The river was here wide enough to enable us to keep beyond range of their arrows, and we continued our course paddling along close to the western bank.  After going a short distance we saw ahead of us a lake, which we should have to cross.  The Indians had disappeared, and I hoped we had seen the last of them, when Corney shouted out that he had caught sight of them running alone; the shore of the lake to double round it. Their object in so doing was evident, for on the opposite side of the upper river entered the lake, rounding a point by a narrow passage, and this point they hoped to gain before we could get through, so that they might stop our progress.