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Charlevoix says: "Il a ete forme du terme Hiro, ou Hero, qui signifie J'ai dit, et par lequel ces sauvages finissent tous leur discours, comme les Latins faisoient autrefois par leur Dixi; et de Koue, qui est un cri tantot de tristesse, lorsqu'on le prononce en trainant, et tantot de joye, quand on le prononce plus court." Hist. de la N. F., I. 271.
"Nothing this morning, Hiro," I managed to choke out, "and, Hiro, make ready my bag, the small one, for a journey." "S-s-s-s!" hissed Hiroshimi, which was his way of saying, "Yes, sir, very well, sir."
So, somewhat crowded as the Sea Rover was, with three boys and a dog, not to mention our supplies and our armament, at last we were afloat with crew and cargo aboard. Hiro was not surprised, and asked no questions. With the salaam with which he announced dinner, he now announced his own departure for his duties at my deserted house; and as he walked he never turned around for curious gaze.
<*the secretary of the treasury of the goddess Neith, or Athena as Herodotus calls her: ho grammatiste:s to:n hiro:n xre:mato:n te:s Athe:naie:s> treasury at Sais, in Egypt.
It was Cook's carpenter who was building a house for a chief, a friend of Cook's, and lost all his tools during the visit of the high priest of the god Hiro and his acolytes. Hiro was the first king in their myths, and, until Christianity came, the god of business.
He cast on me a reproachful gaze, however, as he took from Lafitte's hand the bared blade of the old Samurai sword, and noted the ancient inscription on blade and scabbard as he sheathed it reverently. "What does it say, Hiro?" I asked of him. "Very old talk, Honorable," answered Hiroshimi. "It say, 'Oh, Honorable Gentleman who carry me, I invite you to make high and noble adventurings."
Here Bennie drew with a burnt match on the back of an envelope a diagram of something which resembled a doughnut in a chianti flask. Thornton scratched his head. "Yes," he said, "but that's an old principle, isn't it? Why does Hiro what's his name call it thermic induction?" "Oriental imagination, probably," replied Bennie.
The Hurons and the Iroquois are said to have received their names from the French the former in allusion to the French word hure, a head of hair, these savages being distinguished by a singular mode of dressing theirs; the latter from their frequent repetition of the word "hiro," "I have said it," the ordinary termination of the warriors' harangues.
"Let me carry it, Hiro," said I; and I tucked it under my own arm. "Good!" exclaimed L'Olonnois. "Then you are going with us? And did you write the letters that you promised us?" "I always keep my word." "And it'll be all right back home about mother and the boat? I'll give you my six dollars!" "There is no need.
Why do they dig up the hatchet, hazarding the only thing they have their lives? Because they are led by a man who told the rebel Congress that the covenant chain which the King gave to the Mohawks is still unspotted by dishonor, unrusted by treachery, unbroken, intact, without one link missing! Gentlemen, I give you Joseph Brant, war-chief of the Mohawk nation! Hiro!"
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