Excerpt from The Last of the Mohicans, Vol. 3 of 3: A Narrative of 1757 Gathering no encouragement from this startling presage, of the nature of the scru tiny he was likely to undergo from the more mature judgments of the men, there was an instant when the young soldier would gladly have retreated: It was, how ever, too, late to appear'even to hesitate. The cry of the children had drawn a dozen warriors to the door of the nearest lodge, where they stood, clustered in a darkehd savage groupe, gravely awaiting the nearer approach of those who had thus unexpect edly come among them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.