one o'clock
I would engage to travel as straight as the best Indian of them all , by looking at my compass once in half an hour . '' Susquesus was seated near enough to us three to over hear our conversation , and he understood English perfectly , though he spoke it in the usual , clipped manner of an Indian . I thought I could detect a covert gleam of contempt in his dark countenance , at this boast of Guert 's ; but he made no remark . We finished our meal , rested our legs ; and , when our watches told us it was one o'clock , we rose in a body to resume our march . We were renewing the priming of our rifles , a precaution each man took twice every day , to prevent the effects of the damps of the woods , when the Onondago quietly fell in behind Guert , patiently waiting the leisure of the latter . `` We are all ready , Trackless , '' cried the Albanian `` give us the lead and the step , as before . '' `` No '' -- answered the Indian .