Magua has taken to the forest with Cora as a hostage. Uncas prepares to follow and fight. Heyward has made a plan to rescue the sisters who have fallen into the hands of Magua.

The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye -- live in peace alongside British colonists.