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Now night fell, and Eurypylus knew that he could not win the wall in the dark, so he withdrew his men, and they built great fires, and camped upon the plain. The case of the Greeks was now like that of the Trojans after the death of Hector. They buried Machaon and the other chiefs who had fallen, and they remained within their ditch and their wall, for they dared not come out into the open plain.
The medicine shall be a bull's head and a robe. All the persons who are to be 'Bulls' shall wear them when they dance." Great was the joy of the people, when the man returned with his daughter. He called a council of the chiefs, and told them all that had happened.
Twelve hundred Indians, led by their "town chiefs" among whom were the old warrior and the old statesman of their nation, Oconostota and Attakullakulla came to the treaty grounds and were received by Henderson and his associates and several hundred white men who were eager for a chance to settle on new lands.
Next day the conference continued, and toward evening the Brule chiefs, after having spoken a great deal, abruptly demanded fifty horses and two hundred ponies as the price for Chaf-fa-ly-a. The friends of Souk were a good deal surprised at the extravagant demand of the Brule, it being about three times more than they expected to give.
They have conspired against me, it is true; they consented to the slaying of seven of my most trusted chiefs and counsellors; and they would have brought anarchy upon the people; therefore must they also be punished.
His Majesty now presented our party with a leg, shoulder, breast, and small saddle, and afterwards divided what remained among his chiefs, reserving the head for himself, which, after being well scorched, he ordered to be taken to his hut. A more curious part of this singular feast remains to be described.
The pride of ancestry, which rankled in the bosom of the ancient gentry, was more openly expressed by their ladies, and was, moreover, imbittered not a little by the political feuds of the time, for most of the Southern chiefs were friends to the authority of the Queen, and very jealous of the power of Murray.
I got quite a number of arm bones and leg bones of great chiefs, may be, who had fought savagely in that fearful battle in the old days, when blood flowed like wine where we now stood and wore the choicest of them out on Oahu afterward, trying to make him go.
This upper house is made up of the princes of the royal family who are of age; the descendants of the formerly sovereign families of Hohenzollern- Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen; chiefs of the princely houses recognized by the Congress of Vienna; heads of the territorial nobility formed by the King; representatives of the universities; burgomasters of towns with more than fifty thousand inhabitants, and an unlimited number of persons nominated by the King for life or for a limited period.
Seeing on her way one of the townsmen passing who was being carried off wounded, she said, "Alas! I never see a Frenchman's blood but my hair stands up on my head!" It was some of the Orleannese themselves who, without consulting their chiefs, had made a sortie and attacked the Bastille St. Loup, the strongest held by the English on this side.