about noon
So we paddles up to 'em and found as they were a lot of Wyandots whose hunting-grounds lay up by Lake Superior . In course I did n't ask no questions as to whar they was going , but jest mentioned as we was on our way down to Detroit . ` We 're going that way , too , ' the chief said , ` and 'll be glad to have our white brothers with us . ' So we paddled along together until , about noon , they landed . Nothing was said to us as how we were prisoners , but we could see as how we was jest as much captives as ef we 'd been tied with buckskin ropes . `` Jack and me talked it over and agreed as it was no manner o ' use trying to make our escape , but that as long as they chose to treat us as guests we 'd best seem perfectly contented and make no show of considering as they was on the war-path ; although , seeing as they had no women or children with 'em , a baby could have known as they were up to no good . `` The next morning they started again at daybreak , and after paddling some hours landed and hid away their canoes and started on foot .