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Updated: June 5, 2025
Jenieve, without knowing she was saying a word, spoke out: "Monsieur the chief Pontiac, what ails the French and Indians?" "Malatat," answered Pontiac. The word came at her with force. "Monsieur the chief Pontiac," repeated Jenieve, struggling to understand, "I say, what ails the French and Indians?" "Malatat!" His guttural cry rang through the bushes.
"Monsieur, what does 'malatat' mean?" "'Malatat'? That's a Chippewa word. You will often hear that. It means 'good for nothing." "But I have heard that the chief Pontiac was an Ottawa." The young man was not interested in Pontiac. "A chief would know a great many dialects," he replied. "Chippewa was the tongue of this island.
His head sunk on his breast, and Jenieve could see the fronds of the feathers he wore traced indistinctly against the sky. The dead eyes searched for her and could not see her; he whispered hoarsely to himself, "Malatat!" The voice of the living world calling her name sounded directly afterwards in the woods, and Jenieve leaped as if she were shot.
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