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South of the fire, in the ravine, several horses, closely hobbled, were cropping the new grass; and between them and the tepees, lying half under a light road wagon, was an animal stretched flat and covered with blankets. "It's that horse," said the biggest brother. The Indian behind him grunted and rode ahead down the slope, and, at his approach, the circle about the camp-fire stood up.
It is pretended that the Mission of Guaja affords a very rare example of the composition of two Spanish words. The word Encaramada means things raised one upon another, from encaramar, to raise up. This missionary, learned in the Indian tongues, lived in these solitudes during eighteen years, till the expulsion of the Jesuits.
Nature seems to have been like an Indian giver, taking away the gifts as soon as they are received, The gifts of morn Ere life grows noisy and slower-footed thought Can overtake the rapture of the sense. The extinction of the early poetry and romance which gave beauty to the first view of these realities has often been accomplished by the most deliberate educational processes.
We were fortunate enough to find an old Indian more temperate than the rest, who was employed in preparing the curare poison from freshly-gathered plants. He was the chemist of the place.
The manufacturers of Spitalfields, of Norwich, of Yorkshire, and of the Western counties, considered the trade with the Eastern seas as rather injurious than beneficial to the kingdom. The importation of Indian spices, indeed, was admitted to be harmless, and the importation of Indian saltpetre to be necessary.
These were suddenly thrown open, and a number of Indian women, the wives and sisters of the deceased, rushing up the great aisle, surrounded the corpse. This was not the way, they cried, to celebrate the funeral rites of an Inca; and they declared their intention to sacrifice themselves on his tomb, and bear him company to the land of spirits.
"I could wait no longer. I drew my arrow to the head of my bow and, as the bear was standing up with his side toward me, and his paws were well up, I aimed for his side, just under the leg, and sent the arrow with all the force I could. I was perhaps twelve years old, but I well knew, like Indian boys, how to use the bow. My arrow struck just where I wanted it to.
"To think," said Maryann, with a quiet laugh, as she handed a cup of tea to Bunco "to think that I should ever come for to sit at tea with a live red Indian from Ameriky not that he's red either, for I'm sure that hany one with eyes in their 'ead could see that he's only brown." "Ah, my dear, that's 'cause he's changed colour," said Larry, pushing in his cup for more tea.
He was on the point of putting his finger through the centre of one of them when Wowkle the Indian woman-of-all-work of the cabin, who sat upon the floor before the fire singing a lullaby to the papoose strapped to its cradle on her back turning suddenly her gaze in his direction, was just in time to prevent him. "Charlotte rusk Palmetto rest'rant not take," were her warning words.
No one opposed him further, and he rode away alone. "It won't be any trouble for John to bring Sassoon in," murmured Scott, who spoke with a smile and in the low tone and deliberate manner of the Indian, "if he can find him." With de Spain, Scott remained in front of the barn, saddled horses in hand.
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