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Yea, the day is approaching, the hateful day, which shall part me for ever from the house of Odysseus; and this shall be the manner of the trial whereby I will prove which of the wooers is to win me: I will set up twelve axes, like the trestles on which the keel of a ship is laid, in the hall, and he who can send an arrow through the line of double axeheads from the further end of the hall shall win me for his bride.
"I'm going to risk what you've got out already, sir," was the reply. "According to the men there's about three hundredweight to lower yet." "At a rough guess, yes," said Brace. "That's the very outside then, and we shall have to beat and hammer a lot of these together with the axeheads to make them take up less room. Look for yourselves."
The three Indians at once undertook not only to put handles to the hammers, but to sharpen the stones intended for axeheads. "It will take some time," observed Kallolo; "but in our country we do not think much of time, and patience overcomes all difficulties." "We must not, however, forget the necessity of finding provisions for our settlement," observed Uncle Paul.
To add to their terror, at this moment a loud peal of thunder shook the house. Filled with high courage by the happy omen, Odysseus took an arrow, and, fitting it to the string, sent it with sure aim from the place where he sat along the whole line of axeheads, from the first to the last. "Telemachus," he said, "thy guest hath not shamed thee.
This "Coppermine" River was said to flow through a region rich in deposits of copper. From this district the northern tribes of Indians derived their copper ornaments and axeheads. He entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman at the tender age of eleven, and remained in the Navy till about 1765, when he went out to Hudson Bay with the rank of quartermaster.
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