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.