more, Magnet! say, rather, what less? Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?”
“And where are your tree-tops, your solemn silence, your fragrant leaves, and your beautiful green, uncle, on the ocean?”
“Tut, Magnet! if you understood the thing, you would know that green water is a sailor’s bane. He scarcely relishes56 a greenhorn less.”
“But green trees are a different thing. Hist! that sound is the air breathing among the leaves!”
“You should hear a nor-wester breathe, girl, if you fancy wind aloft. Now, where are your gales57, and hurricanes, and trades, and levanters, and such like incidents, in this bit of a forest? And what fishes have you swimming beneath yonder tame surface?”
“That there have been tempests here, these signs around us plainly show; and beasts, if not fishes, are beneath those leaves.”
“I do not know that,” returned the uncle, with a sailor’s dogmatism. “They told us many stories at Albany of the wild animals we should fall in with, and yet we have seen nothing to frighten a seal. I doubt if any of your inland animals will compare with a low latitude shark.”
“See!” exclaimed the niece, who was more occupied with the sublimity and beauty of the “boundless wood” than with her uncle’s arguments; “yonder is a smoke curling over the tops of the trees — can it come from a house?”
“Ay, ay; there is a look of humanity in that smoke,” returned the old seaman58, “which is worth a thousand trees. I must show it to Arrowhead, who may be running past a port without knowing it. It is probable there is a caboose where there is a smoke.”
As he concluded, the uncle drew a hand from his bosom, touched the male Indian, who was standing59 near him, lightly on the shoulder, and pointed60 out a thin line of vapor61 which was stealing slowly out of the wilderness of leaves, at a distance of about a mile, and was diffusing62 itself in almost imperceptible threads of humidity in the quivering atmosphere. The Tuscarora was one of those noble-looking warriors63 oftener met with among the aborigines of this continent a century since than to-day; and, while he had mingled sufficiently65 with the colonists66 to be familiar with their habits and even with their language, he had lost little, if any, of the wild grandeur and simple dignity of a chief. Between him and the old seaman the intercourse67 had been friendly, but distant; for the Indian had been too much accustomed to mingle44 with the officers of the different military posts he had frequented not to understand that his present companion was only a subordinate. So imposing68, indeed, had been the quiet superiority of the Tuscarora’s reserve, that Charles Cap, for so was the seaman named, in his most dogmatical or facetious69 moments, had not ventured on familiarity in an intercourse which had now lasted more than a week. The sight of the curling smoke, however, had struck the latter like the sudden appearance of a sail at sea; and, for the first time since they met, he ventured to touch the warrior64, as has been related.
The quick eye of the Tuscarora instantly caught a sight of the smoke; and for full a minute he stood, slightly raised on tiptoe, with distended70 nostrils71, like the buck72 that scents73 a taint75 in the air, and a gaze as riveted76 as that of the trained pointer while he waits his master’s aim. Then, falling back on his feet, a low exclamation77, in the soft tones that form so singular a contrast to its harsher cries in the Indian warrior’s voice, was barely audible; otherwise, he was undisturbed. His countenance was calm, and his quick, dark, eagle eye moved over the leafy panorama78, as if to take in at a glance every circumstance that might enlighten his mind. That the long journey they had attempted to make through a broad belt of wilderness was necessarily attended with danger, both uncle and niece well knew; though neither could at once determine whether the sign that others were in their vicinity was the harbinger of good or evil.
“There must be Oneidas or Tuscaroras near us, Arrowhead,” said Cap, addressing his Indian companion by his conventional English name; “will it not be well to join company with them, and get a comfortable berth79 for the night in their wigwam?”
“No wigwam there,” Arrowhead answered in his unmoved manner —“too much tree.”
“But Indians must be there; perhaps some old mess-mates of your own, Master Arrowhead.”
“No Tuscarora — no Oneida — no Mohawk — pale-face fire.”
“The devil it is? Well, Magnet, this surpasses a seaman’s philosophy: we old sea-dogs can tell a lubber’s nest from a mate’s hammock; but I do not think the oldest admiral in his Majesty’s fleet can tell a king’s smoke from a collier’s .”
The idea that human beings were in their vicinity, in that ocean of wilderness, had deepened the flush on the blooming cheek and brightened the eye of the fair creature at his side; but she soon turned with a look of surprise to her relative, and said hesitatingly, for both had often admired the Tuscarora’s knowledge, or, we might almost say, instinct —
“A pale-face’s fire! Surely, uncle, he cannot know that?”
