When she came in sight of the
pond, the place seemed unpleasantly different from Myanos
and where was the Indian camp? She did not dare to
shout; indeed, she began to wish she were home again,
but the sense of duty carried her fully fifty yards along the
pond, and then she came to an impassable rock, a sheer
bank that plainly said, "Stop!" Now she must go back
or up the bank. Her Yankee pertinacity said, "Try first
up the bank," and she began a long, toilsome ascent,
that did not end until she came out on a bigh, open rock
which, on its farther side, had a sheer drop and gave a
view of the village and of the sea.
Whatever joy she had on again seeing her bome was
speedily queued in the fearsome discovery that she was
right over the Indian camp, and the two inmates looked so
utterly, dreadfully savage that she was thankful they had
not seen her. At once she shrank back; but on recovering
sufficiently to again peer down, she saw something roasting
before the fire -- "a tiny arm with a hand that bore
five fmgers," as she afterward said, and "a sickening
horror came over her. " Yes, she had heard of such things.
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