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He scolded the erring rifle in his own language, and then said to me, "Good! good! You white-man very big shoot ugh!" We joined Mallory and the other Indian soon after. They had only killed a fox. Together we made two sled-drags of the thickest, heaviest hemlock boughs, and loading the game the panther-cat and fox on one sled, and the moose on the other pulled them to the Indian camp.
"That the gods have sent him a messenger to them; that the fire he brings " he was handing a musket to the chief "will smite the Indians' enemy from the earth; that the bullet is magic to outrace the fleetest runner" this as M. Radisson fired a shot into mid-air that sent the Indians into ecstasies of childish wonder "that the bottle in his hands contains death, and if the Indians bring their hunt to the white-man, the white-man will never take the cork out except to let death fly at the Indians' enemy" he lifted a little phial of poison as he spoke "that the Indian need never feel cold nor thirst, now that the white-man has brought fire-water!"
But one fell too far out, and another not far enough. About fifteen men were along the banks in violent excitement, and every one of them saw nothing but doom for Annette. As the canoe neared a point about two hundred yards above the falls, a young white-man all the rest were bois-brules rushed out upon the bank, with a paddle in his hand, and without a word sprang into the mad waters.
I may be quite wrong in this, but I think that most of the folk-stories coming from the natives are just their attempts to imitate white-man stories, and not original ideas of their own. The conditions or life in Australia for the aboriginal were so harsh, the struggle for existence was so keen, that he had not much time to cultivate ideas.
At night he kindled a roaring big white-man fire against the wolves, dried out the thawed snow from his back and front, dozed between times, sang to keep the loneliness off, heard the muffled echo come back to him in smothered voice, and at first streak of dawn ran on, and on, and on. By the second night Hall had eaten all his tallow.
"We are a thousand miles from any white-man." "There's nothing impossible on this earth," retorted Radisson impatiently. "But pardieu, there are neither white women in this wilderness, nor ghosts wearing women's boots! I'd give my right hand to know what left that mark!" After that his haste grew feverish. We snatched our meals by turns between paddles.
Some bloomin' foreign kind that no White-man never saw nor heard of before?" "No sir-ree. There ain't anything better 'n White Pine for target and Ash or Hickory for hunting arrows. Which are we making?" "I'm a hunter. Give me huntin' arrows every time. What's needed next?" "Seasoned Ash twenty-five inches long, split to three-eighths of an inch thick, hot glue, and turkey-wing feathers."
He pointed to two figures, more dead than alive, chittering with cold. Le Borgne's foxy eye took on a stolid look. "White men lost in the snow," said he, "white-man from the big white canoe come walkee walkee one two three sleep watchee good Indian friend fort!"
He heard me out with neither liking nor disliking nor any other emotion written upon his face; but when I had finished, as though he suddenly bethought himself, he smiled and held out his hand, white-man fashion. Now, when a man's lips widen I look into his eyes.
Indeed they seem to look down upon the white-man, and perhaps they have good reasons for so doing. If there is no work to be done, they are not at all disconcerted. I very much doubt if a Haida Indian or any other Indian, for that matter knows what it is to be bored or to find the time hanging heavily on his hands.
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