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The girl raised her head: "Ask me concerning the truth, you sachems of the Oneida, and speak for the five war-chiefs who stand in their paint behind you!" An old sachem rose, peering out at her from dim, aged eyes. "Is it war, O Woman of the Rose?" he quavered. "Neah!" she said, sweetly. An intense silence followed, shattered by a scream from the hag, Catrine. "A lie! It is war!

The disastrous sequel will, however, soon manifest itself. One morning, Captain Clapperton walked forward with Mr. Houston to the town of Puka, the first place in the Youriba territory, where they were civilly received, and they were visited by one of the Eyeo war-chiefs, who came in state. He was mounted on a small horse, as were two of his attendants; the rest of the cavalcade were on foot.

I have dreamed for you, O Elder Brothers! And I have dreamed of war!!" "And I of peace!" came the clear, floating voice, soothing the harsh echoes of the hag's shrieking appeal. "Take heed, you Mohawks, and you Cayuga war-chiefs and sachems, that you do no violence to this council-fire!" "The Oneidas are women!" yelled the hag.

The first stage is that which exists before the establishment of a settled civilization, when there is yet no national ruler, and when the unit of society is the great patriarchal family, with its elders or war-chiefs for lords. Under these conditions, the spirits of the family-ancestors only are worshipped; each family propitiating its own dead, and recognizing no other form of worship.

Among these council-men all retired chiefs and warriors whose ardent zeal for the display of courage had long been cooled, and whose present duties were those of calm deliberation for their people's welfare there were two old, distinguished war-chiefs. Each of these men still carried his war-lance, wrapped up in decorated buckskin.

Little Beaver now carried a lot of light firewood and arranged it in front of the prisoner, but Guy's legs were free and he gave it a kick which sent it all flying. The two War-chiefs leaped aside. "Ugh! Heap sassy," said the ferocious Woodpecker. "Tie him legs, oh, Brother Great Chief Little Beaver!" A new bark strip tied his legs securely to the tree.

They're all awaiting us, it is said; the whole crew Johnson's Greens, Butler's Rangers, McDonald's painted Tories, Brant's Mohawks and the Senecas with their war-chiefs and their sorcerer, Amochol truly a motley devil's brood, Lana; and I pray only that one of Morgan's men may sight Walter Butler or Sir John over his rifle's end."

Somehow this man's presence made me uncomfortable, and I was glad when a native arrived at that moment to say that Muckawow, the most companionable and luxurious among the rude war-chiefs of the Islands, desired us to come over and help him enjoy a missionary whom he had found trespassing on his grounds.

The sachems and war-chiefs are distinguished from the rest: the latter by a gorget, and the former by a medal, with the King's portrait on one side, and on the other Mars and Bellona joining hands, with the device, Virtues et Honor." Thus attired, the company sat in two lines facing each other, with kettles in the middle filled with meat chopped for distribution.

As he spoke the Indian gave a last spasm with his hands and feet, and lay rigid, grinning up at the slit of blue sky above him. "He's a great chief," said Du Lhut. "He is Brown Moose of the Mohawks, and the other is his second son. We have drawn first blood, but I do not think that it will be the last, for the Iroquois do not allow their war-chiefs to die unavenged.