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Updated: June 29, 2025
He, by manifesting on occasion, these, desirable traits, had his followers' confidence confirmed in his selection; upheld those followers' and his own traditions; and often assured his tribe's pre-eminence.
I have got one here that will suit you. It belonged to my grandfather, who was a stout man, and made powerful play with it during a neighbouring tribe's raid when I was a baby to the discomfort, I have been told, and surprise of his foes. I always keep it by me for luck, and have myself used it on occasion, though I prefer a lighter one for ordinary use.
She had been left by the fishing party, to be taken up on their return, because, in the rush of waters about the base of the rock, was a haunt of a small fish esteemed particularly, and because the girl was one of the little tribe's adepts with hook and line She raised her eyes as she heard the patter of footsteps upon the shore, but did not exhibit any alarm when she saw the two young men.
When hunting gave place to the domestication of animals, the horde became more definitely organized into the tribe, strong leadership developed in the defense of the tribe's property, and the military chieftain bent others in submission to his will. As long as land was of value for pasturage mainly, it was owned by the whole tribe in common.
Her hand felt the packet, and fell again nerveless. "The sun has caught you, ma mie," Madame St. Lo said. "You should ride in a mask as I do." "I have not one with me," she muttered, her eyes on the water. "And I but an old one. But at Angers " The Countess heard no more; on that word she caught La Tribe's eye.
"Yes," responded Hugh, "and even then the beggars have the impudence to swear, in the teeth of their talk last night in their wharé-runanga, that Horoeka only meant to give the pakeha boy a good fright because he had done a mischief to the very tapu-tree in which lives the spirit of the tribe's great ancestor."
He also stated that the white hunters set out fires, destroying the grass, and causing the tribe's horses to starve to death as well as the buffalo; that they cut down and otherwise destroyed the timber on the margins of the streams, making large fires of it, while the Indian was satisfied to cook his food with a few dry and dead limbs.
"I think we shall," answered Robinson; then plucked up heart and began his persuasions in the tribe's own dialect, which surprised and pleased the chief. Presently there was an interruption by the chief: "Who are you?" "We are gentlemen." "Where are your guns?" "We have none." The warrior was astonished. "Where your little guns?" "We have none."
A tribal god is petitioned to slay the tribe's enemies, because he is conceived as the god of the tribe and not the god of its enemies.
There were, indeed, three or four punts tied to the shore near by. "Hold on, there," he commanded, "or it'll go bad for you! I want that punt, there, understand?" "Then get that punt there," she said indifferently. "You damned old hag," he screamed, now quite beside himself, "one of your rotten tribe's in that lookout tower, d'you understand?
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