We Were Distant From The Beach About Three
Miles, And Could See Clearly The Smoke Of Several Fires; While With
Binocular Glasses We Could Make Out The Figures Of The Blacks Fishing, And
Of The Piccaninnies And Gins Romping In The Sand.
Lizzie was a sight to see, as she pointed triumphantly to the unconscious
savages, and, trembling with eagerness, tapped the butt of Dunmore's
carbine, as she whispered -
"Those fellow sit down there, brother belonging to me, plenty you shoot
'em, Marmy."
"You take us close up along of those fellow, Lizzie?" said Dunmore.
"Your Marmy, plenty close, you been shoot 'em all mine think," replied our
amiable little guide, who, enjoining the strictest silence, at once put
herself in motion, bidding us, by a sign, to follow her.
For more than an hour and a half we crept cautiously along, sometimes
crawling on all fours where the country was open, and frequently stopping,
while Lizzie went noiselessly forward and reconnoitred, before beckoning to
us to advance again. The direction in which she led us lay at the base of
the hills, which on one side bounded the little plain and its bay, and
though we could form but a crude idea of where we were going, owing to the
thickness of the undergrowth, yet it was sufficiently evident that the
young lady was one of nature's tacticians, and meditated a flank blow at
her unfortunate relatives. Proceeding, we came at last within a stone's
throw of the beach, and could hear the mimic waves rolling on the sand, at
no great distance, on our right hand.
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