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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Dost think the deer will live with the wolf, or hast ever found the cowardly pigeon in the nest of the hawk?" "Nay, thou art of different color thyself, Whittal, and it well may be, thou art not alone." The youth regarded his sister a moment with marked displeasure, and then, on turning to eat, he muttered "There is as much fire in snow, as truth in a lying Yengeese?"
"What he hath seen, he tells; and what he tells, is true. Conanchet is not a boy, but a chief whose wisdom is gray, while his limbs are young. Now, why shall not his people take the scalps of these Yengeese, that they may never go any more into holes in the earth, like cunning foxes?" "The Sachem hath a very bloody mind," returned the young chief, quicker than was common for men of his station.
Thou wast once my fellow-lodger, youth, and much pleasure had I in striving to open thy young mind to the truths of our race, and to teach thee to speak with the tongue of a Christian; but years have passed away hark! There cometh one up the path. Hast thou dread of a Yengeese?" The calm mien with which Conanchet had been listening, changed to a cold smile.
"The trail is washed away by the water!" said one from below, who stood so near the artificial cover of the fugitives, that he might have been struck by the salmon-spear that lay in the bottom of Jasper's canoe. "Water has washed it so clear that a Yengeese hound could not follow." "The pale-faces have left the shore in their canoes," answered the speaker on the bank. "It cannot be.
Red man know it fine t'ing then no burn it to tell Yengeese that Iroquois been here. Fader come back, miss blockhouse, no found. No, no; Indian too much cunning; no touch anything." "I understand you, June, and hope your prediction may be true; for, as regards my dear father, should he escape perhaps he is already dead or captured, June?"
"Father," he said, "look at this pale-face; a just man, and the friend of the Delawares." "Is he a son of Minquon?" "Not so; a warrior known to the Yengeese, and feared by the Maquas." "What name has he gained by his deeds?" "We call him Hawkeye," Uncas replied, using the Delaware phrase; "for his sight never fails.
Doth he behold the spirit of the brave Miantonimoh, who died, like a dog, beneath the blows of cowardly Pequots and false-tongued Yengeese? Or does his heart swell, with longing, to see the scalps of treacherous Pale-faces hanging at his belt? Speak, my son; the hatchet hath long been buried in the path between our villages, and thy words will enter the ears of friend."
"Do you know of any means of crossing the lake?" "Got canoe. That good. Canoe go, though Yengeese run." "That in which we came off to the army, do you mean?" The Indian nodded his head, and made a sign for us to follow. Little persuasion was necessary, and we proceeded at his heels, in a body, in the direction he led.
"Did my brother beat out the dogs?" asked Magua, without adverting in any manner to the former equivocation of the chief. "It would not do. The stranger is always welcome to the children of the Lenape." "The stranger, but not the spy." "Would the Yengeese send their women as spies? Did not the Huron chief say he took women in the battle?" "He told no lie. The Yengeese have sent out their scouts.
"He bade his son arise, and go among the Yengeese, that he might return with scalps to hang in his wigwam; for the eyes of the dead chief liked not to see the place so empty. The voice of Conanchet was then too feeble for the council-fire; he said nothing he went alone. An evil spirit gave him into the hands of the Pale-faces. He was a captive many moons.
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