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  Speaker 1: With his success or too much occupied with his secret
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  Speaker 1: purposes to push his inquiries any further. Shaking his mantle
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  Speaker 1: and folding it on his bosom, he also quitted the
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  Speaker 1: place without pursuing a subject which might have proved so
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  Speaker 1: fatal to the individual at his elbow. Notwithstanding his rising resentment,
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  Speaker 1: his natural firmness, and his anxiety on behalf of Uncas,
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  Speaker 1: Heyward felt sensibly relieved by the absence of so dangerous
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  Speaker 1: and so subtle a foe. The excitement produced by the
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  Speaker 1: speech gradually subsided. The warriors resumed their seats, and clouds
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  Speaker 1: of smoke once more filled the lodge. For near half
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  Speaker 1: an hour, not a syllable was uttered, or scarcely a
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  Speaker 1: look cast aside, a grave and meditative silence being the
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  Speaker 1: ordinary succession to every scene of violence and commotion among
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  Speaker 1: these beings, who were alike so impetuous and yet so
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  Speaker 1: self restrained. When the chief who had solicited the aid
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  Speaker 1: of Duncan finished his pipe, he made a final and
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  Speaker 1: successful movement toward departing. A motion of a finger was
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  Speaker 1: the intimation he gave the supposed physician to follow, and,
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  Speaker 1: passing through the clouds of smoke, duncad was glad on
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  Speaker 1: more accounts than one to be able at last to
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  Speaker 1: breathe the pure air of a cool and refreshing summer evening.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of pursuing his way among those lodges where Heyward
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  Speaker 1: had already made his unsuccessful search, his companion turned aside
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  Speaker 1: and proceeded directly toward the base of an adjacent mountain
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  Speaker 1: which overhung the temporary village. A thicket of brush skirted
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  Speaker 1: its foot, and it became necessary to proceed through a
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  Speaker 1: crooked and narrow path. The boys had resumed their sports
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  Speaker 1: in the clearing and were enacting a mimic chase to
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  Speaker 1: the post among themselves. In order to render their games
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  Speaker 1: as like the reality as possible. One of the boldest
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  Speaker 1: of their number had conveyed a few brands into some
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  Speaker 1: piles of tree tops that had hitherto escaped the burning.
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  Speaker 1: The blaze of one of these fires lighted the way
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  Speaker 1: of the Chief and Duncan, and gave a character of
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  Speaker 1: additional wildness to the rude scenery. At a little distance
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  Speaker 1: from a bald rock and directly in its front, they
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  Speaker 1: entered a grassy opening, which they prepared to cross. Just
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  Speaker 1: then fresh fuel was added to the fire and a
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  Speaker 1: powerful light penetrated even to that distant spot. It fell
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  Speaker 1: upon the white surface of the mountain, and was reflected
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  Speaker 1: downward upon a dark and mysterious looking being that arose
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  Speaker 1: unexpectedly in their path. The Indian paused, as if doubtful
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  Speaker 1: weather to proceed, and permitted his companion to approach his side.
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  Speaker 1: A large black ball, which at first seemed stationary, now
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  Speaker 1: began to move in a manner that, to the latter
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  Speaker 1: was inexplicable. Again, the fire brightened, and its glare fell
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  Speaker 1: more distinctly on the object. Then even Duncan knew it
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  Speaker 1: by its restless and sidling attitudes, which kept the upper
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  Speaker 1: part of its form in constant motion. While the animal
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  Speaker 1: itself appeared seated to be a bear. Though it growled
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  Speaker 1: loudly and fiercely, and there were instants when its glistening
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  Speaker 1: eyeballs might be seen, it gave no other indications of hostility.
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  Speaker 1: The Huron at least seemed assured that the intentions of
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  Speaker 1: this singular intruder were peaceable, for after giving it an
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  Speaker 1: attentive examination, he quietly pursued his course. Duncan, who knew
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  Speaker 1: that the animal was often domesticated among the Indians followed
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  Speaker 1: the example of his companion. Believing that some favorite of
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  Speaker 1: the tribe had found its way into the thicket in
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  Speaker 1: search of food. They passed it unmolested, though obliged to
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  Speaker 1: come nearly in contact with the monster. The Huron, who
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  Speaker 1: had at first so warily determined the character of his
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  Speaker 1: strange visitor, was now content with proceeding without wasting a
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  Speaker 1: moment in further examination. But Heyward was unable to prevent
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  Speaker 1: his eyes from looking backward in salutary watchfulness against attacks
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  Speaker 1: in the rear. His uneasiness was in no degree diminished.
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  Speaker 1: When he perceived the beast rolling along their path and
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  Speaker 1: following their footsteps, he would have spoken, but the Indian
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  Speaker 1: at that moment shoved aside a door of bark and
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  Speaker 1: entered a cavern in the bosom of the mountain, profiting
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  Speaker 1: by so easy a man fit of retreat. Duncan stepped
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  Speaker 1: after him, and was gladly closing the slight cover to
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  Speaker 1: the opening when he felt it drawn from his hand
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  Speaker 1: by the beast, whose shaggy form immediately darkened the passage.
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  Speaker 1: They were now in a straight and long gallery in
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  Speaker 1: a chasm of the rocks, where retreat without encountering the
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  Speaker 1: animal was impossible. Making the best of the circumstances, the
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  Speaker 1: young man pressed forward, keeping as close as possible to
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  Speaker 1: his conductor. The bear growled frequently at his heels, and
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  Speaker 1: once or twice its enormous paws were laid on his person,
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  Speaker 1: as if disposed to prevent his further passage into the den.
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  Speaker 1: How long the nerves of Heyward would have sustained him
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  Speaker 1: in this extraordinary situation, it might be difficult to decide.
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  Speaker 1: For Happily, he soon found relief. A glimmer of light
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  Speaker 1: had constantly been in their front, and they now arrived
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  Speaker 1: at the place. Whence it proceeded. A large cavity in
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  Speaker 1: the rock had been rudely fitted to answer the purposes
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  Speaker 1: of many apartments. The subdivisions were simple but ingenious, being
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  Speaker 1: composed of stone, styx and bark intermingled. Openings above admitted
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  Speaker 1: the light by day, and at night, fires and torches
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  Speaker 1: supplied the place of the sun. Hither the Hurons had
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  Speaker 1: brought most of their valuables, especially those which more particularly
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  Speaker 1: pertained to the nation. And hither, as it now appeared,
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  Speaker 1: the sick woman, who was believed to be the victim
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  Speaker 1: of supernatural power had been transported, also under an impression
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  Speaker 1: that her tormentor would find more difficulty in making his
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  Speaker 1: assaults through walls of stone than through the leafy coverings
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  Speaker 1: of the lodges. The apartment into which Duncan and his
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  Speaker 1: guide first entered had been exclusively devoted to her accommodation.
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  Speaker 1: The latter approached her bedside, which was surrounded by females
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  Speaker 1: in the center of whom Heyward was surprised to find
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  Speaker 1: his missing friend David. A single look was sufficient to
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  Speaker 1: apprise the pretended leech that the invalid was far beyond
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  Speaker 1: his powers of healing. She lay in a sort of paralysis,
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  Speaker 1: indifferent to the objects which crowded before her sight, and
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  Speaker 1: happily unconscious of suffering. Heyward was far from regretting that
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  Speaker 1: his mummeries were to be performed on one who was
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  Speaker 1: much too ill to take an interest in their failure
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  Speaker 1: or success. The slight qualm of conscience which had been
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  Speaker 1: excited by the intended deception, was instantly appeased, and he
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  Speaker 1: began to collect his thoughts in order to enact his
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  Speaker 1: part with suitable spirit. When he found he was about
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  Speaker 1: to be anticipated in his skill by an attempt to
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  Speaker 1: prove the power of music. Gammut, who had stood prepared
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  Speaker 1: to pour forth his spirit in song when the visitors entered,
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  Speaker 1: after delaying a moment, drew a strain from his pipe
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  Speaker 1: and commenced to him that might have worked a miracle,
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  Speaker 1: had faith in its efficacy been of much avail. He
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  Speaker 1: was allowed to proceed to the close, the Indians, respecting
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  Speaker 1: his imaginary infirmity, and Duncan, too, glad of the delay,
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  Speaker 1: to hazard the slightest interruption. As the dying cadence of
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  Speaker 1: his strains was falling on the years of the latter,
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  Speaker 1: he started aside at hearing them repeated behind him in
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  Speaker 1: a voice half human and half sepulchral. Looking around, he
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  Speaker 1: beheld the shaggy monster seated on end in a shadow
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  Speaker 1: of the cavern, where while his restless body swung in
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  Speaker 1: the uneasy manner of the animal, it repeated in a
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  Speaker 1: sort of low growl, sounds, if not words, which bore
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  Speaker 1: some slight resemblance to the melody of the singer. The
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  Speaker 1: effect of so strange an echo on David may better
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  Speaker 1: be imagined than described. His eyes opened as if he
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  Speaker 1: doubted their truth, and his voice became instantly mute in
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  Speaker 1: excess of wonder, A deep laid scheme of communicating some
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  Speaker 1: important intelligence to Heyward was driven from his recollection by
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  Speaker 1: an emotion which very nearly resembled fear, but which he
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  Speaker 1: was fain to believe was admiration. Under its influence, he
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed aloud, she expects you and is at hand, and
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  Speaker 1: precipitately left the cavern. Chapter twenty five, snug dot have
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  Speaker 1: you the lion's part written, pray you, if it be,
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  Speaker 1: give it to me, for I am slow of study.
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  Speaker 1: Quince dot you. He may do it extemporary, for it
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  Speaker 1: is nothing but roaring midsummer night's dream. There was a
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  Speaker 1: strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was solemn.
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  Speaker 1: In this scene. The beast still continued its rolling and
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  Speaker 1: apparently untiring movements, though its ludicrous attempt to imitate the
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  Speaker 1: melody of David ceased the instant the latter abandoned the field.
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  Speaker 1: The words of Gamut were as has been seen in
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  Speaker 1: his native tongue, and to Duncan they seemed pregnant with
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  Speaker 1: some hidden meaning, though nothing present assisted him in discovering
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  Speaker 1: the object of their illusion. A speedy end was however,
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  Speaker 1: put to every conjecture on the subject by the manner
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  Speaker 1: of the chief, who advanced to the bedside of the
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  Speaker 1: invalid and beckoned away the whole group of female attendants
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  Speaker 1: that had clustered there to witness the skill of the stranger.
