THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

CHAPTER 8: A bear to the rescue

When the light came again, Uncas was surrounded by Hurons in the middle of the hut. On the other hand, one of these Hurons told Heyward that he had to help one of their women because she was very ill. Later, Magua went into the hut and he saw that Uncas was their prisoner and told him that he will be executed the next day.

Later, one of the chiefs went with Heyward to a hill and while a bear followed them. When they arrived at the hill, they entered into a cave that had lots of passages and went to a room where was the sick woman, also were there Gamut and other women, but they went out for the cave because they thought that Heyward need space to cure the woman and the bear take off their head and seem Hawk-eye.

They went to save Alice who was in another room, but appeared Magua from another passage. It wasn't a problem because Heyward and Hawk-eye tied him and gagged him, and then they ran out of the cave. They hid Alice with a blanket and went to the forest. Gamut helped Hawk-eye to save Uncas; they came up with a plan. Gamut interchanged his clothes with Uncas. When Hawk-eye and Uncas were in the forest was when the guards noticed that the prisoner had escaped.

VOCABULARY

• Grimly: sombriamente (adverb).
• Shake: agitar (verb) 
• Growl: gruñido (noun) 
• Paws: pata (noun)
• Gagged (gag): amordazar (verb) 
• Fool: tonto (adjective)