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Updated: June 15, 2025
It seemed as if parties of warriors, returning victorious from the lands of the Long-knife, were, time after time, marching into and through the village, proclaiming the success of their arms, and exhibiting the trophies of their triumph.
One morning he entered the store of a trader, accompanied by Chint-zille. The following dialogue took place: "Bull Tail is welcome to the lodge of the Long-Knife; but why is his daughter, the pride of his heart, bathed in tears? It pains me that one so beautiful should weep." The old chief answered: "Chint-zille is a foolish girl. Her father loves her, and therefore she cries."
The general estimate of his activity, vigilance, courage, and enterprise, was constantly rising. By the Indians he was regarded as the most formidable and intelligent captain of the Long-knife; and by the settlers and immigrants as a disinterested and heroic patriarch of the infant settlements. He often supplied destitute families gratuitously with game.
We rode up and were presently shaking hands with our old-time ally, the Catawba. "How!" said he; "heap how! Chief Harris glad; wah! Make think have to go to Sal'bury to find Captain Long-knife and Captain Jennif'. Heap much glad!" "Chief Harris?" I queried. "Who may he be?" The Catawba drew himself up and drummed upon his breast. "Chief Harris here," he answered, proudly.
"Ma mere," said Verty, tenderly taking the old woman's hand and sitting at her feet, "the Great Spirit has made me honest and open I cannot conceal anything. I cannot pry and search. I might find out this from some other person who knows? But I will not try. Come! speak with a straight tongue. Am I the son of a brave; am I a Delaware; or am I what my face makes me out a Long-knife?"
He strove to ask the wild barbarian of her fate, but the latter motioned him fiercely to keep silence; and the motion and the savage look that accompanied it being disregarded, the Indian drew a long knife from his belt, and pressing the point on Roland's throat, muttered too sternly and emphatically to be misconceived, "Long-knife speak, Long-knife die!
Hard-Heart listened like one in whom a train of novel ideas had been excited by the reasoning of the other. He mused for a minute before he demanded "What do the wise chiefs of the Sioux say must be done?" "They think that the moccasin of every Pale-face should be followed, like the track of the bear. That the Long-knife, who comes upon the prairie, should never go back.
"She shall be the wife of Mahtoree; then the Long-knife will be the father of a chief." "And me," continued the trapper, making one of those expressive signs, by which the natives communicate, with nearly the same facility as with their tongues, and turning to the squatter at the same time, in order that the latter might see he dealt fairly by him; "he asks for a miserable and worn-out trapper."
The bolo or long-knife, a basket, and hoe, complete the list of implements, and answer all the purposes of our spades, etc.
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