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Again and again I was on the point of ordering a halt and having the fellow tried; but I dreaded the effect of such summary proceedings on the Oneidas and the Stockbridge, whose sense of justice was keen, and who might view with alarm such punishment meted out to mere stupidity. It was very evident that neither they nor my Mohican had come to any definite conclusion concerning the Wyandotte.
And their perverted Erie priesthood, which had debauched some of their own Sachems, was a stench in the nostrils of any orthodox Sachem, and, to an ordained Sagamore, an offense and sacrilege unspeakable. I sat looking hard at the Wyandotte, inclined to speak, yet unwilling to meddle where intervention must be useless. His small, unwinking eyes met mine.
Clearly the man was a fool, or something else. And I was obliged to halt the file and wait until the Wyandotte had changed to spare moccasins; which I am bound to say he seemed to do willingly enough. And my belief in his crass stupidity grew, relieving me of fiercer sentiments which I had begun to harbour as I thought of all we knew or suspected concerning this man.
"A story is told of a slave "Monk Estill" who helped or rather belonged to Col. James Estill of Madison County. In 1782 in a battle known as Estill's defeat, which occured on the grounds where Mt. Sterling now stands in Montgomery County, Col. Estill and twenty-five men attacked a party of Wyandotte Indians by whom the slave was taken prisoner.
"Press on, then, Wyandotté, for the sake of God let me, at least, die in defence of my beloved mother!" "Moder; good! Doctor Tuscarora, when death grin in face! She my moder, too!" This was said energetically, and in a manner to assure his listeners that they had a firm ally in this warlike savage.
Well for dog 'tis so. Too mean for Wyandotté to touch. What cap'in come for? Eh! Better tell chief get council widout lightin' fire." "As I see no use in concealing my plan from you, Wyandotté," Nick seemed pleased whenever this name was pronounced by others "I shall tell it you, freely. Still, you have more to relate to me. Why are you here? And how came you to discover us?"
After descending steep cliffs and climbing rugged rocks until past noon, we returned for dinner; but before it was finished the stage came along, and I took it for Wyandotte, where we arrived late in the evening. The weather for October was cold, and freezing quite hard. When I informed Mrs.
Getz stared at her almost in consternation. Never before in her life had she seen Tillie laugh with such abandon. "What ails you?" she asked wonderingly. Tillie could find no voice to answer, her slight frame shaking convulsively. "What you laughin' at, anyhow?" Mrs. Getz repeated, now quite frightened. "That that Wyandotte hen jumped up on the sill!"
The Oneida youth had now braided and oiled his scalp and was stretching it on a willow hoop, very busy with the pride and importance of his work. I glanced at Mayaro and caught a gleam of faint amusement in his eyes; but his features remained expressionless enough, and it seemed to me that his covert glance rested on the Wyandotte more often than on anybody.
Then shall the Oneida, Grey-Feather, mark clearly the tree so doubly designated. The Oneida, Tahoontowhee, covers our right flank, marching abreast of the Mohican; the Wyandotte, Black-Snake, covers our left flank, keeping the river bank in view. March!"
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