midday
Several days passed away without any event of interest to tell you of . The Delaware was an excellent travelling companion , and I believe that without him the Indians would speedily have found me out , and would have left me without a top to my head . We had quitted the banks of the river , and were progressing across a wide-rolling prairie . Although the wind when it blew was keen , the sun had still at midday great power . We toiled on through the high grass with not a breath of air , hoping to get across the prairie before nightfall . We could see , from the nature of the ground , very little way on either side of us . `` Suddenly we were conscious of a hot wind blowing on our right cheeks , and then it came laden with smoke and fine dust .