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  Speaker 1: He was implicitly, though reluctantly obeyed, And when the low
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  Speaker 1: echo which rang along the hollow natural gallery from the
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  Speaker 1: distant closing door, had ceased, pointing toward his insensible daughter,
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  Speaker 1: he said, now let my brother show his power. Thus
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  Speaker 1: unequivocally called on to exercise the functions of his assumed character,
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  Speaker 1: Heyward was apprehensive that the smallest delay might prove dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: endeavoring then to collect his ideas, he prepared to perform
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  Speaker 1: that species of incantation and those uncouth rites under which
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  Speaker 1: the Indian conjurers are accustomed to conceal their ignorance and impotency.
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  Speaker 1: It is more than probable that, in the disordered state
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  Speaker 1: of his thoughts, he would soon have fallen into some suspicious,
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  Speaker 1: if not fatal error. Had not his incipient attempts been
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  Speaker 1: interrupted by a fierce growl from the quadruped three several
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  Speaker 1: times did he renew his efforts to proceed and as
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  Speaker 1: often was he met by the same unaccountable opposition, each
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  Speaker 1: interruption seeming more savage and threatening than the preceding. The
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  Speaker 1: cunning ones are jealous, said the Huron. I go, brother,
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  Speaker 1: the woman is the wife of one of my bravest
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  Speaker 1: young men. Deal justly by her peace, he added, beckoning
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  Speaker 1: to the discontented east to be quiet. I go. The
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  Speaker 1: chief was as good as his word, And Duncan now
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  Speaker 1: found himself alone in that wild and desolate abode, with
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  Speaker 1: the helpless invalid and the fierce and dangerous brute. The
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  Speaker 1: latter listened to the movements of the Indian with that
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  Speaker 1: air of sagacity that a bear is known to possess,
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  Speaker 1: until another echo announced that he had also left the cavern.
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  Speaker 1: When it turned and came waddling up to Duncan, before
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  Speaker 1: whom it seated itself in its natural attitude, erect like
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  Speaker 1: a man. The youth looked anxiously about him for some
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  Speaker 1: weapon with which he might make a resistance against the
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  Speaker 1: attack he now seriously expected. It seemed, however, as if
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  Speaker 1: the humor of the animal had suddenly changed, instead of
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  Speaker 1: continuing its discontented growls or manifesting any further signs of anger.
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  Speaker 1: The whole of its shaggy body shook violently, as if
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  Speaker 1: agitated by some strange internal convulsion. The huge and unwieldy
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  Speaker 1: talons pawed stupidly about the grinning muzzle, and while Heyward
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  Speaker 1: kept his eyes riveted on its movements with jealous watchfulness,
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  Speaker 1: the grim head fell on one side, and in its
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  Speaker 1: place appeared the honest, sturdy countenance of the scout, who
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  Speaker 1: was indulging from the bottom of his soul in his
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  Speaker 1: own peculiar expression of merriment. Illustration hissed, said the werry woodsman,
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  Speaker 1: interrupting Heyward's exclamation of surprise. The varlets are about the place,
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  Speaker 1: and any sounds that are not natural to witchcraft would
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  Speaker 1: bring them back upon us in a body. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: the meaning of this masquerade, and why you have attempted
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  Speaker 1: so desperate an adventure. Ah, Reason and calculation are often
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  Speaker 1: outdone by accident, returned the scout, But as a story
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  Speaker 1: should always commence at the beginning, I will tell you
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  Speaker 1: the hole in order. After we parted, I placed the
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  Speaker 1: common dant and the sagamore in an old beaver lodge,
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  Speaker 1: where they are safer from the hurons than they would
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  Speaker 1: be in the garrison of Edward, for your high Northwest Indians,
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  Speaker 1: not having as yet got the traders among them, continued
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  Speaker 1: to venerate the beaver, after which Uncas and I pushed
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  Speaker 1: for the other encampment as was agreed. Have you seen
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  Speaker 1: the lad to my great grief, he is captive and
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  Speaker 1: condemned to die at the rising of the sun. I
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  Speaker 1: had misgivings that such would be his fate, resumed the
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  Speaker 1: scout in a less confident and joyous tone, but soon
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  Speaker 1: regaining his naturally firm voice, he continued, his bad fortune
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  Speaker 1: is the true reason of my being here. For it
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  Speaker 1: would never do to abandon such a boy to the Hurons.
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  Speaker 1: A rare time the knaves would have of it? Could
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  Speaker 1: they tie the bounding Elk and the long Caribin, as
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  Speaker 1: they call me, to the same stake. Though why they
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  Speaker 1: have given me such a name, I never knew, there
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  Speaker 1: being as little likeness between the gifts of Kildeer and
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  Speaker 1: the performance of one of your real Canada carabines as
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  Speaker 1: there is between the natur of a pipe stone and
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  Speaker 1: a flint. Keep to your tail, said the impatient Heyward.
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  Speaker 1: We know not at what moment the Hurons may return
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  Speaker 1: no fear of them. A conjurer must have his time
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  Speaker 1: like a straggling priest. In the settlements, we are as
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  Speaker 1: safe from interruption as a missionary would be. At the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of a two hours discourse, well uncas, and I
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  Speaker 1: fell in with a return party of the varlets. The
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  Speaker 1: lad was much too forward for a scout, nay, for
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  Speaker 1: that matter, being of hot blood, he was not so
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  Speaker 1: much to blame. And after all one of the Hurons
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  Speaker 1: proved a coward, and in fleeing, led him into an ambushment.
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  Speaker 1: And dearly has he paid for the weakness. The scout
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  Speaker 1: significantly passed his hand across his own throat and nodded
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  Speaker 1: as if he said, I comprehend your meaning, after which
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  Speaker 1: he continued in a more audible, though scarcely more intelligible language.
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  Speaker 1: After the loss of the boy, I turned upon the Hurons.
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  Speaker 1: As you may judge, there have been scrimmages between one
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  Speaker 1: or two of their outliers and myself, but that is
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  Speaker 1: neither here nor there. So after I had shot the imps,
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  Speaker 1: I got in pretty nigh to the lodges without further commotion.
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  Speaker 1: Then what should luck do in my favor but lead
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  Speaker 1: me to the very spot where one of the most
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  Speaker 1: famous conjurers of the tribe were dressing himself, as I
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  Speaker 1: well knew, for some great battle with Satan. Though why
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  Speaker 1: should I call that luck, which it now seems was
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  Speaker 1: an especial ordering of providence. So a judgematical wrap over
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  Speaker 1: the head, stiffened the lying impostor for a time, and
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  Speaker 1: leaving him a bit of walnut for his supper to
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  Speaker 1: prevent an uproar, and stringing him up between two saplings,
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  Speaker 1: I made free with his finery and took the part
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  Speaker 1: of the bear on myself in order that the operations
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  Speaker 1: might proceed. And admirably did you enact the character the
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  Speaker 1: animal itself? Might have been shamed by the representation? Lord
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  Speaker 1: Major returned the flattered woodsman should be but a poor
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  Speaker 1: scholar for one who has studied so long in the wilderness?
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  Speaker 1: Did I not know how to set forth the movements
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  Speaker 1: or nature of such a beast? Had it been now
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  Speaker 1: a catamount, or even a full sized panther, I would
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  Speaker 1: have embellished a performance for you worth regarding. But it
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  Speaker 1: is no such marvelous feat to exhibit the feats of
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  Speaker 1: so dull a beast, Though for that matter, too a
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  Speaker 1: bear may be overacted, Yes, yes, it is not. Every
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  Speaker 1: imitator that knows nature may be outdone easier than she
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  Speaker 1: is equalled. But all our work is yet before us.
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  Speaker 1: Where is the gentle one? Heaven knows? I have examined
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  Speaker 1: every lodge in the village without discovering the slightest trace
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  Speaker 1: of her presence in the tribe. You heard what the
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  Speaker 1: singer said as he left us. She is at hand
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  Speaker 1: and expects you. I have been compelled to believe. He
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  Speaker 1: alluded to this unhappy woman. The simpleton was frightened and
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  Speaker 1: blundered through his message. But he had a deeper meaning.
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  Speaker 1: Here are walls enough to separate the whole settlement. A
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  Speaker 1: bear ought to climb. Therefore, will I take a look
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  Speaker 1: above them? There may be honey pots hid in these rocks,
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  Speaker 1: And I am a beast you know, that has a
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  Speaker 1: hankering for the sweets. The scout looked behind him, laughing
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  Speaker 1: at his own conceit, while he clambered up the partition,
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  Speaker 1: imitating as he went the clumsy motions of the beast
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  Speaker 1: he represented. But the instant the summit was gained, he
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  Speaker 1: made a gesture for silence and slid down with the
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  Speaker 1: utmost precipitation. She is here, he whispered, and by that
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  Speaker 1: door you will find her. I would have spoken a
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  Speaker 1: word of comfort to the afflicted soul, but the sight
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  Speaker 1: of such a monster might upset her. Reason though for
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  Speaker 1: that matter, Major, you are none of the most inviting
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  Speaker 1: yourself in your paint. Duncan, who had already swung eagerly forward,
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  Speaker 1: drew instantly back on hearing these discouraging words. Am I
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  Speaker 1: then so very revolting? He demanded, with an air of chagrin.
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  Speaker 1: You might not startle a wolf or turn the Royal
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  Speaker 1: Americans from a discharge, but I have seen the time
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  Speaker 1: when you had a better favored look. Your streaked countenances
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  Speaker 1: are not ill judged of by the squaws, but young
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  Speaker 1: women of white blood give the preference to their own color. See,
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  Speaker 1: he added, pointing to a place where the water trickled
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  Speaker 1: from a rock, forming a little crystal spring before it
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  Speaker 1: found an issue through the adjacent crevices. You may easily
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the Sagamore's daub, and when you come back,
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  Speaker 1: I will try my hand at a new embellishment. It's
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  Speaker 1: as common for a conjurre to alter his paint as
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  Speaker 1: for a buck in the settlements to change his finery.
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  Speaker 1: The deliberate woodsman had little occasion to hunt for arguments
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  Speaker 1: to enforce his advice. He was yet speaking when Duncan
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  Speaker 1: availed himself of the water. In a moment, every frightful
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  Speaker 1: or offensive mark was obliterated, and the youth appeared again
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  Speaker 1: in the lineaments with which he had been gifted by nature.
