Re: Am I Just 'Nitpicking'?

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: : : What??? 'No Messages Posted Today'???  Well, I'll soon fix that!!

: : : 'Anyone looking for our trail would see it as a sign we passed that way'.

: : : I was forced to watch 'Last of the Mohicans' again a few nights ago. (Just doing my 'prep' work for the Gathering, dontcha know!!) and again, as usual, I found a certain scene just annoyed me no end!!  Perhaps someone can reassure me that I'm just thinking of it in a distorted manner and that it IS accurate.

: : : Picture our three heroes, having come across the burnt out Cabin of John and Alexandria Cameron. Their friends are dead and our heroes are hurting... but they move on.  Cora demands that the bodies be buried and Hawkeye snaps at her that 'they stay as they lay'.  Later he explains that had they buried the corpses, 'anyone looking for our trail would see it as a sign we passed that way'.  

: : : Okay - tell me I'm being stupid here but... wouldn't the line Chingachgood drew around the mocassin print, indicate that someone had passed by that way??  Where ONE mocassin can leave a print, wouldn't the prints of our 'heroes', surrounding the original print, also show up??  And - wouldn't Chingachgook, the man from whom Hawkeye learned all he knows, know better????  And Hawkeye snaps at Cora that they can't do anything to let their 'followers' know where they've been/where they are??? They may as well have erected a sign saying 'we wuz here'!!

: : : 'It's illogical, captain'!! I just don't believe they would do that and I find that scene quite incongruous.  Surely that wouldn't be consistent with a native's normal 'leave no trail' behaviour - or their skills.  

: : : Please, someone just tell me - it wouldn't happen like that - or I'm just nitpicking!!

: : : Kate.

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: : Hi Kate!

: : Good point!  Something else to consider.  Wouldn't Uncas be leaving tracks all over the place after walking in all the soot left by the fire in the cabin?

: : Jeri

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: Yup, yup, yup, Jeri! Good point!!!

: AND - wouldn't that be a clue to the fact that these 'new' mocassin prints WERE other than Huron? Wouldn't it be likely that a raiding party, not getting to do the honours of killing the inhabitants of the cabin, would take some of the goods still lying around, instead?  I can see that the 'original' war party would be moving fast and would leave the 'clothes, tools, mirrors, inside' but the second lot might be not be in such a rush and would lift SOMETHING.  The fact that it IS all still inside, could possibly mean that the new mocassin prints belong to allies of the cabin inhabitants, and don't wish to leave clues as to their identities.  Well... it's POSSIBLE...

: Kate.


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