ORIGIN



OF THE



'Your father



chair,; and answered as he c
the ground: ' My father?
the earth is my mother. I i
  ";-As they excelled in the
sessed a nice sense of the rid
strain of irony, united with
speech of Garangula to De
Canada, when that crafty II
council, for the purpose of o



tion for past injuries.
in the maxim that En
suffire ii y faut coudre
tempted to over-awe t
well knew he had no



who alsc
' Yonond
Quebec, t
render ou
the lakes
surrou nd
us to get



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balm
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till
beat
icul
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requests you to take a
tly disposed hirmself on
Le sun is my father, and
repose upon her bosom.'
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btaining pe



The European, a
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power to t
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was well aware oi n
, you must have bel
at the sun had burned u
co untry inaccessible
ad so overflowed their



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our castles,
ut of them.



dreamed so, and curiosity c
has brouaht you so far. H(
had taken their clubs, our
carried their bows and arro



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I so a-lso they pos-
There is a clever
rpest taunt, il the
I the Governor of



met his tribe in
ace, andrepara-
faithful be Iiever
t du lion ne peut
! du regnard,' at-
,eats, which he
Le. Garangula,



a peat
e celle



by thi
!xecu
is wze
eved
) all t
lo the
bank



akness, replied,
when you left
he forests which
Z French, or that
.s, that they had



L that it was impossible for
is, surely you must have
if seeing so great a wonder
jar, Yonondia: our women
children and old men had
ws into the heart of your



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camnp, if our warriors had not disarmed them, and kept
them back when your messengers came to our castle.'
We cannot give a better idea of the effect of their haran-
gues upon their owIn people, aind at the same time a
fner instance of their gratefulness when skilfully touch-
ed, than in the address to the Wallah Wallabs by their
young chief, the Morning Star. In consequence of the
death of several of their tribe, killed in one of their
predatory excursions aaainst the whites, they had col-
lected in a large body for the purpose of assailing them.
The stern, uncompromising hostility with which they
were animated, may be imagined from the words they



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with the words,



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