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  Speaker 1: Thus prepared for an interview with his mistress, he took
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  Speaker 1: a hasty leave of his companion and disappeared through the
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  Speaker 1: indicated passage. The scout witnessed his departure with complacency, nodding
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  Speaker 1: his head after him and muttering his good wishes, after
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  Speaker 1: which he very coolly set about an examination of the
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  Speaker 1: state of the larder. Among the Hurons, the cavern, among
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  Speaker 1: other purposes, being used as a receptacle for the fruits
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  Speaker 1: of their hunts. Duncan had no other guide than a distant,
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  Speaker 1: glimmering light, which served, however, the office of a pull
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  Speaker 1: or star to the lover. By its aid, he was
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  Speaker 1: enabled to enter the haven of his hopes, which was
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  Speaker 1: merely another apartment of the cavern that had been solely
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  Speaker 1: appropriated to the safe keeping of so important a prisoner,
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  Speaker 1: as a daughter of the commandant of William Henry, it
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  Speaker 1: was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: In the midst of this confusion, he found her. He sought, pale,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: anxious and terrified, but lovely David had prepared her for
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: such a visit. Duncan, she exclaimed, in a voice that
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: seemed to tremble at the sounds created by itself. Alice,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: he answered, leaping carelessly among trunks, boxes, arms, and furniture
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: until he stood at her side. I knew that you
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: would never desert me, she said, looking up with a
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: momentary glow on her otherwise dejected countenance. But you are alone,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: grateful as it is to be thus remembered, I could
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: wish to think you are not entirely alone. Duncan, observing
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: that she trembled in a manner which betrayed her inability
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: to stand, gently induced her to be seated while he
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: recounted those leading incidents which it has been our task
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: to accord. Alice listened with breathless interest, and though the
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: young man touched lightly on the sorrows of the stricken father,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: taking care, however, not to wound the self love of
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: his auditor. The tears ran as freely down the cheeks
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: of the daughter as though she had never wept before.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: The soothing tenderness of Duncan, however, soon quieted the first
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: burst of her emotions, and she then heard him to
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the close with undivided attention, if not with composure and
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: now alice, he added, you will see how much is
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: still expected of you. By the assistance of our experienced
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and invaluable friend, the scout, we may find our way
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: from this savage people, but you will have to exert
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: your utmost fortitude. Remember that you fly to the arms
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: of your venerable parent, and how much his happiness as
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: well as your own, depends on those exertions. Can I
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: do otherwise for a father who has done so so
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: much for me? And for me too, continued the youth,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: gently pressing the hand he held in both his own.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: The look of innocence and surprise, which he received in return,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: convinced Duncan of the necessity of being more explicit. This
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: is neither the place nor the occasion to detain you
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: with selfish wishes, he added, But what heart loaded like
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: mine would not wish to cast its burden. They say,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: misery is the closest of all ties. Our common suffering
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: in your behalf left but little to be explained between
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: your father and myself and dearest Cora. Duncan. Surely Cora
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: was not forgotten, not forgotten, no regretted, as woman was
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: seldom mourned before. Your venerable father knew no difference between
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: his children. But I, Alice, you will not be offended
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: when I say that to me, her worth was in
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: a degree obscured. Then you knew not the merit of
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: my sister, said Alice, withdrawing her hand of you, she
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: ever speaks as of one who is her dearest friend.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I would gladly believe her such, returned Duncan hastily. I
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: could wish her to be even more. But with you, Alice,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I have the permission of your father to aspire to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: a still nearer and dearer tie. Alice trembled violently, and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: there was an instant during which she bent her face aside,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: yielding to the emotions common to her sex. But they
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: quickly passed away, leaving her mistress of her deportment, if
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: not of her affections. Heyward, she said, looking him full
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in the face with a touching expression of innocence and dependency.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Give me the sacred presents and the holy sanction of
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: that parent before you urge me further. Though more I
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: should not, lest I could not say. The youth was
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: about to answer when he was interrupted by a light
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: tap on his shoulder. Starting to his feet, he turned, and,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: confronting the intruder, his looks fell on the dark form
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: and malignant visage of Magua. The deep, guttural laugh of
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the savage sounded at such a moment to Duncan, like
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the hellish taunt of a demon. Had he pursued the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: sun uton and fierce impulse of the instant, he would
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: have cast himself on the huron and committed their fortunes
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to the issue of a deadly struggle. But without arms
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: of any description. Ignorant of what succor his subtle enemy
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: could command, and charged with the safety of one who
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: was just then dearer than ever to his heart, he
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: no sooner entertained than he abandoned the desperate intention. What
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: is your purpose? Said Alice, meekly, folding her arms on
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: her bosom and struggling to conceal an agony of apprehension
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: in behalf of Heyward. In the usual cold and distant
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: manner with which she received the visits of her captor.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: The exulting Indian had resumed his austere countenance, though he
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: drew warily back before the menacing glance of the young
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: man's fiery eye. He regarded both his captives for a
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: moment with a steady look, and then, stepping aside, he
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: dropped a log of would across a door different from
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: that by which Duncan had entered. The latter. Now comprehended
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the manner of his surprise, and believing himself irretrievably lost,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: he drew alice to his bosom and stood prepared to
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: meet a fate which he hardly regretted, since it was
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to be suffered in such company. But Magua meditated no
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: immediate violence. His first measures were very evidently taken to
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: secure his new captive, nor did he even bestow a
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: second glance at the motionless forms in the center of
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the cavern until he had completely cut off every hope
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: of retreat through the private outlet he had himself used.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: He was watched in all his movements by Heyward, who however,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: remained firm, still folding the fragile form of alice to
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: his heart, at once too proud and too hopeless to
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: ask favor of an enemy so often foiled. When Magua
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: had affected his object, he approached his prisoners and said,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: in English, the pale faces trapped the cunning beavers, but
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the red skins know how to take the Yengeese. Huron,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: do your worst, exclaimed the excited Heyward, forgetful that a
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: double stake was involved in his life. You and your
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: vengeance are alike despised. Will the white man speak these
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: words at the stake, asked Magua, manifesting at the same
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: time how little faith he had in the other's resolution
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: by the sneer that accompanied his words. Here singly to
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: your face or in the presence of your nation. Lou
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Renard's subtle is a great chief, returned the Indian. He
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: will go and bring his young men to see how
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: bravely a pale face can laugh at tortures. He turned
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: away while speaking, and was about to leave the place
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: through the avenue by which Duncan had approached, when a
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: growl caught his ear and caused him to hesitate. The
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: figure of the bear appeared in the door, where it sat,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: rolling from side to side in its customary restlessness. Magua,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: like the father of the sick woman, eyed it keenly
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: for a moment, as if to ascertain its character. He
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: was far above the more vulgar superstitions of his tribe,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and so soon as he recognized the well known attire
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: of the conjurer, he prepared to pass it in cool contempt.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: But a louder and more threatening growl caused him again
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: to Then he seemed as if suddenly resolved to trifle
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: no longer, and moved resolutely forward. The mimic animal, which
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: had advanced a little, retired slowly in his front, until
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: it arrived again at the pass. When rearing on his
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: hinder legs, it beat the air with its paws in
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the manner practiced by its brutal prototype. Fool exclaimed the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: chief in Huron, go play with the children and squaws,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: leave men to their wisdom. He once more endeavored to
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: pass the supposed empiric scorning, even the parade of threatening
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to use the knife or tomahawk that was pendent from
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: his belt. Suddenly the beast extended its arms, or rather
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: legs and enclosed him in a grasp that might have
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: vied with the far famed power of the bear's hug itself.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Heyward had watched the whole procedure on the part of
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Hawkeye with breathless interest. At first he relinquished his hold
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of alice. Then he caught up a thong of buckskin
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: which had been used around some bundle, And when he
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: beheld his enemy with his two arms pinned to his
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: side by the iron muscles of the scout, he rushed
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: upon him and effectually secured them. There arms, legs, and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: feet were encircled in twenty folds of the thong in
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: less time than we have taken to record the circumstance.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: When the formidable Huron was completely pinioned, the scout released
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: his hold, and Duncan laid his enemy on his back,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: utterly helpless. Throughout the whole of this sudden and extraordinary operation, Magua,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: though he had struggled violently until assured he was in
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the hands of one whose nerves were far better strung
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: than his own, had not uttered the slightest exclamation. But
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: when Hawkeye, by way of making a summary explanation of
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: his conduct, removed the shaggy jaws of the beast, and
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: exposed his own, rugged and earnest countenance to the gaze
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of the Huron. The philosophy of the latter was so
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: far mastered as to permit him to utter the never
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: failing Hugh. I you found your tongue, set his undisturbed conqueror. Now,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: in order that you shall not use it to ruin
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I must make free to stop your mouth. As there
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: was no time to be lost, the scout immediately set
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: about effecting so necessary a precaution, and when he had
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: gagged the Indian, his enemy might safely have been considered
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: as or de combat By what place did the impenter
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: ask the industrious scout, when his work was ended. Not
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a soul has passed my way since you left me,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Duncan pointed out the door by which Magua had come,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: and which now presented too many obstacles to a quick retreat.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Bring on, the gentle one, then continued his friend. We
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: must make a push for the woods by the other outlet.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Tis impossible, said Duncan. Fear has overcome her and she
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: is helpless. Alice, my suite, my own alice, arouse yourself.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Now is the moment to fly tis in vain. She hears,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: but is unable to follow. Go, noble and worthy friend,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: save yourself and leave me to my fate. Every trail
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson, returned
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the scout. There, wrap her in them indian cloths, conceal
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: all of her little form. Nay, that foot has no
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: fellow in the wilderness. It will betray her all every part.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Now take her in your arms and follow. Leave the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: rest to me. Duncan, as may be gathered from the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: words of his companion, was eagerly obeying, And as the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: other finished speaking, he took the like person of Alice
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in his arms and followed in the footsteps of the scout.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: They found the sick woman as they had left her,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: still alone, and passed swiftly on by the natural gallery
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: to the place of entrance. As they approached the little
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: door of Bark, a murmur of voices without announced that
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the friends and relatives of the invalid were gathered about
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the place, patiently awaiting a summons to re enter. If
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I opened my lips to speak, Hawkeye whispered my English,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: which is the genuine tongue of a white skin will
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: tell the varlets that an enemy is among them. You
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: must give em your jargon major and say that we
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: have shut the evil spirit in the cave and are
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: taking the woman to the woods in order to find
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: strengthening roots. Practice all your cunning, for it is a
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: lawful undertaking. The door opened a little, as if one
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: without was listening to the proceedings within, and compelled the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: scout to cease his directions. A fierce growl repelled the eavesdropper,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and then the scout boldly threw open the covering of
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: bark and left the place, enacting the character of a
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: bear as he proceeded. Duncan kept close at his heels,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and soon found himself in the center of a cluster
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: of twenty anxious relatives and friends. The crowd fell back
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: a little and permitted the father and one who appeared
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: to be the husband of the woman to approach. Has
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: my brother driven away? The evil spirit, demanded the former,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: What has he in his arms? Thy child? Returned Duncan,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and gravely the disease has gone out of her. It
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: is shut up in the rocks. I take the woman
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: to a distance, where I will strengthen her against any