“Ten days since, child, I would have sworn to it; but now I hardly know what to believe. May I take the liberty of asking, Arrowhead, why you fancy that smoke, now, a pale-face’s smoke, and not a red-skin’s?”
“Wet wood,” returned the warrior, with the calmness with which the pedagogue81 might point out an arithmetical demonstration82 to his puzzled pupil. “Much wet — much smoke; much water — black smoke.”
“But, begging your pardon, Master Arrowhead, the smoke is not black, nor is there much of it. To my eye, now, it is as light and fanciful a smoke as ever rose from a captain’s tea-kettle, when nothing was left to make the fire but a few chips from the dunnage.”
“Too much water,” returned Arrowhead, with a slight nod of the head; “Tuscarora too cunning to make fire with water! Pale-face too much book, and burn anything; much book, little know.”
“Well, that’s reasonable, I allow,” said Cap, who was no devotee of learning: “he means that as a hit at your reading, Magnet; for the chief has sensible notions of things in his own way. How far, now, Arrowhead, do you make us, by your calculation, from the bit of a pond that you call the Great Lake, and towards which we have been so many days shaping our course?”
The Tuscarora looked at the seaman with quiet superiority as he answered, “Ontario, like heaven; one sun, and the great traveller will know it.”
“Well, I have been a great traveller, I cannot deny; but of all my v’y’ges this has been the longest, the least profitable, and the farthest inland. If this body of fresh water is so nigh, Arrowhead, and so large, one might think a pair of good eyes would find it out; for apparently83 everything within thirty miles is to be seen from this lookout84.”
“Look,” said Arrowhead, stretching an arm before him with quiet grace; “Ontario!”
“Uncle, you are accustomed to cry ‘Land ho!’ but not ‘Water ho!’ and you do not see it,” cried the niece, laughing, as girls will laugh at their own idle conceits85.
“How now, Magnet! dost suppose that I shouldn’t know my native element if it were in sight?”
“But Ontario is not your native element, dear uncle; for you come from the salt water, while this is fresh.”
“That might make some difference to your young mariner, but none to the old one. I should know water, child, were I to see it in China.”
“Ontario,” repeated Arrowhead, with emphasis, again stretching his hand towards the north-west.
Cap looked at the Tuscarora, for the first time since their acquaintance, with something like an air of contempt, though he did not fail to follow the direction of the chief’s eye and arm, both of which were directed towards a vacant point in the heavens, a short distance above the plain of leaves.
“Ay, ay; this is much as I expected, when I left the coast in search of a fresh-water pond,” resumed Cap, shrugging his shoulders like one whose mind was made up, and who thought no more need be said. “Ontario may be there, or, for that matter, it may be in my pocket. Well, I suppose there will be room enough, when we reach it, to work our canoe. But Arrowhead, if there be pale-faces in our neighborhood, I confess I should like to get within hail of them.”
The Tuscarora now gave a quiet inclination86 of his head, and the whole party descended87 from the roots of the up-torn tree in silence. When they reached the ground, Arrowhead intimated his intention to go towards the fire, and ascertain88 who had lighted it; while he advised his wife and the two others to return to a canoe, which they had left in the adjacent stream, and await his return.
“Why, chief, this might do on soundings, and in an offing where one knew the channel,” returned old Cap; “but in an unknown region like this I think it unsafe to trust the pilot alone too far from the ship: so, with your leave, we will not part company.”
“What my brother want?” asked the Indian gravely, though without taking offence at a distrust that was sufficiently plain.
“Your company, Master Arrowhead, and no more. I will go with you and speak these strangers.”
The Tuscarora assented90 without difficulty, and again he directed his patient and submissive little wife, who seldom turned her full rich black eye on him but to express equally her respect, her dread91, and her love, to proceed to the boat. But here Magnet raised a difficulty. Although spirited, and of unusual energy under circumstances of trial, she was but woman; and the idea of being entirely92 deserted93 by her two male protectors, in the midst of a wilderness that her senses had just told her was seemingly illimitable, became so keenly painful, that she expressed a wish to accompany her uncle.
“The exercise will be a relief, dear sir, after sitting so long in the canoe,” she added, as the rich blood slowly returned to a cheek that had paled in spite of her efforts to be calm; “and there may be females with the strangers.”
“Come, then, child; it is but a cable’s length, and we shall return an hour before the sun sets.”
With this permission, the girl, whose real name was Mabel Dunham, prepared to be of the party; while the Dew-of-June, as the wife of Arrowhead was called, passively went her way towards the canoe, too much accustomed to obedience94, solitude95, and the gloom of the forest to feel apprehension96.
