After taking all these precautions, we rose and were on foot against thetime of moonshine, posted ourselves in a place as distant from the hutsof the beavers, as from the causey or bank, which dammed up the watersof the place where they were. I took my fusil and pouch, according to mycustom of never travelling without them. But each Indian was only totake with him a little hatchet, which all travellers in this countrycarry with them. I took the oldest of my retinue, after having pointedout to the others the place of ambush, and the manner in which thebranches of trees we had cut were to be set to cover us. I then wenttowards the middle of the dam, with my old man, who had his hatchet, andordered him softly to make a gutter or trench, a foot wide, which hebegan on the outside of the causey or dam, crossing it quite to thewater. This he did by removing the earth with his hands. As soon as thegutter was finished, and the water ran into it, we speedily, and withoutany noise, retired to our place of ambush, in order to observe thebehaviour of the beavers in repairing this breach.
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