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: further attacks. She will be in the wigwam of the
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: young man when the sun comes again. When the father
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: had translated the meaning of the stranger's words into the
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Huron language, a suppressed murmur announced the satisfaction with which
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: this intelligence was received. The chief himself waved his hand
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: for Duncan to proceed, saying aloud, in a firm voice
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and with a lofty manner, go I am a man,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and I will enter the rock and fight the wicked one.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Heyward had gladly obeyed and was already past the little
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: group when these startling words arrested him. Is my brother mad?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: He exclaimed? Is he cruel? He will meet the disease
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and it will enter him, Or he will drive out
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the disease and it will chase his daughter into the woods.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: No let my children wait without, And if the spirit appears,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: beat him down with clubs. He is cunning and will
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: bury himself in the mountain when he sees how many
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: are ready to fight him. This singular warning had the
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: desired effect. Instead of entering the cavern, the father and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: husband drew their tomahawks and posted themselves in readiness to
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: deal their vengeance on the imaginary tormentor of their sick relative,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: while the women and children broke branches from the bushes
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: or seized fragments of the rock with a similar intention.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: At this favorable moment, the counterfeit conjurors disappeared. Hawkeye at
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the same time that he had presumed so far on
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the nature of the Indian superstitions, was not ignorant that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: they were rather tolerated than relied on by the wisest
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: of the chiefs. He well knew the value of time
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: in the present emergency. Whatever might be the extent of
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the self delusion of his enemies, and however it had
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: tended to assist his schemes, the slightest cause of suspicion,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: acting on the subtle nature of an Indian would be
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: likely to prove fatal. Taking the path therefore that was
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: most likely to avoid observation, he rather skirted than entered
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the village. The warriors were still to be seen in
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the distance by the fading light of the fires, stalking
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: from lodge to lodge, But the children had abandoned their
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: sports for their beds of skins, and the quiet of
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: night was already beginning to prevail over the turbulence and
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: excitement of so busy and important an evening. Alice revived
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: under the renovating influence of the open air, and as
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: her physical rather than her mental powers, had been the
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: subject of weakness, she stood in no need of any
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: explanation of that which had occurred. Now let me make
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: an effort to walk, she said, when they had entered
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the forest, blushing, though unseen that she had not been
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: sooner able to quit the arms of Duncan, I am
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: indeed restored. Nay, Alice, you are yet too weak. The
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: maiden struggled gently to release herself, and Heyward was compelled
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to part with his precious burden. The representative of the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: bear had certainly been an entire stranger to the delicious
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: emotion of the lover while his arms encircled his mistress,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: and he was perhaps a stranger also to the nature
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of that feeling of ingenuous shame that oppressed the trembling Alice.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: But when he found himself at a suitable distance from
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: the lodges, he made a halt and spoke on a
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: subject of which he was thoroughly the master. This path
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: will lead you to the brook, he said, follow its
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: northern bank until you come to a fall. Mount the
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: hill on your right, and you will see the fires
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: of the other people there. You must go and demand protection.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: If they are true Delawares, you will be safe. A
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: distant flight with that gentle one just now is impossible.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: The Hurons would follow up our trail and master our
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: scalps before we had got a dozen miles. Go and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Providence be with you, and you demanded Heyward, in surprise.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Surely we part not here. The Hurons hold the pride
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of the Delawares. The last of the high blood of
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the Mohicans is in their power. Return the scout. I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: go to see what can be done in favor. Had
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: they mastered your scalp, major, a knave should have fallen
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: for every herot held as I promised. But if the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: young Sagamore is to be led to the stake, the
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Indians shall see also how a man without a cross
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: can die. Not in the least offended with the decided
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: preference that the sturdy woodsman gave to one who might
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: in some degree be called the child of his adoption.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Duncan still continued to urge such reasons against so desperate
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: an effort as presented themselves He was aided by Alice,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: who mingled her entreaties with those of Heyward that he
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: would abandon a resolution that promised so much danger with
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: so little hope of success. Their eloquence and ingenuity were
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: expended in vain. The Scout heard them attentively but impatiently,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and finally closed the discussion by answering in a tone
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: that instantly silenced Alice, while it told Heyward how fruitless
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: any further remonstrances would be. I have heard he said
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: that there is a feeling in youth which binds man
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: to woman closer than the father is tied to the sun.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: It may be so, I have seldom been where women
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: of my color dwell, But such may be the gifts
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: of nature in the settlements. You have risked life and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: all that is dear to you to bring off this
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: gentle one. And I suppose that some such disposition is
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of it all. As for me, I
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: taught the lad the real character of a rifle, and
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: well has he paid me for it. I have foted
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: at his side in many a bloody scrimmage, and so
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: long as I could hear the crack of his piece
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: in one ear, and that of the Sagamore. In the
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: other I knew no enemy was on my back. Winters
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: in summer nights and days have we roved the wilderness
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: in company, eating of the same dish, one sleeping while
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the other watched. And afore it shall be said that
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Uncas was taken to the torment, and I at hand.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: There is but a single ruler of us all, whatever
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: may the color of the skin, and him I call
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: to witness that before the Mohican boy shall perish for
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the want of a friend good faith, shall depart the
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: ptarth and killed become as harmless as the tooting weapon
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: of the singer. Duncan released his hold on the arm
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: of the scout, who turned and steadily retraced his steps
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: toward the lodges. After pausing a moment to gaze at
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: his retiring form, the successful and yet sorrowful Heyward and
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Alice took their way together toward the distant village of
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: the Delawares illustration, Chapter twenty six. Bot let me play
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the Lion two midsummer nights, dreamed. Notwithstanding the high resolution
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: of Hawkeye, he fully comprehended all the difficulties and danger
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: he was about to incur in his return to the camp.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: His acute and practiced intellects were intently engaged in devising
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: means to counteract a watchfulness and suspicion on the part
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: of his enemies that he knew were in no degree
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: inferior to his own. Nothing but the color of his
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: skin had saved the lives of Magua and the conjurer,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: who would have been the first victim's sacrifice to his
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: own security, had not the scout believed such an act,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: however congenial it might be to the nature of an Indian,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: utterly unworthy of one who boasted a descent from men
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: that knew no cross of blood. Accordingly, he trusted to
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the wives and ligaments with which he had bound his captives,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and pursued his way directly toward the center of the lodges.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: As he approached the buildings, his steps become more deliberate,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: and his vigilant i suffered no sign, whether friendly or hostile,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: to escape him. A neglected hut was a little in
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: advance of the others, and appeared as if it had
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: been deserted when half completed, most probably on account of
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: failing in some of the more important requisites. Such as
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: wood or water. A faint light glimmered through its cracks, however,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and announced that, notwithstanding its imperfect structure, it was not
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: without a tenant. Thither then the Scout proceeded like a
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: prudent general who was about to feel the advanced positions
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: of his enemy before he hazarded the main attack. Throwing
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: himself into a suitable posture for the beast he represented,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Hawkeye crawled to a little opening, where he might command
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a view of the interior. It proved to be the
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: abiding place of David Gamut. Hither the faithful singing Master
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: had now brought himself together with all his sorrows, his apprehensions,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: and his meek dependence on the protection of Providence, at
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: the precise moment when his ungainly person came under the
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: observation of the scout, in a manner just mentioned the
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: woodsman himself, though in his assumed character, was the subject
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: of the solitary being's profound reflections. However, implicit the faith
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: of David was in the performance of ancient miracles. He
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: issued the belief of any direct supernatural agency in the
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: management of modern morality. In other words, while he had
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: implicit faith in the ability of balams as to speak.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: He was somewhat skeptical on the subject of a bear's singing,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: and yet he had been assured of the latter on
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: the testimony of his own exquisite organs. There was something
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: in his air and manner that betrayed to the scout
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: the utter confusion of the state of his mind. He
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: was seated on a pile of brush, a few twigs
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: from which occasionally fed his low fire, with his head
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: leaning on his arm in a posture of melancholy musing
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the costume of the votary of music. Had undergone no
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: other alteration from that so lately described, except that he
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: had covered his bald head with the triangular beaver, which
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: had not proved sufficiently alluring to excite the cupidity of
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: any of his captors. The ingenious Hawkeye, who recalled the
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: hasty manner in which the other had abandoned his post
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: at the bedside of the sick woman, was not without
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: his suspicions concerning the subject of so much solemn deliberation,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: first making the circuit of the hut and ascertaining that
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: it stood quite alone, and that the character of its
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: inmate was likely to protect it from visitors. He ventured
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: through its low door into the very presence of Gamut.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: The position of the latter brought the fire between them,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: and when Hawkeye had seated himself on end, mere minute elapsed,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: during which the two remained regarding each other without speaking.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: The suddenness and the nature of the surprise had nearly
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: proved too much, for we will not say the philosophy,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: but for the pitch and resolution of David. He fumbled
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: for his pitch pipe and arose with a confused intention
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: of attempting a musical exorcism. Dark and mysterious monster, he exclaimed,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: while with trembling hands he disposed of his auxiliary eyes
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: and sought his never failing resource in trouble, the gifted
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: version of the Psalms. I know not your nature nor intense,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: but if ought you meditate against the person and rights
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: of one of the humblest servants of the Temple, listen
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: to the inspired language of the youth of Israel and repent.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: The bear shook his shaggy sides, and then a well
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: known voice replied, put up the tooting, weepon and teach
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: your throat modesty. Five words of plain and comprehendible English
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: are worth just now an hour of squalling what art
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: thou demanded? David, utterly disqualified to pursue his original intention,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: and nearly gasping for breath. A man like yourself, and
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: one whose blood is as little tainted by the c
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: of a bear or an Indian as your own? Have
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: you so soon forgotten from whom you received the foolish
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: instrument you hold in your hand? Can these things be returned? David,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: breathing more freely as the truth began to dawn upon him.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I have found many marvels during my sojourn with the heathen,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: but surely nothing to excel this. Come, Come, returned Hawkeye,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: uncassing his honest countenance, the better to assure the wavering
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: confidence of his companion. You may see a skin which,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: if it be not as white as one of the
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: gentle ones, has no tinge of red to it that
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: the winds of the heaven and the sun have not bestowed.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Now let us to business. First, tell me of the
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: maiden and of the youth who so bravely sought her,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: interrupted David. I. They are happily freed from the tomahawks
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: of these varlets but can you put me on the
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: scent of Buncas. The young man is in bondage, and
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: much I fear his death is decreed. I greatly mourn
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: that one one so well disposed should die in his ignorance,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: and I have sought it goodly him. Can you lead
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: me to him? The task will not be difficult, returned David, hesitating,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: though I greatly fear your presence would rather increase than
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: mitigate his unhappy fortunes. No more words, but lead on,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: returned Hawkeye, concealing his face again and setting the example
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: in his own person by instantly quitting the lodge. As
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: they proceeded, the scout ascertained that his companion found access
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: to Uncas under privilege of his imaginary infirmity, aided by
