rain fell upon them.

It passed directly between the Camanchee Indians

and their intended victims, placing between them a

barrier which it would have taken days to cut through.

The storm blew for an hour, then it travelled onward in

its might, and was lost in the distance. Whence it

came and whither it went none could tell, but far as

the eye could see on either hand an avenue a quarter

of a mile wide was cut through the forest. It had

levelled everything with the dust; the very grass was