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92 wigwams showed their tops above a rude palisade of logs and the smoke of early fires  filled the air. The barking of dogs made a great din, and, as David’s captors paused at  the edge of the woods, a door in the fort  opened and several Indians, men and women, came through, and with them a dozen  snarling, barking mongrels, and Sequanawah  called something above the clamor and they  went forward again toward the doorway.