The anchorage lay between two projecting headlands; to
the outermost extremities of which were to be seen,
overhanging the lake, the stately birch and pine, connected
at their base by an impenetrable brushwood, extending to
the very shore, and affording the amplest concealment,
except from the lake side and the banks under which the
schooner was moored. From the first quarter, however,
little danger was incurred, as any canoes the savages
might send in discovery of their course, must unavoidably
be seen the moment they appeared over the line of the
horizon, while, on the contrary, their own vessel, although
much larger, resting on and identified with the land,
must be invisible, except on a very near approach. In
the opposite direction they were equally safe; for, as
Mullins had truly remarked, none, save a few wandering
hunters, whom chance occasionally led to the spot, were
to be met with in a part of the country that lay so
completely out of the track of communication between the
fortresses. It was, however, but to double the second
headland in their front, and they came within view of
the Sinclair, the head of which was situated little more
than a league beyond the spot where they now lay.
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