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Updated: June 28, 2025
"'But why the Painted Scroll? I said to Ongyatasse; for if, as I supposed, the real message was in the question and answer, I could not see why there should still be a Council called. "'The scroll, said my friend, 'is for those who are meant to be fooled by it. "'But who should be fooled? "'Whoever should stop us on the trail.
For a moment we were so taken up with the wonder of his darting pace, that it was not until we saw him reaching his long shoeing-pole to Ongyatasse across the ice, that we realized what he was doing. He had circled about until he had found ice that held, and kicking off his snowshoes, he stretched himself flat on it.
"'Town is a trade-maker, he said; 'men who trade much for things, will also trade for honor. "'The Lenni-Lenape carry their honor in their hands, said Ongyatasse, 'but the Tallegewi carry theirs in their forehead. "He meant," said the Mound-Builder, turning to the children, "that the Lenni-Lenape fought for what they held most dear, and the Tallegewi schemed and plotted for it.
"They were two foes who loved one another, and though their tribes fell into long and bloody war, between these two there was highness and, at the end, most wonderful kindness. The first time that we got Ongyatasse to his feet and he found that his knee, though feeble, was as good as ever, he said to White Quiver, leaning on his shoulder,
My father spoke with his hand so that White Quiver should understand " The Mound-Builder made with his own thumb and forefinger the round sign of the Sun Father, and then the upturned palm to signify that all things should be as between brothers. "I was perfectly willing to do as my father said, for, except Ongyatasse, I had never seen any one who pleased me so much as the young stranger.
For the rest, my brothers used to say that I was the tail and Ongyatasse wagged me. "Whether he had heard the words or not, the young Lenape saw me stutter in my invitation. There might have been a quiver in his face, at my father's gesture he had turned toward me, but there was none in his walking. He came straight on toward our fire and through it.
"We had worked a man's length under the ledge, and one day I looked up with the sun in my eyes, as it reddened toward the west, and saw Ongyatasse standing under a hickory tree. He was dressed for running, and around his mouth and on both his cheeks was the white Peace Mark. I made the proper sign to him as to one carrying orders. "'You are to come with me, he said. 'We carry a pipe to Miami."
The next thing I knew I was lying half-stunned, with a great many pains in different parts of me, at the bottom of the ravine, almost within touch of Ongyatasse and a young Lenape with an amulet of white deer's horn about his neck and, across his back, what had once been a white quiver.
I saw Ongyatasse stuffing Tiakens's hair into his mouth so as to leave both his hands free, and then there was a running gasp of astonishment from the rest of the band, as a slim figure shot out of Dark Woods, skimming and circling like a swallow. We had heard of the snowshoes of the Lenni-Lenape, but this was the first time we had seen them.
"'My thoughts do not move so fast as my feet, O my friend, said I. 'Who would stop a pipe-carrier of the Tallegewi?" "'What if it should be the Horned Heads? said Ongyatasse. "That was a name we had given the Lenni-Lenape on account of the feathers they tied to the top of their hair, straight up like horns sprouting.
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