However, he soon noticed that when Lorraine was playing with the child, her gaze would always drift towards the indigenous woman.
This gave Matthew a headache.
Fortunately, Old Lucky had been chatting with the young men in the local language, and the latter did not notice Lorraine's presumptuous gaze from the beginning to the end.
Finally.
Old Lucky walked over and pulled away the reluctant Lorraine.
"They said that you looked like a good person, so they were willing to lend us a small hunting cabin for the night. I wanted to continue on the journey, but the Roding River at night is indeed not as safe as during the day."
Thus, the three of them rested for another night in the riverside hut.
The next morning.
The young men came as promised. They came to a bush outside the hut and carried out four canoes of different sizes. They were placed into the river from the dock one by one.