Man in the Wilderness Page #3

We're here to explore the New America!

Dig into its pagan regions!

And we can't afford to fail.

Man must be prepared to sacrifice.

A father should give his son's life gladly.

Zach was like a son to me.

I know he'd be proud of my decision.

Our father, who art in heaven,

we commend to thee

the soul of this thy son.

Where that he may live with thee

in heavenly peace.

Forever and ever,

world without end. Amen.

I should've been there.

I should've been there.

Better wind them a minute, Captain.

Keep them coming!

Captain! Rickarees!

Rickarees!

Battle stations. Load and prime.

Fire!

Benoit!

Benoit! Fire!

At what?

I said, fire!

First time I fire at nothing.

Move off. We're changing course.

Heading north.

Right, sir.

Mount up!

What the hell was he shooting at?

Same thing he's looking at. Bass.

Come on.

There's nothing worse

than eating sick mule.

I'll take a hunk of that.

I knew a trapper once who ate his squaw.

"Well, meat's meat," he said.

Ate his squaw?

All except her fingernails.

Picked his teeth with those.

Look at him up there.

I tell you, gives me the creeps,

the way he keeps staring off.

Like he was expecting Zach Bass' ghost

to come walking out of them woods.

It ain't natural, I tell you.

Ever since he changed our course...

Yeah. But he's still our captain.

Yeah.

If Zach was alive, I mean,

if he weren't dead...

Well, you don't think

he could actually find us?

Zach's dead, Fogarty.

What are you afraid of?

I'm only afraid of what I can't see,

and I can't see what he's staring at.

Kill him.

- Get up!

- Come on, move!

Come on!

Come on. Get up!

Come on. Get up!

- Get up!

- Come on, come on!

Come on!

He's your son, Zach.

I should have been here.

There was nothing you could have done.

It was God's will.

I never much agreed with God's will.

Don't you want to meet him, Zachary?

No, not now.

One day maybe.

You raise him.

Bring him up with the gentleness

that your daughter had.

Captain?

Fogarty.

It's the men, sir.

I thought maybe you'd be interested

in knowing

what some of them's been talking about.

Like what?

Well, they've been saying

maybe we ought to burn the boat,

pack the skins on the mules,

work our way back.

What do you think?

Well, sir, I don't know

what's so important about this boat.

I mean, without it,

well, we'd be clear of the snow

and onto flat lands by now.

Mr. Fogarty, that's more than just a boat.

It's what's left of my last command.

I don't intend to see it burn.

- Now or ever.

- Yes, sir.

But when we all signed on,

we figured there was a chance.

But not the way we're headed now.

I mean, what good is all them pelts

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