MIKE FINK, THE KEEL-BOATMAN. 183 



party for Mike Fink, and they had risked their lives, 

 one and all, that he might with certainty be sacrificed. 



Nearly a thousand miles of swamp had been thread- 

 ed, large and swift running rivers had been crossed, 

 hostile tribes passed through by Joe and his friends, 

 that they might revenge the fearful insult of destroy- 

 ing, without the life^ the sacred scalp-lock. 



