Accidents > Dangers of the deep, or, Narratives of shipwreck and adventure at sea

SUFFEBINGS AMONG THE INDIANS. 199
press their eagerness by barking every time
they raise their heads above the water to
breathe. The net is held by two Indians,
who get into the water ; then the dogs, tak¬
ing a large compass, dive after the fish, and
drive them into the net; but it is only in par¬
ticular places that the fish are taken in this
manner. At the close of the evening, the
women brought in two fish, which served us
for supper; and then we reposed ourselves as
before. Here we remained all the next day;
and the morning after embarked again, and
rowed till noon; then landing, we descried
the canoes of the Indian men, who had been
some time expected from an expedition they
had been upon. This was soon to make a
great alteration in the situation of my affairs,
a presage of which I could read in the me¬
lancholy countenance of my young hostess.
She endeavoured to express herself in very
earnest terms to me ; but I had not yet ac¬
quired a competent knowledge of the Indian
language to understand her.
As soon as the men were landed, she and
the old Indian woman went up, not without
some marks of dread upon them, to an eld¬
erly Indian man, whose remarkable surly and