![]() ![]() Hawkeye says it is suspicious that Magua, a native runner, would get lost in the woods, and in confronting Magua, Hawkeye causes him to run away, deserting the band. Heyward, spotting a scout named Hawkeye, also known as Natty Bumppo and who describes himself as a “ man without a cross,” and two Mohicans (natives allied with the English and related to the Delawares) named Uncas and Chingachgook, asks them for advice in getting to the fort. The band sets off for Fort William Henry, meets up with a Christian singer of psalms named David along the path, and gets lost. This band has, for its guide, a former Mingo, or Iroquois, now allied with the Delaware natives and the English, named Magua. At its start, a young English Major named Duncan Heyward is to assist Cora and Alice Munro, daughters to Colonel Munro, as they travel from Fort Edward (commanded by General Webb) to Fort William Henry (commanded by Col. ![]() The Last of the Mohicans is set in 1757, in what is now upstate New York near Saratoga Springs, during the French and Indian War. ![]()
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