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Updated: June 11, 2025
We were anxious to return as soon as possible to the settlement, to relieve the minds of our relatives but that evening, in consequence of the fatigue and hardships I had endured, I was again taken ill. Kepenau had a wigwam carefully built for me, in which Lily and Dora assisted Mike in watching over me.
He had much conversation with Kepenau and Ashatea, with whom he could converse in their own language. They were evidently deeply interested in what he said, and I saw him frequently produce his Bible and refer to it to strengthen what he was saying.
We followed, joined by Kepenau and the other men. Marks of blood on the grass showed us that the deer had been wounded. Still, it might run, should the dogs not overtake it, for several miles, and might escape us after all. It was too valuable a prize to be lost, so we continued the pursuit. The country now became much more open, and we saw that the deer had made its way across the plain.
Kepenau told me that he intended to pitch his tents in the neighbourhood of the proposed settlement remarking that he should now have no fear of his people being seduced by the terrible "fire water" and that he hoped to change his skin-tents into substantial dwellings like those of the Palefaces, and to cultivate the ground instead of depending on the chase for subsistence.
Reuben looked somewhat alarmed, and in his eagerness was very nearly doing both the things against which he was being warned. Kepenau, however taking his arm, helped him in. "Now, don't move till you reach the end of your voyage," said the Indian. "Perhaps we shall be there to help you out."
"Now that the rice is ripe, I want to take them down to the lake where it grows, that we may gather our canoe full." Kepenau said that his people would be very glad to receive the goods we had brought, and would be ready to purchase them with their beaver-skins and other peltries, of which they had a considerable store.
As he spoke I recognised my old friend Kepenau, whom I had not seen since we had come to our present location. I had so grown, too, that he did not at first recognise me. Having taken off our skates, we followed him to his camp, where he introduced us to several other Indians and their squaws, among whom were a number of children of all ages.
As trails were discovered which were pronounced to be those of Apaches, I felt some anxiety lest old Samson and his companions might have been attacked and overpowered. "He is too well acquainted with their ways to be caught," observed Kepenau.
Kepenau and Manilick, having become civilised themselves, laboured incessantly in the civilisation of their people aided by our revered friend, Martin Godfrey, who eventually settled down among them.
"I used once to read my Bible, and listen gladly to God's Word read and preached, when I lived with my good father and mother in the `old country, though I have sadly neglected it since I came out here," he said; "but I will do so no longer. You have reminded me of my duty, friend Kepenau." "What you say makes me glad.
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