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210 grassy swale between two wooded heights. Here there was a fine spring of water as well as plenty of young, straight growth suitable  for lodge-poles, and here permanent camp  was made. That night David slept, though not very soundly, under the stars, with his  two guards close beside him.

In the morning the women began the construction of the lodges while the men prepared for their business of war. Some few of the older men and boys went in search of  game and the maidens to seek berries, but  for the most part the Indians toiled at  erecting wigwams or adding to their store of  arrows and spears. Sequanawah and another came to the new village during the morning  and there followed a conclave of the sachem  and his counselors. David was put to work with some of the youths at raising lodge-poles, and, since in that treeless place the sun  had full way with his tender skin, he was  soon in agony. At last he could stand it no longer and, amid the shrill gibes of his companions, took his suffering body to the lee of  a wigwam and found some comfort in the  shade. There Sequanawah later found him and, seeing the puffed condition of his back  and shoulders, brought a fat and pitying