CHAPTER 6: Tracks From The Battlefield.

SUMMARY

Three days after the massacre Heyward, Munro and the Mohicans return to the Fort to find Cora and Alice, but they believe that they are dead. After a while, Uncas found a piece of clothing of Cora. They continued looking for clues and found tracks of Magua, the book of hymns of Gamut and an earring of Alice. Munro realizes that they aren’t dead but they are prisoners of the Hurons.

They decide spend the night in the ruins of the Fort. In midnight, appears a Huron, he shoots and almost gives to Chingachgook but Uncas leaves to seek him and kills him. During the night, they decide that they will follow Magua’s tracks to find the girls, they will go in canoe.

In the morning, they go to the river and ride in the canoe, then begin to paddle. They arrive at a site where there are small islands, in one of the islands there is smoke and they realize that there are Hurons. Unfortunately, the Hurons see them and launch to the attack, but they manage to escape and reach the bank. 

VOCABULARY

• Leather: cuero (noun) “I have a new leather jacket”:
• Grim: desolador (adjetive) “The landscape was grim”.
• Lifeless: sin vida (adjective) “When they found him she was already lifeless”.
• Briefly: brevemente (adverb) “I saw the rainbow briefly and then it’s disappeared”.
• Crawled (crawl): arrastrarse (verb) “My cousin doesn’t know walk, he prefers crawl”.
• Inches: pulgada (noun).
• Lifting up (lift): levantando (verb) “You should lift up your hand when you want talk in class”.
• Paddle: remar (verb) “He doesn’t paddle because he broke his arm the last week”.
• Chase: persecución (noun) “Did you see the chase on the news?”.