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They gave us readily enough the pipes I asked for Diccon lit one and I the other, and sitting side by side we smoked in a contentment as absolute as the Indians' own With his eyes upon the ance, Diccon told an old story of a piece of Paspahegh villainy and of the payhed as at thein the world The story ended, we smoked with serenity for a while; then I drewto throere at once as ame as if there were no other stake in the world beside the ree people in whose poe found ourselves looked on with grih in Death's face

The sun was high in the heavens e bade the Paround, the es with the curling smoke above them, the warriors and women and brown naked children,--all vanished, and the forest closed around us A high as blowing, and the branches far above beat at one another furiously, while the pendent, leafless vines swayed against us, and the dead leaves went past in the ind Afro the land beneath like a transient cloud We came to a plain covered with very tall trees that had one and all been ringed by the Indians Long dead, and partially stripped of the bark, with their branches, great and saunt and silver gray, ready for their fall As we passed, the wind brought two crashing to the earth In the centre of the plain so--deer or wolf or bear orfrom every quarter of the blue Beyond was a pine wood, silent and direen roof and a sh it for an hour, and it led us to the Pa nothe pines that ran to the water's edge, and tied to the trees that shadowed the slow- flood were its canoes When the people caht fro of roanoke, two of these boats; and weat once, rowed up river toward Uttamussac and its three temples