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Updated: May 15, 2025
Fiercely the war cry of the Crees rang in the air, while above it rose the shrill sound of clashing spears and tomahawks; and Oriana knew that the savages were dancing round a death- fire, and calling on Mahneto to accept their bloody offering.
'Fire the pile! cried Tisquantum; and the flames burst up from the dry crackling wood, and threw a broad sheet of light on the dark stream below. 'He is there! again shouted the infuriated Chieftain. 'I see the white foam that his rapid strokes leave behind him. Send your arrows after him, my brave warriors, and suffer him not to escape. Ha! will Mahneto let him thus avoid my vengeance?
I have no one to speak to me as my parents, and my venerable teacher, used to do; and no one to kneel with me in prayer to the Almighty. 'Do not you worship the Great Mahneto the Mighty Spirit from whom every good gift comes? asked Oriana, with surprise. 'He is the one true God, and all the red men know and worship him.
My son has given me his word that he will never take you from me until Mahneto recalls my spirit to himself, and I dwell again with my fathers. Has he not also said that he will never leave or forsake you and his boy? Why, then, do you make your heart sad?
Will your Mahneto forgive him, Henrich? The heart of the Christian boy was penetrated with joy and thankfulness at this frank confession of the young Indian.
'Surely he was wounded, and has sunk, never to rise again! exclaimed Henrich. 'His doom has followed him! 'Mahneto be praised! cried Tisquantum; 'but I would I had seen him writhing in those flames! And he turned and left the spot.
And think you that he would not scorn to live when honor is gone I Go' he added more gently, as he saw the sorrow that dimmed her eye 'go, and tell Jyanough to meet me at the Sachem's lodge. Terah may yet be saved this victim comes at s happy moment, and surely Mahneto demands his life as at offering for that of the venerable Pince. Oriana shuddered at what she saw to be her father's meaning.
Henrich had also, on their first acquaintance, distinctly professed his faith in the existence and the power of the Great Mahneto, or Master of Life; and this was all the religion properly so called of which Tisquantum had any idea.
'O, Mahneto! he exclaimed, in a hoarse and howling voice; 'O, Richtan-Mahneto, who created the first man and woman out of a stone, and placed them in these forests to be the parents of thy red children; is it thy will that Terah shall leave his brethren to mourn his departed goodness and wisdom, and go on that long and toilsome journey that leads to the hunting-grounds of our forefathers?
The reins almost fell from his hands; and, in trembling accents, he declared his total inability to proceed any further. Leave me, my children! he exclaimed, 'to perish here; for my strength is gone; and what matters it where the old Tisquantum breathes his last. Mahneto is here, even in this awful hour, to receive my spirit; and I shall but lose a few short months or years of age and infirmity.
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