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Updated: June 18, 2025
But as well talk to tigers. Le Borgne alone listened, his foxy glance fastened on my face with a strange, watchful look, neither hostile nor friendly. To Godefroy's threats the Indian answered that "white-man talk not true of all," pointing to Jack Battle, "him no friend great white chief him captive " Then Godefroy burst out with the unworthiest answer that ever passed man's lips.
"Let the braves seize the furs of the Little White Sticks, trade the furs to the white-man for muskets, massacre the English, then when the great white chief's big canoes left, kill the Frenchmen of the fort." "Ha," says Godefroy. "Jack's safe outside! We'll have a care to serve you through the loop-holes, and trade you only broken muskets!"
While they were thus engaged, the senior rose from the earth, staring about him for a moment with looks of stupid inquiry; until beginning at last to comprehend the accident that had happened to him, and perhaps moved by the late of his treasure, he also burst into a fury; and snatching up the nearest gun, he clapped it to his horse's head, and shot it dead on the spot, roaring out, "Cuss' white-man hoss! throw old Piankeshaw!
Look at her," and he pointed to Tabitha, who notwithstanding the venom sucking and the grass tied round her blackened finger, sat huddled-up, shivering and half comatose. "Let me pass, White-man, that I may save her if I can," he went on. "Get back," said Thomas, "I will have none of your black magic practised on my daughter. If she is to live God will save her."
The white-man, when he wishes to trade profitably with the Indian, fills the cup, and holds it forth he says, 'drink, my brother, it is good' the red-man drinks, and the wily white points at his condition, says he is uncivilized, and should go forth from the land, for his presence is contamination!
But unconsciousness of the latter calamity was of no great duration, and was dispelled by the old chief saying, but with looks of drunken respect, that had succeeded his insane fury "Me brudder great-medicine white-man! great white-man medicine! Me Wenonga, great Injun-captain, great kill-man-white-man, kill-all-man, man-man, squaw-man, little papoose-man! Me make medicine-man brudder-man!
Hearing him, Thomas turned in the narrow gateway of the kraal and asked wildly: "What has happened, Witch-doctor?" "This has happened, White-man," answered Menzi, "the Floweret has been bitten by a hooded snake and is about to die.
At this came a harsh laugh from a taciturn Indian standing on the outer rim of the crowd. It was the fellow who had run through the forest with the torch. "Who is that, Godefroy?" "Le Borgne." "Le Borgne need not laugh," retorted M. de Radisson sharply. "Le Borgne knows the taste of fire-water! Le Borgne has been with the white-man at the south, and knows what the white-man says is true."
What right had the Government to steal land from the Indians, to break treaties, to run a steam track across the plains and mountains? Slingerland foresaw the bloodiest period ever known in the West, before that work should be completed. It had struck him deep this white-man movement across the Wyoming hills, and it was not the loss of all he had worked for that he minded.
The blow was arrested by the renegade Doe, or Atkinson, who made his appearance at the same time with Wenonga, and muttered some words in the Shawnee tongue, which seemed meant to soothe the old man's fury. "Me Injun-man!" said the chief, addressing his words to the prisoner, and therefore in the prisoner's language, "Me kill all white-man! Me Wenonga: me drink white-mans blood! me no heart!"
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