At their hospitable boards I occasionally met with partners, and clerks, and hardy fur traders from the interior posts; men who had passed years remote from civilized society, among distant and savage tribes, and who had wonders to recount of their wide and wild peregrinations, their hunting exploits, and their perilous adventures and hair-breadth escapes among the Indians.

The savage cast a look at the other, which, notwithstanding the dim light, was sufficiently indicative of implacable hostility.

As the savage eyes met his, the beast emitted a frightful roar and then he charged.