The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1826-02-18
berry of the woods for the gstening eye-balls
Of prowling savage,"-but

OF proving savage,"-but
the cavalcade had not long passed, before the
branches of the bushes that formed the thicket,
were cautiously moved asundeE and human WIS.,
age, as hercely wild as savage art and unbrded
passions could make it, peered out on the retiring
footsteps Of the travellers A CLEAN of exultaton
shot across the darkly painted neaments of the in
habtant of the forest he traced the route of his
intended victims, who rode unconsciously onward !;
the light and graceful forms of the females waving
among the trees, in the curvatures of their path,
followed at each bend by the manly figure of Hey
ward, until finally, the shapeless person of the
singing master was concealed behind the number
less trunks of trees, that rose in dark lines in the
intermediate space."-[28p.
Leaving the adventurous travellers, the scene
shifts to the brink of the Hudson, near cata-
ract where we are introduced to our old friend
Leather Stocking, of the Pioneers, now called
Hawk-eye,) in the pride and vigor of his life, in
company and conversation with Chingachgook,
a veteran Delaware chief, of the &c Turtle" or
der-both IN the character Of Scouts. Chingach-
cook is eloquently holding forth upon Indian
wrongs, until he mentions the g Salt Lake,
where the waters flow up stream in the rivers"
which gives Hawk-eye the hint for an amusing
philosophical dissertation upon the tides and
their cause-but which is cut short by the arri-
val of Hayward and his party The plot already
begins to thicken, without compelling the read
er to wade through half volume of pressing
matter, by way of g clearing away the under
brush " of the subject The guide had lost his
way, and strong suspicious Of jealousy begin to
be excited, which, after private conversation
with the Scouts, are fully confirmed A plan is
laid to seize the faithless Huron, but he is too
crafty for the whole-not only GLIDING the grasp
OF Hayward, but the unerring shot Of Natty
Bumpo's rifle.
The situation of the whole party is now con-
sidered very critical, as no doubt is entertained
by Hawk eye, Chingachgook, and his son I'm
cas-, who had joined them, that the Mingoes*
were near them, and that to glut the revenge of
the Huron, who, it subsequently appears, had
been punished for some offence by Col Munro,
they were to have been betrayed by their guide
1t is now too late for them to retrace their steps
to Fort Edward, and how to provide for their
safety is the next object For this purpose, in
the twilight the horses are led into the river and
secreted behind some dragged rocks, while the
ladies with Hayward and David Gamut, are ia
ken into a canoe, and transported to rocky ca
vern, amidst the tumblng waters of the roaring
cataract. This cavern is none other than that
so well known in the island Of rock against which
to this day the waters of the Hudson foam and
dash, as they pass from the irregular falls Of
Glenn. The succeeding chapter contains high
ly wrought night scene in the cavern, and an
excellent description Of this irregular, singular,
and picturesque cataract. where the island
above mentioned-now degraded by bridge
and toll house-has evidently been worn by the
*The hostile Indians are called Hurons, Mingoes,
Maquas and Eroquois, indiferently. occasion re-