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: the favor he had acquired with one of the guards, who,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: in consequence of speaking a little English, had been selected
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: by David as the subject of a religious conversion. How
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: far the Huron comprehended the intentions of his new friend
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: may well be doubted. But as exclusive attention is as
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: flattering to a savage as to a more civilized individual,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: it had produced the effect we have mentioned. It is
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: unnecessary to repeat the shrewd manner with which the scout
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: extracted these particulars from the civil David. Neither shall we
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: dwell in this place on the nature of the instruction
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: he delivered, when completely master of all the necessary facts,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: as the whole will be sufficiently explained to the reader
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: in the course of the narrative. The lodge in which
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Uncas was confined was in the very center of the village,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: and in a situation perhaps more difficult than any other
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: to approach or leave without observation. But it was not
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: the policy of Hawkeye to effect the least concealment. Presuming
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: on his disguise and his ability to sustain the character
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: he had assumed, he took the most plain and direct
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: route to the place. The hour, however, afforded him some
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: little of that protection which he appeared so much to despise.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: The boys were already buried in sleep, and all the
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: women and most of the warriors had retired to their
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: lodges for the night. For five of the latter only
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: lingered about the door of the prison of Uncas, wearied
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: but close observers of the manner of their captive. At
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: the sight of Gamut, accompanied by one oar the well
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: known masquerade of their most distinguished conjurer, they readily made
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: way for them. Both still they betrayed no intention to depart.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: On the other hand, they were evidently disposed to remain
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: bound to the place by an additional interest in the
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: mysterious mummeries that they, of course expected from such a visit.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: From the total inability of the scout to address the
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Hurons in their own language, he was compelled to trust
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: the conversation entirely to David. Notwithstanding the simplicity of the latter,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: he did ample justice to the instructions he had received,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: more than fulfilling the strongest hopes of his teacher. The
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Delawares are women, he exclaimed, addressing himself to the savage
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: who had a slight understanding of the language in which
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: he spoke. The Yengeese, My foolish countrymen have told them
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: to take up the tomahawk and strike their fathers in
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the Canadas, and they have forgotten their sex. Does my
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: brother wish to hear lecerf Agil ask for his petticoats
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: and see him weep before the Hurons at the stake.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: The exclamation Hugh delivered in a strong tone of assent
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: announced the gratification the savage would receive in witnessing such
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: an exhibition of weakness in an enemy so long hated
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: and so much feared. Then let him step aside, and
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: the cunning man will blow upon the dog. Tell it
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: to my brothers. The Huron explained the meaning of David
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: to his fellows, who in their turn listened to the
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: project with that sort of satisfaction that their untamed spirits
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: might be expected to find in such a refinement in cruelty.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: They drew back a little from the entrance and motion
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: to the supposed conjurer to enter. But the bear, instead
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: of obeying, maintained the seat it had taken and growled.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: The cunning man is afraid that his breath will blow
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: upon his brothers and take away their courage too, continued David,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: improving the hint he received. They must stand further off.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: The Hurons, who would have deemed such a misfortune the
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: heaviest calamity that could befall them, fell back in a body,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: taking a position where they were out of earshot, though
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: at the same time they could command a view of
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: the entrance to the lodge. Then, as if satisfied of
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: their safety, the scout left his position and slowly entered
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: the place. It was silent and gloomy, being tenanted solely
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: by the captive, and lighted by the dying embers of
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: a fire which had been used for the purpose of cookery.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Uncas occupied a distant corner in a reclining attitude, being
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: rigidly bound both hands and feet by strong and painful wives.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: When the frightful object first presented itself to the young Mohican,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: he did not deign to bestow a single glance on
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: the animal. The scout, who had left David at the
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: door to ascertain they were not observed, thought it prudent
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: to preserve his disguise until assured of their privacy. Instead
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: of speaking, therefore, he exerted himself to enact one of
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: the antics of the animal he represented. The young Mohican,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: who at first believed his enemies had sent in a
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: real beast to torment him and try his nerves. Detected
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: in those performances that to Heyward had appeared so accurate
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: certain blemishes that at once betrayed the counterfeit. Had Hawkeye
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: been aware of the low estimation in which the skillful
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Uncas held his representations, he would probably have prolonged the
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: entertainment a little in pique, But the scornful expression of
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: the young man's I admitted of so many constructions that
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: the worthy scout was spared the mortification of such a discovery.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: As soon therefore, as David gave the preconcerted signal, a low,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: hissing sound was heard in the lodge in place of
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: the fierce growlings of the bear illustration. His keen eye
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: rested on the shaggy monster. Uncas had cast his body
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: back against the wall of the hut and closed his eyes,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: as if willing to exclude so contemptible and disagreeable an
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: object from his sight. But the moment the noise of
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the serpent was heard, he arose and cast his looks
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: on each side of him, bending his head low and
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: turning it inquiringly in every direction, until his keen eye
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: rested on the shaggy man monster, where it remained riveted,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: as though fixed by the power of a charm. Again,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: the same sounds were repeated, evidently proceeding from the mouth
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: of the beast. Once more, the eyes of the youth
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: roamed over the interior of the lodge, and returning to
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: the former resting place, he uttered in a deep suppressed voice.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Hawkeye cut his bands, said Hawkeye to David, who just
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: then approached them. The singer did as he was ordered,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: and Uncas found his limbs released. At the same moment,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: the dried skin of the animal rattled, and presently the
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: scout arose to his feet. In proper person, the Mohican
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: appeared to comprehend the nature of the attempt his friend
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: had made, intuitively, neither tongue nor feature, betraying another symptom
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: of surprise. When Hawkeye had cast his shaggy vestment, which
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: was done by simply loosing certain thongs of skin, he
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: drew a long, glittering knife and put it in the
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: hands of Uncas. The Red Hurons are without, he said,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: let us be ready. At the same time he laid
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: his finger significantly on another similar weapon, both being the
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: fruits of his prowess among their enemies. During the evening,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: we will go, said Uncas, whither to the tortoises. They
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: are the children of my grandfathers. I lad, said the
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Scout in English, a language he was apt to use
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: when a little abstracted in mind. The same blood runs
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: in your veins, I believe, But time and distance has
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: a little changed its color. What shall we do with
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: the mingoes at the door? They count six, and this
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: singer is as good as nothing. The Hurons are boasters,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: said Uncas scornfully. Their totem is a moose, and they
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: run like snails. The delawares are children of the tortoise,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: and they outstrip the deer. I lad, there is truth
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: in what you say, and I doubt not on a
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: rush you would pass the whole nation, and in a
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: straight race of two miles would be in and get
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: your breath again before a knave of them all was
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: within hearing of the other village. But the gift of
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: a white man lies more in his arms than in
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: his legs. As for myself, I can brain a huron
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: as well as a better man, But when it comes
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: to erase, the knaves would prove too much for me. Uncas,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: who had already approached the door in readiness to lead
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: the way, now recoiled and placed himself once more in
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the lodge. But Hawkeye, who was too
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: much occupied with his own thoughts to note the movement, continued,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: speaking more to himself than to his companion. After all,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: he said, it is unreasonable to keep one man in
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: bondage to the gifts of another, So Uncas, you had
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: better take the lead, while I will put on the
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: skin again and trust to cutting for want of speed.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: The young Mohican made no reply, but quietly folded his
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: arms and leaned his body against one of the upright
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: posts that supported the wall of the hut. Well, said
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: the scout, looking up at him, Why do you tarry?
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: There will be time enough for me, as the knaves
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: will give chase to you at first. Uncas will stay,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: was the calm reply. For what to fight with his
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: father's brother and die with the friend of the Delawares,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: I lad, returned Hawkeye, squeezing the hand of Uncas between
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: his own iron fingers. Twould have been more like a
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Mingo than a Mohican had you left me. But I
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: thought I would make the offer, seeing that youth commonly
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: loves life. Well, what can't be done by main courage
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: in war must be done by circumvention. Put on the skin.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: I doubt not you can play the bear nearly as
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: well as myself. Whatever might have been the private opinion
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: of uncas of their respective abilities. In this particular, his
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: grave countenance manifested no opinion of his superiority. He silently
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: and expeditiously encased himself in the covering of the beast,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: and then awaited such other movements as his more aged
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: companions saw fit to dictate. Now, friend, said Hawkeye, addressing David,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: an exchange of garments will be a great convenience to you,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: inasmuch as you are but little accustomed to the makeshifts
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: of the wilderness. Here take my hunting shirt and cap,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: and give me your blanket and hat. You must trust
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: me with the book and spectacles, as well as the
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: tutor too. If we ever meet again in better times,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: you shall have all back again, with many thanks into
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: the bargain. David parted with the several articles named with
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: a readiness that would have done great credit to his liberality,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: had he not certainly profited in many particulars by the exchange.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Hawkeye was not long in assuming his borrowed garments, and
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: when his restless eyes were hid behind the glasses and
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: his head was surmounted by the triangular beaver, as their
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: statures were not dissimilar, he might readily have passed for
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: the singer by starlight. As soon as these dispositions were made,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: the scout turned to David and gave him his parting instructions.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Are you much given to cowardice, he blunt asked, by
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: way of obtaining a suitable understanding of the whole case,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: before he ventured a prescription. My pursuits are peaceful, and
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: my temper I humbly trust is greatly given to mercy
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: and love, returned David, a little nettled that so direct
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: an attack on his manhood. But there are none who
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: can say that I have ever forgotten my faith in
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: the Lord, even in the greatest straits. Your chiefest danger
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: will be at the moment when the savages find out
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: that they have been deceived. If you are not then
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: knocked on the head, your being a non compusser will
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: protect you, and you will then have a good reason
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: to expect to die in your bed. If you stay,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: it must be to sit down here in the shadow
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: and take the part of uncas until such times as
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: the cunning of the Indians discover the cheat. When, as
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: I have already said, your times of trial will come.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: So choose for yourself to make a rush or tarry here.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Even so, said David, firmly, I will abide in the
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: place of the delaware. Bravely and generously has he bowed
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: in my behalf, And this and more will I dare
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: in his service. You have spoken as a man, and
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: like one who under wiser schooling would have been brought
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: to better things. Hold your head down and draw in
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: your legs. Their formation might tell the truth too early.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Keep silent as long as may be, and it would
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: be wise, when you do speak, to break out suddenly
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: in one of your shoutings, which will serve to remind
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the Indians that you are not altogether as responsible as
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: men should be. If, however, they take your scalp, as
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: I trust and believe, they will not depend on it unkiss,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: and I will not forget the deed, but revenge it
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: as becomes true warriors and trusty friends, hold, said David,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: perceiving that with this assurance they were about to leave him.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: I am an unworthy and humble follower of one who
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: taught not the damnable principle of revenge. Should I fall, therefore,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: seek no victims to my manies, but rather forgive my destroyers,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: And if you remember them, at all, let it be
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: in prin for the enlightening of their minds and for
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: their eternal welfare. The scout hesitated and appeared to muse.
