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It's only ten minutes to the Sachem's Gate, if we walk fast." "I want a bath and fresh linen." "Don't you care to see the trout? Don't you want to try to catch a glimpse of a wild boar? I should think you'd be crazy to see " "I'm crazy about almost any old thing when I'm well scrubbed; otherwise, I'm merely crazy. That was a wild trip up. I'm all over cinders."
Judge, therefore, O Sagamore, judge, you Yellow Moth, and you Oneidas Grey-Feather, with your war-chief's feather and your Sachem's ensign, Tahoontowhee, chieftain to be judge, all of you, where the real glory lies whether behind us in the rifle smoke or before us in the red glare of Amochol's accursed altar!" They had been listening to every word as I walked beside them.
Go, and see that thou dost speak more truly in the sachem's presence, or he will hang thy scalp in his wigwam to-night." Squanto a little depressed at this suggestion, attempted no reply, but hastened after the chief who already was nearing the brook, while from the side of the town approached Standish, preceded by drum and fife and followed by six musketeers.
He consequently grew rapidly in the Sachem's favor, and in that of all his companions, who learnt to love his kind and courteous manners, as much as they admired his courage and address. One only of the red men envied him the esteem that he gained, and hated him for it. This was Coubitant the aspirant for the chief place in Tisquantum's favor, and for the honor of one day becoming his son-in-law.
Coubitant, however, had soon secured a considerable stock of fish, and he rowed to the shore, and requested Oriana and her companion to convey them to the Sachem's lodge; adding, in a careless tone, that it would not be worth their while to return to the river, as he was going to a reach at some distance down the stream, towards the head of the cataract, where he expected to show Henrich excellent sport.
"In a lodge near Thayendanega's, an' until to-night there has been no great danger he would be tortured, as I believe because of the sachem's promise that he shall not be killed." "How did you get to speak with him?" I asked, in surprise. "Within three hours after leavin' you I was hereabout, an' saw him.
Desertion of the Narragansets. Retreat of the English. Grief of Sassacus. Journey to Saybrook. Effects of the victory. News of the victory dispatched to Massachusetts. New expedition. Fugitives. Pursuit. Sachem's Head. Arrival at New Haven. News of a camp in a swamp. Surrender of Indians. Escape of the Pequots. Death of Sassacus. Children sold into slavery. Extermination of the tribe.
At Henrich's request, the capital sentence was remitted; but one of agony and shame was inflicted in its stead one that is commonly reserved for the punishment of repeated cases of theft. The Sachem's knife again was lifted, and, with a dexterous movement of his hand, he slit the noses of each of the culprits from top to bottom, and dismissed them, to carry for life the marks of their disgrace.
And think you that he would not scorn to live when honor is gone I Go' he added more gently, as he saw the sorrow that dimmed her eye 'go, and tell Jyanough to meet me at the Sachem's lodge. Terah may yet be saved this victim comes at s happy moment, and surely Mahneto demands his life as at offering for that of the venerable Pince. Oriana shuddered at what she saw to be her father's meaning.
But ten minutes in the sachem's wigwam convinced the wary observer that something was wrong, for the old friendliness of manner had given place to restraint and formality; and although Canacum was very ready to deliver the corn, and professed great pleasure at the captain's visit, his voice and manner were both cold and false, and such of his braves as came into the wigwam showed a very different face from what Standish had hitherto encountered.
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