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There was no possibility of galloping down the wood-encumbered banks after the fugitive; but quick as thought each Red-man leaped to the ground, and fitting an arrow to his bow, awaited Dick's re-appearance with eager gaze.
Spell-bound they waited until the sound of oars mingled with the gradually strengthening song. Then their fingers closed convulsively upon their weapons and they sprang up. "What does my son think?" "He thinks that the white man may be on the war-path, and it behoves the red-man like the serpent to creep into the grass and lie still." The elder savage shook his head. "No, Mozwa.
The whistler, reindeer, mountain sheep and goat, ermine, musk-rat, marmet, wolf and bear, are tracked and trapped by the red-man; but I doubt if the foot of the white-man is likely to venture far into the almost impenetrable confusion of logs and brush that is the distinguishing feature of the Alaskan wilderness.
I know how amiable, how excellent, they are like little shildren dey haf lissened to me ven I haf talked to dem of de aura of Schrellenbach and de ofersoul all vunder, and, I know, all pelief. But I vill not take down de time. Terrible things indeed! Miss Slopham's manuscript ran with gore the gore of the red-man always.
I was on my way to visit him, when, one evening, I came upon the camp of the pale-faces. I knew that sometimes they were not friendly to the red-man, so I waited till dark, and then crept forward and listened. Their chief was loud-voiced and boastful. He boasted of how many Indians he had killed. I could have shot him where I lay and then escaped easily, but I spared him, for I wished to listen.
Captain Willoughby, knowing his man, waited quite another minute, after the red-man was leaning against an apple-tree, before he questioned him. "Welcome back, Nick," he then said. "Where did you leave my son?" "He tell dere," answered the Indian, presenting a note, which the captain read. "This is all right, Nick; and it shows you have been a true man. Your wages shall be paid to-night.
The victory was, indeed, so complete, and as it appeared that several bands of warriors from more distant villages were in the town at the time of the attack the blow inflicted upon the tribe so much severer than was anticipated even from a series of attacks upon several different towns, as was at first designed, that the victors, satisfied that they had done enough to convince the red-man of the irresistible superiority of the Long-knife, satisfied, too, perhaps, that the cheapness of the victory rendered it more valuable than a greater triumph achieved at a greater loss, gave up at once their original design of carrying the war into other villages, and resolved to retrace their march to the Settlements.
This is indeed a faithful picture of one of the frequent episodes of colonial life in New England! Every new settlement was brought face to face with such dangers as we have described. The red-man and the white man were next door neighbors. The smokes of the wigwam and the cabin mingled as they rose to the sky. From the first there was more or less antagonism.
The Sioux were swift and agile undoubtedly, but so was Kateegoose, and he had the advantage of knowing the ground, while the trail by which, in ordinary circumstances, the Red-man can track his enemy through the forest was not available there in consequence of its being so mingled up with the crossing and re-crossing of the innumerable tracks of settlers.
Had red-skin opinions been taken, Abercrombie might now have been a conqueror, instead of a miserable, beaten man." Susquesus raised a finger, and his dark countenance became illumined by an expression that was more eloquent even than his tongue. "Why no open ear to red-man!" he asked, with dignity. "Some bird sing a song that good some sing bad song but all bird know his own song.
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