Every tree trunk was a breastwork ready prepared for battle; every bush, every moss-covered boulder, was a defence against assault, from behind which, themselves unseen, they watched with fierce derision the movements of their clumsy white enemy.
Roosevelt describes the natural advantages that the forest provided to Native Americans in combat situations against white settlers.
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