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Updated: June 17, 2025
"It would have sounded so prettily in England to say that an Indian Princess stood up with me, for Miles says that she is the sister of a great king of Waqua ; thou dost recollect him, Prudence?" "The funny salvage," said the girl, "who mistook a painting for a live man.
Drawing, therefore, his tomahawk from his girdle and brandishing it over his head, he exclaimed, "Waqua is a warrior, and not a bird to be made weak by a white medicine." But before the enraged Indian could cast the weapon from his hand, he felt his arm suddenly arrested, and, turning, beheld the laughing face of Prudence Rix.
The uneasiness of Waqua increased. He felt no fear, but a confusion of thought which threatened to obscure entirely his faculties. The idea crossed his mind that the man was dumb, but that accounted only for the silence. Why the immobility? If he were dumb, at least he could walk, for well-formed limbs were visible.
Arundel accepted the invitation to a seat, for he knew not how better to pass the time than in watching the humors around him, but declined participating in any potations. The Indian too, much to the surprise of the Captain and of Arundel, refused to drink, and to the pressing entreaties of the former only answered, "Waqua is not thirsty."
He took care, therefore, during the rest of the day, to carry Waqua with him wherever he moved, or to follow the Indian, when the latter's curiosity tempted him into different parts of the assemblage. It was seldom, if ever, that the Puritans undertook anything of importance, either of a private or public character, without invoking the blessing and guidance of a superior power.
Throwing it then across his shoulders on top of the deer's carcass, he led the way out of the path in a direction different from that in which Arundel had been travelling. It was truly as Waqua had said, and a few moments sufficed to reach his habitation.
Arrived at his dwelling, Waqua took down some skins suspended on one side, and spreading them upon the ground, courteously invited his companion to a seat. Arundel was glad to rest after his late violent conflict, and availed himself of the opportunity to brush off the dirt, and re-arrange his torn and disordered dress.
As soon as they stood in the street, Arundel said: "I am grieved, Waqua, that thou, on my account, shouldst have been the object of the ruffian's rage. Its possibility occurred not to me." "Let not my brother grieve," said the Indian. "It is nothing; not so much as the scratch of a bear's paw."
Waqua only asks the hospitality of the silent chief, and permission to remain in his lodge till his friend returns." Thus having spoken, Waqua gathered up his robe upon his shoulder, and awaited a reply. But in vain. Still the figure preserved silence, and maintained the same immovable attitude, gazing on him with eyes from which there was no escaping, and which seemed to pierce into his soul.
The sight of the latter seemed to suggest an idea to Winthrop, for, turning to him, he said: "On the morrow I expect an embassy from some of your countrymen, Waqua. Will not the chief remain to witness it?" On the quiet countenance of the Indian only an inquiry was to be read.
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