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I had before this spent days aes of discovery, as conqueror, as negotiator for food, exchanging blue beads for corn and turkeys Other English those e dealt for sly and fierce heathen, friends to-day, to-morrow deadly foes, we kept our muskets ready and our eyes and ears open, and, ith the danger and the novelty and the bold wild life, ed to extract some merriment as well as profit from these visits It was different now
Day after day I ateand the hunting and the trius and wilder dances, the fantastic reat fires with their rings of painted warriors, the sleepless sentinels, the wide ht, the leaves that rustled so loudly beneath the lightest footfall, the rief, of her peril, maybe,--it was an evil dream, and for my own pleasure I could not wake too soon
Should we ever wake? Should we not sink from that dream without pause into a deeper sleep whence there would be no waking? It was a question that I askedto find another holloeen the hills before the night should fall The night fell, and there was no change in the dream
I will allow that the dark Eave us courteous keeping The best of the hunt was ours, the noblest fish, the most delicate roots The skins beneath which we slept were fine and soft; the women waited upon us, and the oldbeneath the budding trees with the blue tobacco s above our heads We were alive and sound of liht have waited, seeing that e must, in some measure of content We did not so There was a horror in the air Froish river, fro leaves and cold black earth and naked forest, it rose like an exhalation We knew not what it was, but we breathed it in, and it went to the h ere bestowed so near to hiod, he kept within his lodge with the winding passage, and the hanging mats between hi from that retirement, he would stride away into the forest Picked one for hours; but when they returned they bore no trophies, brute or huht have hadafter our arrival in this village the Emperor sent him upon an embassy to the Rappahannocks, and when for the fourth tiainst the sunset he had not returned If escape had been possible, ould not have awaited the doubtful fulfillment of that proilance of the Indians never slept; they watched us like hawks, night and day And the dry leaves underfoot would not hold their peace, and there were the marshes to cross and the river