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I pointed at the drawing of the dead white dog. "Somebody saved you from that hellish sacrifice. I tell you it is plain enough to read. The rite is practiced only by the red sorcerers of the Senecas.... Look! It was because your 'neck' was 'white'! Look again! Here is the symbol of the Cat-People the Eries the acolytes of Amochol here! This spread lynx-pad with every separate claw extended!
Loskiel spits on Cats, and brushes their flying hatchets from his ears as others brush mosquitos!" "Let him speak, then, to prove it!" shouted the Erie, incredulously. But I remained silent. Then the Erie's ferocious laugh rang out from the cliff. "Now, you Mohican slave and you Oneida dogs, you shall know the power of Amochol.
Further to the north we heard more musketry break out, as our New York regiments passed rapidly toward Butler's left flank. And by the running fire we could follow their hurried progress. "Hell!" said Boyd, furiously, flinging his rifle to his shoulder. "Come on, Loskiel, or we'll miss this accursed Amochol also." And he gave the signal to march.
A few moments later, General Sullivan passed along our front on horseback, and drew bridle for a moment where Boyd and I were standing at salute. "Now is your opportunity, young gentlemen," he said in a low voice. "If you would gain Catharines-town and destroy Amochol before we drive this motley Tory army headlong through it, you should start immediately.
I whispered; and the Mohican said with a derisive laugh: "Four scalp-tufts from the mangy Cats of Amochol trim my hatchet-sheath. When the young men ask me what this sparse and sickly fur may be, I shall strip it off and cast it at their feet, saying it is but Erie filth to spit upon."
Before Wyoming, with only three others I went to Thenondiago, the Castle of the Three Clans The Bear, The Wolf, and The Turtle and there we took and slew Skull-Face, brother of Amochol, and wounded Telenemut, the husband of Catrine Montour.
But on Tuesday our army will surely march, laying waste the Indian towns and fields. Therefore, giving them ample time for this, they should arrive at this spot on Wednesday." "I have so calculated," said Boyd, listlessly. "But Wednesday is the first day of September; and if we are to strike Amochol at all it must be done during the Onon-hou-aroria. And that ends on Tuesday.
"Why?" he asked sullenly. "The General has so ordered." "Yes, but if I am to catch Amochol I must do it in my own way. I know how to do it. And if I risk taking my twenty riflemen, and am successful, the General will not care how it was accomplished." I said nothing, because Boyd ranked me, but what he proposed made me very uneasy.
But see how the accursed Senecas have dealt with her, so that to save her child from Amochol she sent it far beyond the borders of the Long House itself! What shame upon the Iroquois that the Senecas have defiled their purest law! May Leshi seize them all! So how, then, shall I know whether this white captive mother lives in the Vale Yndaia still or if she lives at all?
Yet, devoured by curiosity, not one of them betrayed it, forbearing, at least in my presence, even to mention the White Prophetess of the Senecas, though they voiced their disappointment freely enough concerning the escape of Amochol.
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