Adventure and adventurers > Away in the wilderness, or, Life among the red Indians and fur-traders of North America

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AWAY. IN THE WILDERNESS.
to his companions, and he continued to mutter
and shake his head for some minutes, while he
knocked the ashes out of his pipe. Having re¬
filled and re-lighted it, he drew his blanket over
his shoulder, laid his head upon a tuft of grass,
and continued to smoke until he fell asleep, and
allowed the pipe to fall from his lips.
The Indian followed his example, with this , dif¬
ference, that he laid aside his pipe, and drew the
blanket over his head and under his feet, and
wrapped it round Mm in such a way that he re¬
sembled a man sewed up in a sack.
Heywood was thus compelled to shut his sketch¬
book ; so he also wrapped himself in his blanket,
and was soon sound asleep.
The camp-fire gradually sank low. Once or
twice the end of a log fell, sending up a bright
flame and a shower of sparks, which, for a few
seconds, lighted up the scene again and revealed
the three slumbering figures. But at last the fire
died out altogether, and left the encampment in
such thick darkness that the sharpest eye would
have failed to detect the presence of man in that
distant part of the lone wilderness.