CHAPTER 4: Safe Again

SUMMARY

Just at the worst moment Haw-eye appears and kills the Huron against which fights Heyward. He comes with all the others Mohicans and the Hurons attack them. There is a great battle and all the Hurons die, except Magua who once again manages to escape.

When everything ends everyone is untied, they eat a little and start walking to Fort William. On the way, they stop in an abandoned house, which built by the Mohicans, to rest. A group of Hurons appear, but they are frightened by the dead who are buried in this place and they leave.

They continue forward, this time they meet a Frenchman and he shoots them, but they run away toward the Fort William which is already close. Finally, they reach their destination, Cora and Alice call his father and they enter the Fort, at last are safe. 

VOCABULARY

• Beat: vencer (verb) “We couldn’t beat in the fight”.
• Untie: desatar (verb) “I can’t untie knots of the shoes”.
• Slope: ladera (noun) “We go to the house which is in the foot the slope”.
• Deer:  ciervo (noun) “When I was in the camp I saw a little deer”.
• Spring: manantial (noun) “In this mountain there is the best spring in the world”.
• Thick: espeso (adjective) “This mud is very thick, be careful”
• Roof: techo (noun) “There are a lot of nests in the roof”.