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Updated: June 15, 2025
It must not be supposed that the Indian applied the word "beast" to Magadar in that objectionable and slangy way in which it is used among ourselves. Indians happily have no slang. They are not civilised enough for that. Mozwa merely meant to express his opinion that Magadar's nature was more allied to that of the lower than of the higher animals.
I exclaimed, turning abruptly to Big Otter. "Attick has fled," said the Indian, sternly, "carrying Waboose and her mother along with him." "And you sit here idly talking," I exclaimed, almost fiercely, as I sprang up. Before I could take action of any kind, the young Indian, Mozwa, entered the tent abruptly, and said a few words to Muskrat. At the same moment the councillors rose.
Landing near the old chief's hut, they drew up their canoe and Nazinred and Mozwa went to announce their arrival. It was contrary to Indian etiquette to betray excitement, or to ask hasty questions. They saluted the old man, handed him a plug of tobacco, and sat down to smoke, and it was not till some time had elapsed that Nazinred calmly asked if Isquay was well.
"Nay, old chief, you mistake me, I will take no braves with me." "No matter," returned Muskrat; "doubtless the white men and their guns will be more than a match for our red foes." "Still you misunderstand," said Lumley. "I am no warrior, but a man of peace. I shall go without guns or knives and alone, except that I will ask young Mozwa to guide me."
"You are a fool," said Nazinred one day to his friend for even among savages there are plain-spoken familiar friends gifted with common sense enough to recognise folly, and spiritual honesty to point it out and warn against it. "Why does my brother say so?" asked Mozwa, who was not in the least offended by the observation.
A superhuman effort might yet save them from being swept back to the point far below that from which they had started. Mozwa was just the man to make such an effort. Nazinred and the others were pre-eminently the men to back him up. "Ho!" cried Mozwa. "Hoi!" shouted Nazinred, as they bent their backs and cracked their sinews, and made the big veins stand up on their necks and foreheads.
They were prepared to fight at a moment's notice. The red flames gleamed on their dusky faces, and glittered in their glancing eyes, as Lumley and Mozwa strode boldly into the circle, and stood before the chief. Intense surprise filled the hearts of the warriors at this unexpected apparition of a white man, but not an eye or muscle betrayed the smallest symptom of the feeling.
Now that the sea had set fast, however, his difficulty was removed, and he resolved to undertake the journey on foot. Well he knew that no man of his tribe, not even Mozwa, would agree to accompany him on such a wild-goose chase. He therefore not only refrained from making to any of them the proposal, but avoided any allusion to his intentions.
"You'll want that," suggested Mowat, as he threw a small thick blanket quite a miniature blanket towards Mozwa, "your small boy will want it." "Ho!" exclaimed the Indian, with a look of surprise in spite of himself, "how do you know?" "I didn't know. I only guessed; but your question shows me I'm right. Any more?" "Yes, two more, but bigger."
While the latter kindled a fire, arranged the camp, and prepared supper under a spreading tree, the former mended the canoe. The process was simple, and soon completed. From a roll of birch-bark, always carried in canoes for such emergencies, Mozwa cut off a piece a little larger than the hole it was designed to patch.
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