approach, he shouldered his own burden, and glided in among the trees without waiting to be spoken to. Mabel, her husband, and June, all watched the form of the Pathfinder, in the hope of receiving a parting gesture, or a stolen glance of the eye; but he did not look back. Once or twice they thought they saw his head shake, as one trembles in bitterness of spirit; and a toss of the hand was given, as if he knew that he was watched; but a tread whose vigor no sorrow could enfeeble soon bore him out of view, and he was lost in the depths of the forest.

Neither Jasper nor his wife ever beheld the Pathfinder again. They remained for another year on the banks of Ontario; and then the pressing solicitations of Cap induced them to join him in New York, where Jasper eventually became a successful and respected merchant. Thrice Mabel received valuable presents of furs, at intervals of years; and her feelings told her whence they came, though no name accompanied the gift. Later in life still, when the mother of several youths, she had occasion to visit the interior, and found herself on the banks of the Mohawk, accompanied by her sons, the eldest of whom was capable of being her protector. On that occasion she observed a man in a singular guise, watching her in the distance, with an intentness that induced her to inquire into his pursuits and character. She was told he was the most renowned hunter of that portion of the State - it was after the Revolution — a being of great purity of character, and of as marked peculiarities; and that he was known in that region of country by the name of the Leather-Stocking. Further than this Mrs. Western could not ascertain; though the distant glimpse and singular deportment of this unknown hunter gave her a sleepless night, and cast a shade of melancholy over her still lovely face, that lasted many a day.

As for June, the double loss of husband and tribe produced the effect that Pathfinder had foreseen. She died in the cottage of Mabel, on the shores of the lake;

and Jasper conveyed her body to the island, where he interred it by the side of that of Arrowhead.

Lundie lived to marry his ancient love, and retired, a war-worn and battered veteran: but his name has been rendered illustrious in our own time, by the deeds of a younger brother, who succeeded to his territorial title, which, however, was shortly after merged in one earned by his valor on the ocean.

APPENDIX.

NOTE A.

"Indians of the well-known tribe of the Tuscaroras." Page 2. Cusick, the Tuscarora, gives the following account of his tribe: "According to our traditions of many centuries, the red men were led by a certain man who stood highest in dignity to the Supreme Being, the Holder of Heaven, called Tharonyawagon. He divided the rivers and country among them, and instructed them in modes of living and customs and ceremonies. The Tuscaroras were descended from the Iroquois. They wandered southward to what is now North Carolina. They kept up their alliance with the Five Nations. In 1712 the Tuscaroras attacked the whites on the Roanoke, and killed many. Captain Barnwell then defeated them, and soon after they removed northward, and joined their kindred the Five Nations. The Oneidas gave them lands in their own territory."

In 1708 the Tuscaroras held the country between the Neuse and Taw Rivers, and were supposed to number twelve hundred warriors, in fifteen towns. In 1711 they murdered Lawson, the surveyor, whose purposes they considered inimical to their rights as owners of the soil, and in one day, September, 1711, they murdered one hundred and thirty whites. They were attacked and defeated by Captain Barnwell, of South Carolina, at the head of six hundred militia, and six hundred friendly Indians. Six hundred Tuscaroras were made prisoners. Peace followed, but was soon broken. In 1712, Colonel Moore was sent against them with a force chiefly composed of southern Indians. In March, 1712, he took their principal fort of Naharuke, and two thirds of their warriors were made prisoners; six hundred were given as slaves to the South Carolina Indians. Peace followed, and the remaining third of the tribe fled to the northward, in 1714-1715, and were received as a sixth nation by the Iroquois Confederacy.

NOTE B.

"Ontario!' repeated the Arrowhead, with emphasis." Page 8. The French called Ontario "The Lake of the Iroquois," and at a later day "Lake Frontenac," from the fort near the outlet. With the Indians it bore different names, in their different dialects. "Cadaracqui was a name it bore among the red men for several generations after the English took possession of New York. The signification of Ontario is said to be

"the beautiful lake." The original word is reported to have been Skanandario, in the Mohawk dialect, and Ontario to be a derivative from this.

"Pathfinder." Page 13.

NOTE C.

