NORTH AMERICAN INDrANS.



chaunted on approaching to the attack



rest-! Yo
will cerise
murderers
shall sing



u. will be avenged.
to flow when they
, and ofl seeing th
and leap with joy.



The tears (
behold the
eir scalps,
Rest, brot



: ' Rest, broth ers,



)f yo
] bloc
you1
hers,



ur widows
)d of your
r children
in peace !



Rest, we shall have blood!' The last strains of the
death-song had' died away. The gleaming eye, burn-
ing with the desire of -revenge -the countenance, fierce
even through an Indian's cloalk--the levelled gun and
poised arrow, forbade promise of peace, and their supe-
rior force as little hope of successful resistance. At this
moment of awful excitement, a mounted troop burst in
between then, and its leader addressed his kindred:
'Friends and relations! rrhree snows have only pnssed
over our heads, since we were a poor, miserable pe ople.
Our enemies were numerous and powerful; we were
few and weak. Our hearts were as the hearts of chil-
dren. We could not fiaht like warriors, and were driven
like deer about the plain. When the thunder rolled,
and the rains poured, we had no place save the rocks,



where
now?
of our
lie buh
now a
white



on we
No!
fathers
ried; o
nation.
man!



could lay
We have r
, in which t
ur hearts ar,
  Who has



0
e
h
e
I1



or hea
grained
ey and
great /
)roduce



          A
And are we to treat



never rob a friend.'
was a complete revu
were quieted, and
smoked the calumet
Morning Star alone
  " Fearlessness an
titles to honor, and



ds.  Is such the case
possession of the land
I. their fathers' fathers
wvithin us, and we are
Ad this change ?I The
him with ingratitude?
I and great heart twill



The result was wonderful.
Msion of feeling. The angry
the savage, forgetting his er
with those whom the eloque'
had saved from his scalping
d success in battle were the h
an accusation of cowardice



P



There
waves
I mity,
nrce of
knife.
jaio-hest
was a



deadly insult. A reproach of this kind to a celebrated
chief received a chivalric reply. Kofynethagecton, or,
as he was more generally called, White Eyes, at the
time his nation was solicited to join in the war against



221



The warrior with the strong arm



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