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Chapter Sixteen. Vengeance.
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The terrible tale which was related by Slugs had the effect of changing Robin1 Gore2’s plans. He resolved to pursue the murderers, and inflict3 summary punishment on them before setting off on the contemplated4 search for his lost children, and he was all the more induced to do this that there was some hope he might be able to obtain a clue to their whereabouts from some of the prisoners whom he hoped to seize.
It might be thought by some a rash step for him to take—the pursuit of a band of about fifty savages5 with a party of six men. But backwood hunters were bold fellows in those days, and Indians were by no means noted6 for reckless courage. Six stout7, resolute8, and well-armed men were, in Robin’s opinion, quite a match for fifty redskins!
He could not muster9 more than six, because it was absolutely necessary to leave at least three men to guard Fort Enterprise. Robin therefore resolved to leave his brother Jeff to look after it, with two of the strangers; and Jeff accepted the charge with pleasure, saying he “would defend the place agin a hundred red reptiles10.” The third stranger—a man named Stiff—he resolved to take with him.
The war-party, when mustered11, consisted of Robin Gore, his nephew Walter, Larry O’Dowd, the Black Swan, Slugs the hunter, and Stiff the stranger. Armed to the teeth, these six put on their snow-shoes the following morning, and set
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vt.(on)把…强加给,使遭受,使承担 | |
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未开化的人,野蛮人( savage的名词复数 ) | |
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muster
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mustered
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prey
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vt.撒,驱散,散开;散布/播;vi.分散,消散 | |
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v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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