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"In a few days I shall have to bid my kind friends farewell and go back to my duties on board her." As there was a fine breeze the ship rapidly approached, and as I had no doubt that she was the "Eagle," I went back to the tent to tell Captain Bland that she was in sight, as also to describe to him the schooner I had seen.
In a widely spread Norse tale a very small goblin sustains a long and obstinate contest with an immense white bear. The Norsemen invoked the Eagle Giant of the Winds, as Scott has shown in his song of the Reimkennar. The same being is invoked in this legend. The whelp, as an omen of evil, is mentioned in the Edda. In this tale he causes forgetfulness.
For the eagle was the bird of Jove, the oak was his sacred tree, and the face of his image standing in his four-horse chariot on the Capitol was in like manner regularly dyed red on festivals; indeed, so important was it deemed to keep the divine features properly rouged that one of the first duties of the censors was to contract for having this done.
The Indians noted his condition with scornful eyes, and Eagle Claw, advancing from the rest, said: "How now, does the coyote tremble because he is asked to join the council with his brethren?" The mocking words brought Swanson's pluck back again, and drawing himself to his full height he answered: "You red devil! Don't brother me. Drop that beating around the bush and out with the truth."
His mention of Mars and Bellona, and his comparison of Marlborough to the eagle that bears the thunder of Jupiter, are all puerile and unaffecting; and yet more despicable is the long tale told by Louis in his despair of Brute and Troynovante, and the teeth of Cadmus, with his similes of the raven and eagle and wolf and lion.
Laheen the Eagle then spread out her wings and rising above the mist of the waterfall flew away. The King of Ireland's Son took the wheel out of the shallow water and set it rolling before him. It went on without his touching it again.
"But look at the Buzzard" cried the younger boy, "she's ahead of us!" It was true their chief rival on a lower course than the Golden Eagle had indeed forged about half a mile to the fore. From time to time the boys could see the black figure of her operator turn about and gaze back to gauge the distance he was ahead.
Then, where the cleft of blue smote the rocks with sunlight, the doors of the mountains would open again to larger life in another Valley. The horses were no longer trotting. They were climbing and blowing and pausing where the trail of the Pass took sharp turns, back and forward, up and up, till the eagle was circling below.
The camp in due course shed its white wings and became a dust-hued fort. As seen by an eagle soaring overhead, its shape is that of a five-pointed star, and on four of the points stood the officers' quarters, while on the fifth were the magazine and place d'armes.
This Hindu story of the lost slipper is met with again in a legend of the ancient Greeks, which tells that while a beautiful woman, named Rhodope or the rosy-cheeked was bathing, an eagle picked up one of her slippers and flew away with it, and carried it off to Egypt, and dropped it in the lap of the King of that country, as he sat at Memphis on the judgment-seat.
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