about midnight
The very completeness of it had made him rest as much in two hours as another would have rested in six . He resumed his flight , taking with him venison steaks that he had cooked before he put out his fire , and he did not stop until the night was well advanced and the stars had sprung out in a dusky sky . Then he chose another dense thicket and , lying down in it , was quickly asleep . He awoke about midnight and saw a faint light shining through the woods . He judged that it was a long distance away , but he resolved to see what made it , being sure in advance that it was the glow of an Indian camp fire . He approached cautiously , looked from the crest of a low hill into a snug little valley , and saw that his surmise was true . About fifty warriors sat or lay around a smouldering fire , and he inferred from their dress and paint that they were Shawnees .