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  Speaker 1: There is a principle in that, he said, different from
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: the law of the woods, and yet it is fair
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: and noble to reflect upon. Then, heaving a heavy sigh,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: probably among the last he ever drew, in pining for
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: a condition he had so long abandoned, he added, it
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: is what I would wish to practice myself as one
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: without a cross of blood. Though it is not always
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: easy to deal with an Indian as you would with
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: a fellow Christian. God bless you, friend. I do believe
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: your sin is not greatly wrong when the matter is
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: duly considered and keeping eternity before the eyes, though much
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: depends on the natural gifts and the force of temptation.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: So saying, the scout returned and shook David cordially by
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: the hand, after which act of friendship he immediately left
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: the lodge. Attended by the new representative of the beast,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: the instant Hawkeye found himself under the observation of the Hurons.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: He drew up his tall form in the rigid manner
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: of David threw out his arm in the act of
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: keeping time and commenced what he intended for an imitation
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: of his psalmity. Happily, for the success of this delicate
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: adventure he had to deal with ears, but little practiced
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: in the concord of sweet sounds, or the miserable effort
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: would infallibly have been detected. It was necessary to pass
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: within a dangerous proximity of the dark group of the savages,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: and the voice of the scout grew louder as they
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: drew nigher, when at the nearest point, the Huron who
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: spoke the English, thrust out an arm and stopped the
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: supposed singing master. The delaware dog, he said, leaning forward
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: and peering through the dim light to catch the expression
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: of the other's features. Is he afraid? Will the Hurons
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: hear his groans? A growl so exceedingly fierce and natural
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: proceeded from the beast that the young Indian released his
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: hold and started aside, as if to assure himself that
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: it was not a veritable bear and no counterfeit that
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: was rolling before him. Hawkeye, who feared his voice would
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: betray him to his subtle enemies, gladly profited by the
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: interruption to break out anew in such a burst of
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: musical expression, as would probably in a more refined state
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: of society, have been termed but grand crash. Among his
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: actual auditors, however, it merely gave him an additional claim
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: to that respect which they never withhold from such as
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: are believed to be the subjects of mental alienation. The
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: little knot of Indians drew back in a body and suffered,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: as they thought the Conjurer and his inspired assistant to proceed.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: It required no common exercise of fortitude and uncass and
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: the scout to continue the dignified and deliberate pace they
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: had assumed in passing the lodge, especially as they immediately
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: perceived that curiosity had so far mastered fear as to
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: induce the watchers to approach the hut in order to
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: witness the effect of the incantations. The least injudicious or
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: impatient movement on the part of David might betray them,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: and time was absolutely necessary to insure the safety of
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: the scout. The loud noise the latter conceived it politic
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: to continue, drew many curious gazers to the doors of
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: the different huts as they passed, and once or twice
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: a dark looking warrior stepped across their path. Led to
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: the act by superstition and watchfulness, they were not, however, interrupted,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: the darkness of the hour and the boldness of the
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: attempt proving their principal friends. The adventurers had got clear
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: of the village and were now swiftly approaching the shelter
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: of the woods, when a loud and long cry arose
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: from the lodge where Uncas had been confined. The Mohican
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: started on his feet and shook his shaggy covering, as
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: though the animal he counterfeited was about to make some
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: desperate effort. Hold, said the scout, grasping his friend by
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: the shoulder. Let them yell again. Twas nothing but wonderment.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: He had no occasion to delay, for at the next
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: instant a burst of cries filled the outer air and
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: ran along the whole extent of the village. Uncas cast
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: his skin and stepped forth in his own beautiful proportions.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Hawkeye apped him lightly on the shoulder and glided ahead.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Now let the devils strike our scent, said the scout,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: tearing two rifles with all their attendant accouterments from beneath
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: a bush and flourishing kildeer as he handed Uncas his weapon, too,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: at least will find it to their deaths. Then throwing
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: their pieces to a low trail, like sportsmen in readiness
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: for their game, they dashed forward and were soon buried
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: in the somber darkness of the forest. Chapter twenty seven.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Aunt I shall remember when Tsar says, do this, it
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: is performed Julius Caesar. The impatience of the savages who
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: lingered about the prison of Uncas, as has been seen,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath. They stole
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: cautiously and with beating hearts, to a crevice through which
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: the faint light of the fire was glimmering. For several minutes,
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: they mistook the form of David for that of the prisoner,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: but the very accident which Hawkeye had foreseen occurred. Tired
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: of keeping the extremities of his long person so near together,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: the singer gradually suffered the lower limbs to extend themselves,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: until one of his misshapen feet actually came in contact
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: with and shoved aside the embers of the fire. At first,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: the Hurons believed the Delaware had been thus deformed by witchcraft.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: But when David, unconscious of being observed, turned his head
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: and exposed his simple, mild countenance in place of the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: haughty lineaments of their prisoner, it would have exceeded the
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: credulity of even a native to have doubted any longer.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: They rushed together into the lodge, and, laying their hands
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: with but little ceremony on their captive, immediately detected the imposition.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Then arose the cry first heard by the fugitives. It
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: was succeeded by the most frantic and angry demonstrations of vengeance. David, however,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: firm in his determination to cover the retreat of his friends,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: was compelled to believe that his own final hour had come.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Deprived of his book and his pipe, he was fain
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: to trust to a memory that rarely failed him on
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: such subjects, and breaking forth in a loud and impassioned strain,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: he endeavored to smooth his passage into the other world
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: by singing the opening verse of a funeral anthem. The
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Indians were seasonably reminded of his infirmity, and rushing into
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: the open air, they aroused the village in the manner
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: described a native warrior fights as he sleeps, without the
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: protection of anything defensive. The sounds of the alarm were
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: therefore hardly uttered before two hundred men were afoot and
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: ready for the battle or the chase, as either might
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: be required. The escape was soon known, and the whole
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: tribe crowded in a body around the council lodge, impatiently
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: awaiting the instruction of their chiefs. In such a sudden
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: demand on their wisdom, the presence of the cunning Magua
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: could scarcely fail of being needed. His name was mentioned,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: and all looked round in wonder that he did not appear.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Messengers were then despatched to his lodge, requiring his presence.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, some of the swiftest and most discreet
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: of the young men were ordered to make the circuit
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: of the clearing under cover of the woods, in order
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: to ascertain that their suspected neighbors, the Delawares, designed no mischief.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: Women and children ran to and fro, and in short
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: the whole encampment exhibited another scene of wild and savage confusion. Gradually, however,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: these symptoms of disorder diminished, and in a few minutes,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: the oldest and most distinguished chiefs were assembled in the
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: lodge in grave consultation. The clamor of many voices soon
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: announced that a party approached who might be expected to
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: communicate some intelligence that would explain the mystery of the novel. Surprise,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: the crowd without gave way, and several warriors entered the place,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: bringing with them the hapless conjurer, who had been left
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: so long by the scout in duress. Notwithstanding this man
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: was held in very unequal estimation among the hurons, some
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: believing implicitly in his power, and others deeming him an
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: impost he was now listened to buy all with the
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: deepest attention. When his brief story was ended, the father
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: of the sick woman stepped forth and, in a few
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: pithy expression, related in his turn what he knew. These
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: two narratives gave a proper direction to the subsequent inquiries,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: which were now made with the characteristic cunning of savages.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Instead of rushing in a confused and disorderly throng to
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: the cavern, ten of the wisest and firmest among the
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: chiefs were selected to prosecute the investigation, as no time
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: was to be lost. The instant the choice was made,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: the individuals appointed rose in a body and left the
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: place without speaking. On reaching the entrance, the younger men
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: in advance made way for their seniors, and the whole
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: proceeded along the low, dark gallery with the firmness of
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: warriors ready to devote themselves to the public good, though
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: at the same time secretly doubting the nature of the
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: power with which they were about to contend. The outer
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: apartment of the cavern was silent and gloomy. The woman
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: lay in her usual place and posture, though there were
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: those present who affirmed they had seen her born to
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: the woods by the supposed medicine of the white men.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Such a direct and palpable contradiction of the tale related
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: by the father caused all eyes to be turned on him.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Chafed by the silent imputation and inwardly troubled by so
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: unaccountable a circumstance, the chief advanced to the side of
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: the bed, and, stooping, cast an incredulous look at the features,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: as if distrusting their reality. His daughter was dead. The
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: unerring feeling of nature for a moment prevailed, and the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: old warrior hid his eyes in sorrow. Then, recovering his
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: self possession, he faced his companions, and, pointing toward the corpse,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: he said, in the language of his people, the wife
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: of my young man has left us. The Great Spirit
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: is angry with his children. The mournful intelligence was received
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: in solemn silence. After a short pause, one of the
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: elder Indians was about to speak, when a dark looking
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: object was seen rolling out of an adjoining apartment into
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: the very center of the room where they stood. Ignorant
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: of the nature of the beings they had to deal with,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: the whole party drew back a little, and, rising on end,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: exhibited the distorted, but still fierce and sullen features of Magua.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: The discovery was succeeded by a general exclamation of amazement.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: As soon, however, as the true situation of the chief
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: was understood, several knives appeared, and his limbs and tongue
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: were quickly released. The Huron arose and shook himself like
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: a lion, quitting his lair. Not a word escaped him,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: though his hand played convulsively with the handle of his knife,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: while his lowering eyes scanned the whole party as if
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: they sought an object. Suited to the first burst of
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: his vengeance. It was happy for Uncas and the Scout
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: and even David that they were all beyond the reach
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: of his arm at such a moment, for assuredly no
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: refinement in cruelty would then have deferred their deaths. In
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: opposition to the promptings of the fierce temper that nearly
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: choked him. Meeting everywhere faces that he knew as friends,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: the savage grated his teeth together like rasps of iron,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: and swallowed his passion for want of a victim on
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: whom to vent it. This exhibition of anger was noted
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: by all present, and from an apprehension of exasperating a
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: temper that was already chafed nearly to madness, several minutes
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: were suffered to pass before another word was uttered. When, however,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: suitable time had elapsed, the oldest of the party spoke,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: My friend has found an enemy, he said, is he
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: nigh that the Hurons might take revenge? Let the Delaware die,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: exclaimed Magua in a voice of thunder. Another longer and
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: expressive silence was observed, and was broken, as before, with
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: due precaution by the same individual. The Mohican is swift
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: of foot and leaps far, he said, But my young
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: men are on his trail. Is he gone? Demanded Magua,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: in tones so deep and gederal that they seemed to
