CHRISTIE'S BRAVE DEFENCE OF HIS POST
DONALD FIRES THE MINE AND SAVES THE BLOCKHOUSE
HOW THE PAYMASTER NAVIGATED LAKE ERIE IN A TUB
THE PAYMASTER IN WAR-PAINT AND FEATHERS
DONALD AND THE PAYMASTER ESCAPE
IMMINENT DANGER OF THE SCHOONER GLADWYN
[Illustration: Pontiac discovers that Donald is tattooed with the Magic Circle.]
LAST CRUISE OF THE PAYMASTER'S TUB
AH-MO, THE DAUGHTER OF PONTIAC
A NIGHT OF FIGHTING AND TERROR
AN ADOPTED DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST
THE PRINCESS ANSWERS DONALD'S QUESTION
ILLUSTRATIONS
DONALD IS UNEXPECTEDLY SAVED FROM A TERRIBLE DEATH … … Frontispiece
"THESE TWO PADDLED THEIR WAY AGAINST THE SWIFT CURRENT OF THE MOHAWK"
DONALD AND HIS TWO COMPANIONS ARE PURSUED BY INDIANS
PONTIAC DISCOVERS THAT DONALD IS TATTOOED WITH THE MAGIC CIRCLE
AT WAR WITH PONTIAC
OR
THE TOTEM OF THE BEAR
A TALE OF REDCOAT AND REDSKIN
CHAPTER I
TAWTRY HOUSE
A glorious midsummer day was drawing to a close; its heat had passed; the tall forest trees, whose leaves were pleasantly rustled by the cool breeze of approaching night, flung a bridge of tremulous shadows across the surface of Loch Meg, and all nature was at peace. The tiny lake, though bearing an old-world name, was of the new world, and was one of the myriad forest gems that decked the wilderness of western New York a century and a half ago. It was embraced in a patent recently granted by the English king to his well-approved servant Graham Hester, whose bravery and wounds had won