from his view, and there, to his amazement, he beheld a

band of about a hundred human beings advancing on

horseback slowly through the snow.

CHAPTER XVIII.

A surprise, and a piece of good news--The fur-traders--Crusoe
proved, and the Peigans pursued

.

Dick's first and most natural impulse, on beholding

this band, was to mount his horse and fly, for

his mind naturally enough recurred to the former rough

treatment he had experienced at the hands of Indians.