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: proceed from his inmost chest. An evil spirit has been
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: among us, and the delaware has blinded our eyes. An
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: evil spirit, repeated the other mockingly. Tis the spirit that
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: has taken the lives of so many Hurons, the spirit
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: that slew my young men at the tumbling river, that
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: took their scalps at the healing spring, and who has
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: now bound the arms of low Renard Suttle. Of whom
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: does my friend speak of? The dog who carries the
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: heart and cunning of a Huron under a pale skin,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: lo long Cariban. The pronunciation of so terrible a name
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: produced the usual effect among his auditors. But when time
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: was given for reflection and the warriors remembered that their
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: formidable and daring enemy had even been in the bosom
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: of their encampment, working injury, fearful rage took the place
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: of wonder, and all those fierce passions with which the
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Bosom of Magua had just been struggling were suddenly transferred
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: to his companions. Some among them gnashed their t in anger.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Others vented their feelings and yells, and some again beat
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: the air as frantically, as if the object of their
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: resentment were suffering under their blows. But this sudden outbreaking
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: of temper as quickly subsided in the still and sullen
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: restraint they most affected in their moments of inaction. Magua,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: who had in his turn found leisure for reflection, now
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: changed his manner and assumed the air of one who
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: knew how to think and act with a dignity worthy
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: of so grave a subject. Let us go to my people,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: he said, they wait for us. His companions consented in silence,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: and the whole of the savage party left the cavern
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: and returned to the council lodge. When they were seated,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: all eyes turned on Magua, who understood from such an
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: indication that by common consent they had devolved the duty
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: of relating what had passed on him. He arose and
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: told his tale without duplicity or reservation. The whole deception
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: practiced by both Duncan and Hawkeye was of course laid naked,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: and no room was found even for the most superstitious
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: of the tribe. Any longer to affix a doubt on
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: the character of the occurrences, it was but too apparent
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: that they had been insultingly, shamefully, disgracefully deceived. When he
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: had ended and resumed his seat, the collected tribe for
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: his auditors, in substance, included all the fighting men of
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: the party, sat regarding each other like men, astonished equally
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: at the audacity and the success of their enemies. The
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: next consideration, however, was the means and opportunities for revenge.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Additional pursuers were sent on the trail of the fugitives,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: and then the chiefs applied themselves in earnest to the
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: business of consultation. Many different expedients were proposed by the
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: elder warriors in succession to all of which Magua was
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: a silent and respectful listener. That subtle savage had recovered
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: his artifice and self command, and now proceeded toward his
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: object with his customary caution and skill. It cause only
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: when each one disposed to speak had uttered his sentiments,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: that he prepared to advance his own opinions. They were
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: given with additional weight from the circumstance that some of
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: the runners had already returned and reported that their enemies
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: had been traced so far as to leave no doubt
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: of their having sought safety in the neighboring camp of
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: their suspected allies. The Delawares. With the advantage of possessing
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: this important intelligence, The chief warily laid his plans before
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: his fellows, and as might have been anticipated from his
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: eloquence and cunning, they were adopted without a dissenting voice.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: They were briefly as follows, both in opinions and in motives.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: It has been already stated that, in obedience to a
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: policy rarely departed from, the sisters were separated so soon
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: as they reached the Huron village. Magua had early discovered
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: that in retaining the person of Alice, he possessed the
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: most effectual check on Korra when they parted. Therefore, he
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: kept the former within reach of his hand, consigning the
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: one he most value to the keeping of their allies.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: The arrangement was understood to be merely temporary, and was
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: made as much with a view to flatter his neighbors
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: as in obedience to the invariable rule of Indian policy.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: While goaded incessantly by these revengeful impulses, that in a
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: savage seldom slumber, the chief was still attentive to his
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: more permanent personal interests. The follies and disloyalty committed in
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: his youth were to be expiated by a long and
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: painful penance. Ere he could be restored to the full
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: enjoyment of the confidence of his ancient people. And without
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: confidence there could be no authority in an Indian tribe.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: In this delicate and arduous situation, the crafty native had
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: neglected no means of increasing his influence, and one of
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: the happiest of his expedients had been the success with
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: which he had cultivated the favor of their powerful and
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: dangerous neighbors. The result of his experiment had answered all
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: the expectations of his policy, for the Hurons were in
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: no degree exempt from that governing principle of nature which
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: induces man to value his gifts precisely in the degree
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: that they are appreciated by others. But while he was
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: making this ostensible sacrifice to general considerations, Magua never lost
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: sight of his individual motives. The latter had been frustrated
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: by the unlooked for events which had placed all his
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: prisoners beyond his control, and he now found himself reduced
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: to the necessity of suing for favors to those whom
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: it had so lately been his policy to oblige. Several
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: of the chiefs had proposed deep in treacherous schemes to
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: surprise the delawares, and, by gaining possession of their camp,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: to recover their prisoners by the same blow. For all
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: agreed that their honor, their interests, and the peace and
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: happiness of their dead countrymen imperiously required them speedily to
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: immolate some victims to their revenge. But plans so dangerous
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: to attempt, and of such doubtful issue, Magua found little
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: difficulty in defeating. He exposed their risk and fallacy with
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  Speaker 1: his usual skill, and it was only after he had
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: removed every impediment in the shape of opposing advice, that
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: he ventured to propose his own primes. He commenced by
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: flattering the self love of his auditors, a never failing
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: method of commanding attention. When he had enumerated the many
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: different occasions on which the Hurons had exhibited their courage
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: and prowess in the punishment of insults, he digressed in
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: a high encomium on the virtue of wisdom. He painted
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: the quality as forming the great point of difference between
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: the beaver and other brutes, between the brutes and men,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: and finally between the Hurons in particular and the rest
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: of the human race. After he had sufficiently extolled the
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: property of discretion, he undertook to exhibit in what manner
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: its use was applicable to the present situation of their tribe.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: On the one hand, he said, was their great pale father,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: the governor of the Canadas, who had looked upon his
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: children with a hard eye since their tomahawks had been
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: so read. On the other, a people as numerous as themselves,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: who spoke a different language, possessed different interests, and loved
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: them not, and who would be glad of any pretense
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: to bring them in discrest with the great White Chief.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Then he spoke of their necessities, of the gifts they
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: had a right to expect for their past services, of
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: their distance from their proper hunting grounds and native villages,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: and of the necessity of consulting prudence more and inclination
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: less in so critical circumstances. When he perceived that while
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: the old men applauded his moderation. Many of the fiercest
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: and most distinguished of the warriors listened to these politic
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: plans with lowering looks. He cunningly led them back to
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: the subject which they most loved. He spoke openly of
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: the fruits of their wisdom, which he boldly pronounced would
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: be a complete and final triumph over their enemies. He
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: even darkly hinted that their success might be extended, with
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: proper caution, in such a manner as to include the
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: destruction of all whom they had reason to hate. In short,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: he so blended the warlike with the artful, the obvious
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: with the obscure, as to flatter the propensities of both parties,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: and to leave to each subject of hope, while neither
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: could say it clearly compared his intentions. The orator or
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: the politician who can produce such a state of things
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: is commonly popular with his contemporaries. However he may be
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: treated by posterity. All perceived that more was meant than
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: was uttered, and each one believed that the hidden meaning
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: was precisely such as his own faculties enabled him to understand,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: or his own wishes led him to anticipate. In this
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: happy state of things, it is not surprising that the
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: management of Magua prevailed. The tribe consented to act with deliberation,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: and with one voice, they committed the direction of the
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: whole affair to the government of the chief, who had
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: suggested such wise and intelligible expedients. Magua had now attained
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: one great object of all his cunning and enterprise. The
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: ground he had lost in the favor of his people
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: was completely regained, and he found himself even placed at
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: the head of affairs. He was, in truth their ruler,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: and so long as he could maintain his popularity, no
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: monarch could be more despotic, especially while the tribe continued
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: in a hostile country. Throwing off therefore the appearance of consultation,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: he assumed the grave air of authority necessary to support
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: the dignity of his office. Runners were despatched for intelligence
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: in different directions. Spies were ordered to approach and feel
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: the encampment of the Delawares. The warriors were dismissed to
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: their lodges with an intimation that their services would soon
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: be needed, and the women and children were ordered to
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: retire with a warning that it was their province to
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: be silent. When these several arrangements were made, Magua passed
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: through the village, stopping here and there to pay a
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: visit where he thought his presence might be flattering to
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: the individual. He confirmed his friends in their confidence, fixed
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: the wavering, and gratified all. Then he sought his own lodge.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: The wife the Huron chief had abandoned when he was
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: chased from among his people was dead. Children. He had none,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: and he now occupied a hut without companion of any sort.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: It was, in fact the dilapidated and solitary structure in
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: which David had been discovered, and whom he had tolerated
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: in his presence on those few occasions when they met
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: with the contemptuous indifference of a haughty superiority. Hither Then,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: Magua retired when his labors of policy were ended, while
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: others slept. However, he neither knew or sought repose. Had
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: there been one sufficiently curious to have watched the movements
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: of the newly elected chief, he would have seen him
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: seated in a corner of his lodge, musing on the
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: subject of his future plans. From the hour of his
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: retirement to the time he had appointed for the warriors
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: to assemble again. Occasionally, the air breathed through the crevices
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: of the hut, and the low flame that fluttered about
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: the embers of the fire through their wavering light on
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: the person of the sullen recluse. At such moments, it
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: would not have been difficult to have fancied the dusky savage,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: the prince of darkness, brooding on his own, fancied wrongs
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: and plotting evil long before the day dawned. However, warrior
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: after warrior entered the solitary hut of Magua, until they
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: had collected to the number of twenty. Each bore his
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: rifle and all the other accouterments of war. Though the
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: paint was uniformly peaceful, the entrance of these fierce looking
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: beings was unnoticed, some seating themselves in the shadows of
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: the place, and others standing like motionless statues, until the
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: whole of the designated band was collected. Then Magua arose
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: and gave the signal to proceed, marching himself in advance.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: They followed their leader singly, and in that well known
