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Now he has come back to his home again, to the forest and the hunting and the warpath, to his king and his people. He will be again the panther crouching upon the bough" "Above the white men?" He gazed at me in silence, a shadow upon his face. "Above the Monacans," he answered slowly.
I do not sit by his council fire now, nor do I lead his war bands. When I went last to his lodge and stood before him, his eyes burned me like the coals the Monacans once closed my hands upon. He would not speak to me." "It would not fret me if he never spoke again," I said. "You have been to the forest to-day?" "Yes," he replied, glancing at the smear of leaf mould upon his beaded moccasins.
I, nevertheless, pushed on; but the rain and wind had obliterated their trail, and I could only guess the direction they had taken. Before me, at some distance, was a rocky region in which several caverns existed, where the Monacans, should they be acquainted with them, would, I knew, fly for shelter.
Smith delivered up the Indian Namontuck, who had just returned from a voyage to England whither it was suspected the Emperor wished him to go to spy out the weakness of the English tribe and repeated Father Newport's request that Powhatan would come to Jamestown to receive the presents and join in an expedition against his enemies, the Monacans.
He and another officer immediately set off to the harbour. They had gone some few hours when one of my people, who had been out scouting, brought word that the Monacans, who are at enmity with the pale-faces, were out on a war-path, and would too probably fall in with the trail of our friends and pursue and scalp them.
Smith delivered up the Indian Namontuck, who had just returned from a voyage to England whither it was suspected the Emperor wished him to go to spy out the weakness of the English tribe and repeated Father Newport's request that Powhatan would come to Jamestown to receive the presents and join in an expedition against his enemies, the Monacans.
Well, after about three weeks or so, during which time the dogs and the searchers brought back most all of the runaway niggers, and Mistress Lettice had hysterics every day, back comes the Colonel and Sir Charles with ten of the twenty men who had rowed them up the Pamunkey. The rest had fallen in a brush with the Monacans.
To seek gold-mines and the South Sea, Newport, taking all the strong and healthy men at the fort, visited the country of the Monacans beyond the falls of the James.
Should the Monacans discover them, they would in all probability instantly put them to death. "They know what they are about," observed Fenton, "and depend upon it they will not allow themselves to be taken." "Had they their arms they might defend themselves," observed Gilbert, "but of those the Indians are sure to have deprived them." They asked Miantomah: he laughed.
They gathered their weapons and fishing lines, and got aboard. It was not a question of killing Monacans now, but of saving themselves and their friends. They rowed with all their might from the start. For hours they kept their new paddles busy. They reached the village after dark, and when they uttered the dreadful word "Monacans," it ran from one wigwam to another.
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