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But a most troublesome member; for now began in her that perilous crisis which seems to endanger the bodies and souls of all savages and savage tribes, when they first mingle with the white man; that crisis which, a few years afterwards, began to hasten the extermination of the North American tribes; and had it not been for the admirable good sense and constancy of Amyas, Ayacanora might have ended even more miserably than did the far-famed Pocahontas, daughter of the Virginian king; who, after having been received at Court by the old pedant James the First, with the honors of a sister sovereign, and having become the reputed ancestress of more than one ancient Virginian family, ended her days in wretchedness in some Wapping garret.
Ayacanora clapped her hands at finding herself understood, and the questioning went on. "The 'devil' appeared like a monkey, with a gray beard, in a ruff; humph! "Ay!" said she in good enough Spanish, "Mono de Panama; viejo diablo de Panama." Yeo threw up his hands with a shriek "Oh Lord of all mercies! Those were the last words of Mr. John Oxenham!
Leigh soberly on a pillion behind the groom, Ayacanora cantering round and round upon the moors like a hound let loose, and trying to make Amyas ride races with her. But that night, sleeping in the same room with Mrs.
She is puzzled; her notion of a thank-offering was rather that of the Indians, and indeed of the Spaniards, sacrifices of human victims, and the bedizenment of the Great Spirit's sanctuary with their skulls and bones. Ayacanora could understand that: but the almsgiving she could not, till Mrs.
Cary! this is too bad of you, sir!" quoth Jack indignantly, while Amyas asked what was the matter. "He looked at me," said she, sturdily. "Well, a cat may look at a king." "But he sha'n't look at Ayacanora. Nobody shall but you, or I'll kill him!" In vain Jack protested his innocence of having even looked at her. She refused to return below to her lesson.
The self-help and daring of the forest nymph had given place to the trembling modesty of the young girl, suddenly cast on shore in a new world, among strange faces, strange hopes, and strange fears also. "Will your mother love me?" whispered she to Amyas, as she went in. "Yes; but you must do what she tells you." Ayacanora pouted. "She will laugh at me, because I am wild."
"He will, old heart-of-oak!" said Cary, laying his arm around Amyas's neck, to the evident disgust of Ayacanora, who went off to the side, got a fishing-line, and began amusing herself therewith, while the ship slipped on quietly and silently as ever, save when Ayacanora laughed and clapped her hands at the flying-fish scudding from the bonitos.
My old wits are shaky. Bless you, sir, and thank you for ever and ever!" And Yeo grasped Amyas's hand, and went down to his cabin, from which he did not reappear for many hours. From that day Ayacanora was a new creature.
You shall tell me all to-morrow;" and he turned away. "Why do you take her hand?" said Ayacanora, half-scornfully. "She is old, and ugly, and dirty." "She is an Englishwoman, child, and a martyr, poor thing; and I would nurse her as I would my own mother." "Why don't you make me an Englishwoman, and a martyr? I could learn how to do anything that that old hag could do!"
Treasure they have got in South America, and old Salvation Yeo has found a young girl whom he had lost twelve years before, grown up wild among the Indians. Ayacanora she is called, and she is white, for her father was an Englishman and her mother Spanish, for all her savage ways; and will not be separated from her discoverers, but insists on going with them to England.
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