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, escaping toward the mountains. One of them cut his moccasins into strings and with a hook caught fishes in a pond, but the fruits (as cranberries) which they ate, are said to have come out through their wounds.

Meanwhile we were advancing farther into the country and into the day, which last proved almost as golden as the preceding, the slight bustle and activity of Monday being added to the Sundayness of Nature. Occasionally one would run along the shore for a change; examining the country, and visiting the nearest farm-houses, while the other followed the winding of the river, alone, with the view of meeting the companion at some distant point and hearing the report of each other's adventures,—how the farmer praised the coolness of his wells, and his wife offered the stranger a draught of milk. For though the country was so new, and the inhabitants unobserved and unexplored by us (shut in between the steep banks that still and sunny day), we did not have to travel far to find where men inhabited like wild bees and [10]