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Knowing that the Iroquois were gaining fast, Radisson threw out the loathsome scalps that the Algonquin had persisted in carrying. By that strange fatality which seems to follow crime, instead of sinking, the hairy scalps floated on the surface of the water back to the pursuing Iroquois. Shouts of rage broke from the warriors.
"Let the three leaders stake their scalps," said the Woodpecker. "All right. First winner home gets a scalp from each of the others and saves his own." "Say, boys, you better take along; your hull outfit, some grub an' your blankets," was the Medicine Man's last suggestion. "You may have to stay out all night."
The enemy's loss in this engagement was about one hundred braves. Ours nineteen. We then returned to our village well pleased with our success, and danced over the scalps which we had taken. The Osages, in consequence of their great loss in this battle, became satisfied to remain on their own lands. This stopped for a while their depredations on our nation.
Stars are too soft an' beautiful to compare to the eyes o' yon savage," said Dick, laughing. "I wish we were well away from them. That rascal Mahtawa is an ugly customer." "True, lad," returned Joe; "had he bin the great chief our scalps had bin dryin' in the smoke o' a Pawnee wigwam afore now. What now, lad?"
In reply a hoarse yell went up from the savage host, and all the woods resounded with the fiendish noise. Thus Satouriona and his braves set forth for battle. In a few days they returned singing praises to the Sun, and bringing with them twenty-four prisoners and many scalps. And now Laudonnière made Satouriona more angry than ever with him. For he demanded two of these prisoners.
They look eagerly for the welcome sight of home. The cone-shaped teepees rise before their view. They know that their young wives will rejoice to see the scalps, as much as to know that the wanderers have returned. When they are near their village the war chief raises the song of victory; the other warriors join their voices to his.
They put their hands to their heads their own scalps were safe! The poor untutored savages had indeed scalped the children. But they had only, so to speak, scalped them of the black calico ringlets! The children fell into each other's arms, sobbing and laughing. 'Their scalps are ours, chanted the chief; 'ill-rooted were their ill-fated hairs!
He assured her a dozen times over, "he was her dog and her slave, and vowed he would hunt her so many Injun scalps, and steal her such a 'tarnal chance of Shawnee hosses, thar shorld'nt be a gal in all Kentucky should come up to her for stock and glory:" and, finally, not content with making a thousand other promises of an equally extravagant character, and swearing, that, "if she axed it, he would go down on his knees and say his prayers to her," he offered, as soon as he had carried her safely across the river, to "take the backtrack, and lick, single-handed, all the Injun abbregynes that might be following."
You will have a willing patient ready for me by willing I mean something gayer than resigned and my bugbear, Nap that most lurid specimen of civilised devilry hunting scalps on the other side of the Atlantic." "Oh, I don't know!" Anne said quickly. "I don't know!" She spoke breathlessly, as one suddenly plunged into a strong current.
Their motive in going to war, and keeping up the war, was not so much anger at the encroachments of the whites, as the eager thirst for glory, scalps, and plunder, to be won at the expense of the settlers. American State Papers, Indian Affairs, i., 81. If the white men did not break the treaties, then the red men did. It is idle to dispute about the rights or wrongs of the contests.
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