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THE

LAST OF THE MOHICANS.



CHAPTER I.

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet in murderous contact. A wide and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist and the trained European