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That is as it should be, O my blood-brother, pure from birth, and at adolescence undefiled. Of such Hidden Ones were the White-Plumed Sagamores. Of such was Tamanund, the Silver-Plumed; and the great Uncas, with his snowy-winged and feathered head Hidden People, Loskiel without stain, without reproach.
For in my ears the Seven Chiefs are whispering The Thunderers. And Tamanund must hear my speech and read my heart. And the long roll of our Mohican dead must be recited here and alone by me the only one who has that right since Uncas died and the Mohican priesthood ended, save for the Sagamores of the Magic Clan. "Go, now, my brother. Go in peace."
And if he were in ghostly communication with the Mighty Dead I do not know, for I heard him breathe the name of Tamanund, and then remain silent as though listening for an answer.
Of what my brother Loskiel and this strange maiden did under the Oneida Dancers and the Belt of Tamanund, Mayaro has no knowledge." Why should he lie? I did not know.
Now, had this same Indian been an Iroquois I might have formed some reasonable judgment concerning his capacity for treachery; but I had seen few Delawares in my life, and had never heard them speak at all, save to boast in their cups of Uncas, Tamanund, and Miontonomoh. As for a Siwanois Mohican, this Sagamore of the Magic Clan was the first of his tribe and ensign that I had ever beheld.
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