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"This is a peaceful place," said Cardross, narrowing eyes watching the lake through the haze of his pipe. "I almost hate to disturb it with a gun-shot; but if we stay here we've got to eat." And, turning toward the guides' table where they lounged over their after-dinner pipes: "Coacochee, my little daughter has never shot a wild turkey.
"There seems to be a fire, yonder," he said; "and somebody seated before it; your Seminole, I think. By Jove, Shiela, he's certainly picturesque!" A sullen-eyed Indian rose as they rode up, his turban brilliant in the declining sunshine, his fringed leggings softly luminous as woven cloth of gold. "He a mah, Coacochee!" said the girl in friendly greeting. "It is good to see you, Little Tiger.
The people of the East salute the Uchee Seminoles." The Indian answered briefly and with dignity, then stood impassive, not noticing Hamil. "Mr. Hamil," she said, "this is my old friend Coacochee or Little Tiger; an Okichobi Seminole of the Clan of the Wind; a brave hunter and an upright man."
The red hand and the white hand tightened and fell apart. A moment later Gray came galloping up with Eudo Stent. "How are you, Coacochee!" he called out; "glad to see you again! We saw the pine tops blue a mile back." To which the Seminole replied with composure in terse English. But for Mr.
"I'd as soon doubt the stars in their courses as the Seminole, Coacochee. And you will see very soon, now, because we are within a mile of camp." "Within a mile!" he scoffed. "How do you know? For the last two hours these woods and glades have all looked precisely alike to me.
They are proud, reticent, sensitive, suspicious people; and there are few cases on record where any such thing as friendship has existed between a Seminole and a white man. This is a genuine case; Coacochee is really devoted to dad."
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