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"Corporal Flint, who seemed to have a knowledge of the Indian character, had endeavored so to anger the Indians by taunt and invective that some brave would put an arrow into his heart, or dash his brains out with a stone ax. "In this he failed. Bough of Oak controlled his braves and Corporal Flint was lashed to the saplings.
But scarcely has the first round been drunk to the toast of "great deeds," when Eyatonkawee is upon them, her great knife held high in her wrinkled left hand, her tomahawk in the right. Her black eyes gleam as she declaims in a voice strong, unterrified: "Look! look! brothers and husbands the Sacs and Foxes are upon us! Behold, our braves are surprised they are unprepared!
As he advanced, his three companions followed him at about fifty yards in the rear. He was one hundred and fifty yards from the Hillmen before they made out what he said, and then one of the young braves, resenting it as an insult to his chief, shot an arrow at him.
"At the beginning," said Grace sarcastically, and reached for her candy box, grimacing to find it empty. "Thank you," said Allen courteously. "Well, as you know, we four husky braves meandered from the island one bright morning in the early part of the week to seek our fortune, as it were, in the city of promise." "Yes, that's all it does do," Roy put in pessimistically. "Promise!"
The old chief, Crow Wing's father, was dead, and the youth himself aspired to be the leader of his people. From a word or two he let drop and from his manner of speaking, Enoch judged that the older men of the tribe had some doubt of Crow Wing's ability to govern the braves; but evidently the youth had strong hopes of gaining their confidence and that by some act in the near future.
The braves have had a White Dog feast; and the Indians have assembled from far and near to fight for Big Bear. They attack in half an hour." "Can they hold out inside?" "Twenty-four men against five hundred!" the chief replied. "First they will cut a breach in the stockade; then they will go in and burn down the Fort. Big Bear has asked the Inspector to surrender, but he has refused."
Picture to yourselves the bygone days in which such a canoe, filled with painted braves, stole along in the shadows fringing the bank of some noble stream. Portray to your own minds such a marauding band stealing down stream upon some settlement, there to fall upon our hardy pioneers and put them to the death!"
Then he drave at the lord of the Banu Nabhan braves; with his lance lunged him and from his destrier hurled him; nor was the time of mid-afternoon prayer come before he had slain the most part of the foe and put to rout the rest and rescued the captives; whereupon he returned to the camp in triumph, bearing the head of Al-Hamal on the point of his lance and improvising these couplets,
It was the last day of the convocation, and it had been arranged that a great foot-race should take place on the open ground near the river, between the younger braves and the young men of the settlement.
Keokuk's birth Kills a Sioux when fifteen years old Prevents the abandonment of the Sac village Bold manoeuvre with the Sioux Perils his life for the safety of his people Speech to the Menominies at Prairie des Chiens Called upon to lead his braves to join in the Black Hawk war Allays the excitement of his people on this subject Deposed from his post as head chief and a young man elected in his place Re-established in power Delivers up his nephew to the whites to be tried for murder Letter to the Governor of Illinois Council at Washington in 1837 Retorts upon the Sioux His visit to Boston His return home His personal appearance And his character as a war and peace chief.
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