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Updated: May 17, 2025
As to provisions, the whites are not like the improvident red-skins, who gorge themselves with food one day and starve for many afterwards. I have spoken. What is it you would have me do?" "The chiefs, on hearing my reply, consulted together. `Listen, said their leader at length. `You will go back to the fort and persuade the white-skins within that we are their friends.
I could see that Boyd also was thinking of this ghastly business, as I caught his sombre eye. He seemed to shudder, then: "Patience," he muttered grimly, with a significant nod toward the Siwanois, who strode silently between our horses. "We have our guide at last. A Siwanois hates the Iroquois no more fiercely than do we white-skins.
"Ah that feeling would be a dangerous companion for a man with white gifts to start with on so solemn a journey," muttered the old man in English. "This is not what the good Moravians said to the councils of the Delawares, nor what is so often preached, to the White-skins in the settlements, though, to the shame of the colour be it said, it is so little heeded.
"Can you say, O white-skins, how the blossoms come on the trees? how the mist fills the air? how the snow melts on the ground?" was his reply. "I heard it; I speak the truth; enough." "But when, friend, are they coming?" asked Short. "Can you say when the thunderbolt will fall? when the tempest is about to burst? where the prairie-fire will break forth?" he replied.
"Ah, I thought so. For it were strange, indeed, and not very creditable to us white-skins, if a little of our blood mixed with the African's, should, far from improving the latter's quality, have the sad effect of pouring vitriolic acid into black broth; improving the hue, perhaps, but not the wholesomeness."
You and those who will thus assist us will gain our friendship, and all you ask shall be given you. "`The great Sioux chief speaks wise words, I answered. `Let me go free, and I'll do your bidding. I have long served the white-skins, and it is time that I should seek new friends. On hearing my reply the chief seemed satisfied.
The path is clear, and the eyes of Mohegan grow young. I look but I see no white-skins ; there are none to be seen but just and brave Indians. Farewell, Hawk-eye you shall go with the Fire-eater and the Young Eagle to the white mans heaven; but I go after my fathers.
"The Sioux are very numerous," continued the hunter, "and there are not only warriors, but women and children among them. They have lately received a severe defeat from the Americans, and have been driven from their hunting-grounds, and have vowed vengeance against all white-skins and their friends.
This was the beginning of difficulties with the French, and also the commencement of the utter destruction of the Natchez. War succeeded war, until the last of this people, few in number, broke up from the Washita, whither they had fled for security years before, and went, as they fondly hoped, too far into the bosom of the deep West to be found again by the white-skins.
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