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Say, Eric, shall we shorten sail?" "Nay," answered Eric, "keep her full and bail. Where yonder Raven flies, my Sea-stag must follow," and he pointed to the warship that rode the waves before them. After midnight clouds came up, with rain, and hid the face of the night-sun and the ship they sought.
I said, disturbed, but striving to speak lightly: "Little Oneida goddess in your bridal dress, the Seven Dancers are laughing at me from your eyes; and the Day-Sun and the Night-Sun hang from your sacred girdle, making it flash like silvery showers of seawan. Salute, O Watcher at the Gates of Dawn! Onwa oyah! Na-i! A-i! Lois!"
So now now, I say if my brother's sight is dimmed on the trail to Catharines-town, Mayaro will teach him how to see under the night-sun as owls see, so that behind us, the steps of many men shall not stumble, and the darkness of the Long House shall become redder than dawn, lighted by the flames of a thousand rifles! "Brother! A Sagamore never lies. I have drawn my brother's knife!
Then six sachems rose, casting off their black-and-white blankets, and each in turn planted branches of yellow willow, green willow, red osier, samphire, witch-hazel, spice-bush, and silver birch along the edge of the silent throng of savages. "Until the night-sun comes be these your barriers, O Iroquois!" they chanted.
"Aliquor" was Indian, "Waugee" was white man, "Chick" was the general word for money. "Hutla" is night, "Wha" is the sun; "Hutla-wha" is the moon the night-sun. If an Indian wishes to ask where you are going, he will say, "Ta hunt tow ingya?" "Teena scoia" is very good. "Skeena" is too small. "Semastolon" is a young woman; if she is considered beautiful, "Clane nuquum" describes her.
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