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 sealp-lock. 
