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After his strange proposal to the hunters, the leader of the pirates retook, at his best speed, the road to his den.
But he was too much accustomed to the life of the prairies not to suspect that several of his enemies would follow his track at a distance. Therefore, he had put in practice, to mislead them, all the tricks which his inventive mind could furnish with him, making _detours_ without number, retracing incessantly his steps, or, as it is vulgarly said, going back ten yards to advance one.