The name given to Natty, in this romance, was entirely an invention of the author. But, by a singular coincidence, a title somewhat similar was actually borne by an Indian warrior in 1746. During that year Governor Clinton invited the Five Nations to a council at Albany; only three warriors appeared; one of these, an Oneida brave, made a formal speech to the governor, and presented him with two French scalps, taken at noonday, at the gates of Crown Point. This hero received in reward for his prowess, a laced hat, a laced coat, and a silver gorget. The warrior then requested an additional recompense. He begged that as a title of honor and as an especial reward for his having been the first in this campaign to strike a blow against the enemy, he might hereafter be known as the "Opener of the Path." This brave, the path-opener, continued a faithful ally of the English throughout the war.

NOTE D.

"Fort Stanwix, the last military station on the Mohawk." Page 31. It was proposed to build a fort at the carrying place between the Mohawk and Wood Creek, quite early in the last century. In 1737 the step was considered anew, but it was not until after Oswego had been taken by the French that the colonial government actually built a fort on this ground. The task was intrusted to Brigadier-General Stanwix, and the work received his name. It dates from the period of the rebuilding of Fort Oswego, by the English, in 1758.

A city has now arisen on the same ground, to which the name of Rome has been most absurdly misapplied. Stanwix would have been a true and just name. There is a sort of treachery in this misapplication of grand and ancient historical names to small and new American villages; a treachery which is punished by the air of ridicule thrown over every American map by this means. There is something akin to historical forgery in such a course.

NOTE E.

"One of the canoes of bark which the Indians are in the habit of constructing." Page 32.

Even as late as 1808, when Lieutenant Wolsey and his party were at Oswego, Indian canoes were frequently seen on the rivers and lakes. During the War of 1812 they were used in Canada by the officers and soldiers of the British army. General Brock, on hearing of the declaration of war, set out in a birch canoe for Lower Canada. And many years later they were used by the Northwest Company for the fur trade, as the boats best adapted to the waters of a forest region. These trading-canoes were thirty feet long, and six feet wide. The head and stern were pointed.

The frame was made of small pieces of very light wood; the bark exterior was cut into slips, scarcely more than an eighth of an inch in thickness, and sewed together with threads of twisted fibres from the root of the black spruce. For greater strength narrow strips of bark were also added inside when needed. The joints were made water-tight by vegetable gum, which became very hard. Not one nail was used. Each of these trading-canoes, still occasionally used, it is said, weighs about five hundred pounds. The lading is made into packages, amounting to about five tons burden. Each has a crew of eight or ten men. Until quite lately some fifty of these canoes would set out from the St. Lawrence, move up the Ottawa to the Southwest Branch, thence through Lake Nipissing, to French River, and into Lake Huron; along the north shore of the Narrows of St. Mary's, into Lake Superior, along its northern coast to Grand Portage - - a distance of eleven hundred miles in these frail Indian skiffs!

NOTE F.

"The bowl of the pipe was of soapstone." Page 46.

The oldest pipes among the Iroquois tribes were of pottery; the better sort were of a black pottery of so fine a polish as to look like stone. Some of the bowls of these black pipes were fronted with a human face, or with a wolf's or dog's head, very well shaped. At a later day they cut their pipe bowls out of soapstone, carving them very neatly. Reeds were generally used for stem-pieces, to which the bowls were attached by strings. They called their pipes "Ah-so-qua-ta."

NOTE G.

"The howl of a distant wolf." Page 103.

Wolves were abundant in the forests of New York until the close of the last century. There appear to be few left in the State to-day - and these are confined entirely to the wildest mountain tracts.

It is remarkable how very rapidly the wild animals have disappeared in this country. In Europe, even in tracts of country which have been civilized and well peopled for nearly two thousand years, the wolves are still troublesome. In France wolves and bears and wild boars are by no means rare in the mountainous regions. Fifty years of civilization seem sufficient for the entire destruction of the bear and wolf in this part of the world. Can it be possible that the numbers of these creatures were originally much less in North America than in Europe?

The American wolf is rather larger than that of Europe.

NOTE H.

"I never yet could see any beauty in a clouded barrel.”

"Lord Howe thought otherwise, sergeant; and he was accounted a good soldier!" Page 136.

"When Lord Howe was preparing his regiment for the attack on Ticonderoga he issued some stern regulations. He forbade all displays of gold and scarlet in the rugged march they were about to undertake,