human
I do think it possible, said Woodchuck, with a grim smile;
gpt
You are indeed a noble-hearted man, Captain Brooks, if I understand you rightly, to go and give yourself up to these savages, to save your young friend. Nobody could venture to propose such a thing to you, because his having fallen into their hands was not your fault, and life is dear to every one; but--
human
Stay, stay, stay! cried Woodchuck,
gpt
But I am afraid that in the winter your plan of getting information would not succeed very well, said Lord H----.
human
In the first place, the Indian women are not likely to go very far from their wigwams, amongst which you would hardly venture; and, in the next place, your feet would be easily tracked in the snow; for these Indians, I am told, are most cunning and pertinacious hunters, and will follow any tracks they see for miles and miles.
gpt
I've dodged an Ingian afore now, said Captain Brooks, with a look of some self-importance,
human
Well, they've got Freemasons among the Ingians--that's to say, not exactly Freemasons, but what comes much to the same thing:[1] people who have got a secret among themselves, and who are bound to help each other in good or evil, in the devil's work or God's, against their own nation, or their own tribe, or their own family; and who, on account of some devilry or other, dare not, for the soul of them, refuse what a brother asks them. It's a superstition at the bottom of it, and it's very strange; but so it is.