The three who remained in the wind-row now picked their way around its tangled97 maze98, and gained the margin of the woods. A few glances of the eye sufficed for Arrowhead; but old Cap deliberately99 set the smoke by a pocket-compass, before he trusted himself within the shadows of the trees.
“This steering100 by the nose, Magnet, may do well enough for an Indian, but your thoroughbred knows the virtue101 of the needle,” said the uncle, as he trudged102 at the heels of the light-stepping Tuscarora. “America would never have been discovered, take my word for it, if Columbus had been nothing but nostrils. Friend Arrowhead, didst ever see a machine like this?”
The Indian turned, cast a glance at the compass, which Cap held in a way to direct his course, and gravely answered, “A pale-face eye. The Tuscarora see in his head. The Salt-water (for so the Indian styled his companion) all eye now; no tongue.”
“He means, uncle, that we had needs be silent, perhaps he distrusts the persons we are about to meet.”
“Ay, ’tis an Indian’s fashion of going to quarters. You perceive he has examined the priming of his rifle, and it may be as well if I look to that of my own pistols.”
Without betraying alarm at these preparations, to which she had become accustomed by her long journey in the wilderness, Mabel followed with a step as elastic103 as that of the Indian, keeping close in the rear of her companions. For the first half mile no other caution beyond a rigid104 silence was observed; but as the party drew nearer to the spot where the fire was known to be, much greater care became necessary.
The forest, as usual, had little to intercept105 the view below the branches but the tall straight trunks of trees. Everything belonging to vegetation had struggled towards the light, and beneath the leafy canopy106 one walked, as it might be, through a vast natural vault, upheld by myriads107 of rustic108 columns. These columns or trees, however, often served to conceal109 the adventurer, the hunter, or the foe110; and, as Arrowhead swiftly approached the spot where his practised and unerring senses told him the strangers ought to be, his footstep gradually became lighter111, his eye more vigilant112, and his person was more carefully concealed113.
“See, Saltwater,” said he exulting114, pointing through the vista115 of trees; “pale-face fire!”
“By the Lord, the fellow is right!” muttered Cap; “there they are, sure enough, and eating their grub as quietly as if they were in the cabin of a three-decker.”
“Arrowhead is but half right!” whispered Mabel, “for there are two Indians and only one white man.”
“Pale-faces,” said the Tuscarora, holding up two fingers; “red man,” holding up one.
“Well,” rejoined Cap, “it is hard to say which is right and which is wrong. One is entirely white, and a fine comely116 lad he is, with an air of respectability about him; one is a red-skin as plain as paint and nature can make him; but the third chap is half-rigged, being neither brig nor schooner117.”
“Pale-faces,” repeated Arrowhead, again raising two fingers, “red man,” showing but one.
“He must be right, uncle; for his eye seems never to fail. But it is now urgent to know whether we meet as friends or foes118. They may be French.”
“One hail will soon satisfy us on that head,” returned Cap. “Stand you behind the tree, Magnet, lest the knaves119 take it into their heads to fire a broadside without a parley120, and I will soon learn what colors they sail under.”
The uncle had placed his two hands to his mouth to form a trumpet121, and was about to give the promised hail, when a rapid movement from the hand of Arrowhead defeated the intention by deranging122 the instrument.
“Red man, Mohican,” said the Tuscarora; “good; pale-faces, Yengeese.”
“These are heavenly tidings,” murmured Mabel, who little relished123 the prospect124 of a deadly fray125 in that remote wilderness. “Let us approach at once, dear uncle, and proclaim ourselves friends.”
“Good,” said the Tuscarora “red man cool, and know; pale-face hurried, and fire. Let the squaw go.”
“What!” said Cap in astonishment126; “send little Magnet ahead as a lookout, while two lubbers, like you and me, lie-to to see what sort of a landfall she will make! If I do, I—”
“It is wisest, uncle,” interrupted the generous girl, “and I have no fear. No Christian127, seeing a woman approach alone, would fire upon her; and my presence will be a pledge of peace. Let me go forward, as Arrowhead wishes, and all will be well. We are, as yet, unseen, and the surprise of the strangers will not partake of alarm.”
“Good,” returned Arrowhead, who did not conceal his approbation128 of Mabel’s spirit.
“It has an unseaman-like look,” answered Cap; “but, being in the woods, no one will know it. If you think, Mabel —”
“Uncle, I know. There is no cause to fear for me; and you are always nigh to protect me.”
“Well, take one of the pistols, then —”
“Nay, I had better rely on my youth and feebleness,” said the girl, smiling, while her color heightened under her feelings. “Among Christian men, a woman’s best guard is her claim to their protection. I know nothing of arms, and wish to live in ignorance of them.”
The uncle desisted; and, after receiving a few cautious instructions from the Tuscarora, Mabel rallied all her spirit, and advanced alone towards the group seated near the fire. Although the heart of the girl beat quick, her step was firm, and her movements, seemingly, were without reluctance129. A death-like silence reigned130 in the forest, for they towards whom she approached were too much occupied in appeasing131 their hunger to avert132 their looks for an instant from the important business in which they were all engaged. When Mabel, however, had got within a hundred feet of the fire, she trod upon a dried stick, and the trifling noise produced by her light footstep caused the Mohican, as Arrowhead had pronounced the Indian to be, and his companion, whose character had been thought so equivocal, to rise to their feet, as quick as thought. Both glanced at the rifles that leaned against a tree; and then each stood without stretching out an arm, as his eyes fell on the form of the girl. The Indian uttered a few words to his companion, and resumed his seat and his meal as calmly as if no interruption had occurred. On the contrary, the white man left the fire, and came forward to meet Mabel.
The latter saw, as the stranger approached that she was about to be addressed by one of her own color, though his dress was so strange a mixture of the habits of the two races, that it required a near look to be certain of the fact. He was of middle age; but there was an open honesty, a total absence of guile133, in his face, which otherwise would not have been thought handsome, that at once assured Magnet she was in no danger. Still she paused.
“Fear nothing, young woman,” said the hunter, for such his attire134 would indicate him to be; “you have met Christian men in the wilderness, and such as know how to treat all kindly135 who are disposed to peace and justice. I am a man well known in all these parts, and perhaps one of my names may have reached your ears. By the Frenchers and the red-skins on the other side of the Big Lakes, I am called La Longue Carabine; by the Mohicans, a just-minded and upright tribe, what is left of them, Hawk80 Eye; while the troops and rangers89 along this side of the water call me Pathfinder, inasmuch as I have never been known to miss one end of the trail, when there was a Mingo, or a friend who stood in need of me, at the other.”
This was not uttered boastfully, but with the honest confidence of one who well knew that by whatever name others might have heard of him, who had no reason to blush at the reports. The effect on Mabel was instantaneous. The moment she heard the last sobriquet136 she clasped her hands eagerly and repeated the word “Pathfinder!”
“So they call me, young woman, and many a great lord has got a title that he did not half so well merit; though, if truth be said, I rather pride myself in finding my way where there is no path, than in finding it where there is. But the regular troops are by no means particular, and half the time they don’t know the difference between a trail and a path, though one is a matter for the eye, while the other is little more than scent74.”
“Then you are the friend my father promised to send to meet us?”
“If you are Sergeant137 Dunham’s daughter, the great Prophet of the Delawares never uttered more truth.”
“I am Mabel; and yonder, hid by the trees, are my uncle, whose name is Cap, and a Tuscarora called Arrowhead. We did not hope to meet you until we had nearly reached the shores of the lake.”
“I wish a juster-minded Indian had been your guide,” said Pathfinder; “for I am no lover of the Tuscaroras, who have travelled too far from the graves of their fathers always to remember the Great Spirit; and Arrowhead is an ambitious chief. Is the Dew-of-June with him?”
“His wife accompanies us, and a humble138 and mild creature she is.”
“Ay, and true-hearted; which is more than any who know him will say of Arrowhead. Well, we must take the fare that Providence139 bestows140, while we follow the trail of life. I suppose worse guides might have been found than the Tuscarora; though he has too much Mingo blood for one who consorts141 altogether with the Delawares.”
“It is, then, perhaps, fortunate we have met,” said Mabel.
“It is not misfortunate, at any rate; for I promised the Sergeant I would see his child safe to the garrison142, though I died for it. We expected to meet you before you reached the Falls, where we have left our own canoe; while we thought it might do no harm to come up a few miles, in order to be of service if wanted. It is lucky we did, for I doubt if Arrowhead be the man to shoot the current.”
“Here come my uncle and the Tuscarora, and our parties can now join.” As Mabel concluded, Cap and Arrowhead, who saw that the conference was amicable143, drew nigh; and a few words sufficed to let them know as much as the girl herself had learned from the strangers. As soon as this was done, the party proceeded towards the two who still remained near the fire.
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