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: order which has obtained the distinguishing appellation of Indian file.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: Unlike other men engaged in the spirits during business of war.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: They stole from their camp unostentatiously and unobserved, resembling a
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: band of gliding specters more than warriors, seeking the bubble
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: reputation by deeds of desperate daring. Instead of taking the
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: path which led directly toward the camp of the Delawares,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: Magua led his party for some distance down the windings
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: of the stream and along the little artificial lake of
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: the beavers. The day began to dawn as they entered
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: the clearing which had been formed by those sagacious and
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: industrious animals. Though Magua, who had resumed his ancient garb,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: bore the outline of a fox on the dressed skin
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: which formed his robe, there was one chief of his
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: party who carried the beaver as his peculiar symbol or totem.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: There would have been a species of profanity in the
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: omission had this man passed so powerful a community of
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: his fancied kindred without bestowing some evidence of his regard. Accordingly,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: he paused and spoke in words as kind and friendly
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: as if he were addressing more intelligent beings. He called
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: the animals his cousins and reminded them that his protecting
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: influence was the reason they remained unharmed, while many avaricious
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: traders were prompting the Indians to take their lives. He
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: promised a continuance of his favors and admonished them to
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: be grateful, after which he spoke of the expedition in
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: which he was himself engaged, and intimated, though with sufficient
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: delicacy and circumlocution, the expediency of bestowing on their relative
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: a portion of that wisdom for which they were so
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: renowned one one. These harangues of the beasts were frequent
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: among the Indians. They often addressed their victims in this way,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: reproaching them for cowardice or commending their resolution, as they
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: may happen to exhibit fortitude or the reverse in suffering.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: During the utterance of this extraordinary address, the companions of
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: the speaker were as grave and as attentive to his language,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: as though they were all equally impressed with its propriety.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: Once or twice black objects were seen rising to the
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: surface of the water, and the Huron expressed pleasure, conceiving
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: that his words were not bestowed in vain. Just as
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: he ended his address the head of a large beaver
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: was thrust from the door of a lodge whose earthen
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: walls had been much injured, and which the party had believed,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: from its situation to be uninhabited. Such an extraordinary sign
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: of confidence was received by the orator as a highly
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: favorable omen and the thus, though the animal retreated a
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: little precipitately, he was lavish of his thanks and commendations.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: When Magua thought sufficient time had been lost in gratifying
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: the family affection of the warrior, he again made the
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: signal to proceed. As the Indians moved away in a body,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: and with a step that would have been inaudible to
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: the ears of any common man, the same venerable looking
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: beaver once more ventured his head from its cover. Had
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: any of the Hurons turned to look behind them, they
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: would have seen the animal watching their movements with an
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: interest and sagacity that might easily have been mistaken for reason. Indeed,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: so very distinct and intelligible were the devices of the
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: quadruped that even the most experienced observer would have been
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: at a loss to account for its actions until the
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: moment when the party entered the forest, When the whole
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: would have been explained by seeing the entire animal issue
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: from the lodge, uncassing by the act the grave features
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: of Chingachgook from his Mask of Fur, Chapter twenty eight, brief,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: I pray for you, for you see tis a busy
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: time with me much ado about nothing. The tribe, or
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: rather half tribe of Delawares, which has been so often mentioned,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: and whose present place of encampment was so nigh the
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: temporary village of the Hurons, could assemble about an equal
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: number of warriors with the latter people. Like their neighbors,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: they had followed Montcalm into the territories of the English Crown,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: and were making heavy and serious inroads on the hunting
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: grounds of the Mohawks, though they had seen fit, with
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: the mysterious reserves so common among the natives, to withhold
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: their assistance at the moment when it was most required.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: The French had accounted for this unexpected defection on the
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: part of their ally in various ways. It was the
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: prevalent opinion, however, that they had been influenced by veneration
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: for the ancient treaty that had once made them dependent
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: on the Six Nations for military protection, and now rendered
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: them reluctant to encounter their former masters. As for the
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: tribe itself, it had been content to announce to Montcalm,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: through his emissaries with Indian in brevity, that their hatchets
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: were dull and time was necessary to sharpen them. The
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: politic captain of the Canadas had deemed it wiser to
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: submit to entertain a passive friend, than by any acts
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: of ill judged severity to convert him into an open enemy.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: On that morning, when Magua led his silent party from
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: the settlement of the Beavers into the forests, in the
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: manner described the sun rose upon the Delaware encampment as
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: if it had suddenly burst upon a busy people actively
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: employed in all the customary avocations of high noon. The
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: women ran from lodge to lodge, some engaged in preparing
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: their morning's meal, a few earnestly bent on seeking the
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: comforts necessary to their habits, but more pausing to exchange
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: hasty and whispered sentences with their friends. The warriors were
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: lounging in groups, musing more than they conversed, and when
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: a few words were uttered, speaking like men who deeply
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: weighed their opinions. The instruments of the chase were to
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: be seen in abundance among the lodges, but none departed
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: here and there. A warrior was excit xamining his arms
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: with an attention that is rarely bestowed on the implements
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: when no other enemy than the beasts of the forest
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: is expected to be encountered, And occasionally the eyes of
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: a whole group were turned simultaneously toward a large and
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: silent lodge in the center of the village, as if
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: it contained the subject of their common thoughts. During the
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: existence of this scene, a man suddenly appeared at the
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: furthest extremity of a platform of rock which formed the
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: level of the village. He was without arms, and his
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: paint tended rather to soften than increase the natural sternness
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: of his austere countenance. When in full view of the delawares,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: he stopped and made a gesture of amity by throwing
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: his arm upward toward heaven, and then letting it fall
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: impressively on his breast. The inhabitants of the village answered
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: his salute by a low murmur of welcome, and encouraged
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: him to advance by similar indications of friendship. Fortified by
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: these assurances, the dark figure left the brow of the
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: natural rocky terrace, where it had stood a moment, drawn
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: in a strong outline against the blushing morning sky, and
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: moved with dignity into the very center of the huts.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: As he approached, nothing was audible but the rattling of
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: the light silver ornaments that loaded his arms and neck,
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: and the tinkling of the little bells that fringed his
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: deerskin moccasins. He made as he advanced, many courteous signs
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: of greeting to the men he passed, neglecting to notice
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: the women, however, like one who deemed their favor in
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: the present enterprise of no importance. When he had reached
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: the group in which it was evident, by the haughtiness
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: of their common mien, that the principal chiefs were collected,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: the stranger paused, and then the Delawares saw that the
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: active and erect form that stood before them was that
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: of the well known Huron chief l Renard Subtle. His
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: reception was grave, silent, and wary. The warriors in front
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: stepped aside, opening the way to their most approved order.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: By the action one who spoke all those languages that
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: were cultivated among the northern Aborigines. The wise Huron is welcome,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: said the Delaware, in the language of the Maquas. He
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: is come to eat his succotash kama one with his
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: brothers of the lakes, one, a dish composed of cracked
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: corn and beans. It is much used also by the whites.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: By corn is meant maize. He is come, repeated Magua,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: bending his head with the dignity of an eastern prince.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: The chief extended his arm, and taking the other by
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: the wrist, they once more exchanged friendly salutations. Then the
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: Delaware invited his guest to enter his own lodge and
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: share his morning meal. The invitation was accepted, and the
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: two warriors, attended by three or four of the old men,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: walked calmly away, leaving the rest of the tribe devoured
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: by a desire to understand the reasons of so unusual
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: a visit, and yet not betraying the least impatience by
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: sign or word during the short and frugal repast that followed.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: The conversation was extremely circumspect and related entirely to the
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: events of the hunt in which Magua had so lately
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: been engaged. It would have been impossible for the most
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: finished breeding to wear more of the appearance of considering
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: the visit as a thing of course than did his hosts. Notwithstanding,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: every individual present was perfectly aware that it must be
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: connected with some secret object, and that probably of importance
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: to themselves. When the appetites of the whole were appeased,
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: the squaws removed the trenchers and gourds, and the two
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: parties began to prepare themselves for a subtle trial of
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: their wits. Is the face of my great Canada. Father
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: turned again toward his Huron children, demanded the order of
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: the Delawares. When was it ever otherwise returned Magua, he
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: calls my people, most beloved dot the Delaware, gravely bowed
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: his acquiescence to what he knew to be false, and continued,
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: the tomahawks of your young men have been very red.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: It is so, but they are now bright and dull,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: For the Yengeese are dead, and the Delawares are our neighbors.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: The other acknowledged the spacific compliment by a gesture of
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: the hand, and remain silent. Then Magua, as if recalled
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: to such a recollection by the allusion to the massacre demanded.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: Does my prisoner give trouble to my brothers, she is welcome.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: The path between the Hurons and the Delawares is short,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: and it is open. Let her be sent to my squaws.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: If she gives trouble to my brother she is welcome,
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: returned the chief of the latter nation, still more emphatically.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: The baffled Magua continued silent several minutes, apparently indifferent, however,
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: to the repulse he had received in this his opening
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: effort to regain possession of Cora. Do my young men
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: leave the Delawares room on the mountains for their hunts?
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: He at length continued, The Leunnapi are rulers of their
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: own hills, returned the other a little haughtily, it is well,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: Justice is the master of a red skin. Why should
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: they brighten their tomahawks and sharpen their knives against each other?
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: Are not the pale faces thicker than the swallows in
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: a season of flowers? Good exclaimed two or three of
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: his auditors. At the same time, Magua waited a little
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: to permit his words to soften the feelings of the Delawares,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: before he added have there not been strange moccasins in
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: the woods. Have not my brothers scented the feet of
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: white men? Let my Canada father come, returned the other evasively.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: His children are ready to see him. When the great
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: Chief comes, it is to smoke with the Indians in
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: their wigwams. The Hurons say, too, he is welcome. But
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: the Yengeese have long arms and legs that never tire.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: My young men dreamed they had seen the trail of
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: the Yengeese nigh the village of the Delawares. They will
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: not find the Lennapi asleep. It is well the warrior
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: whose eye is open can see his enemy, said Magua,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: once more, shifting his ground. When he found himself unable
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: to penetrate the caution of his companion, I have brought
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: giart to my brother. His nation would not go on
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: the war path because they did not think it well.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: But their friends have remembered where they lived. When he
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: had thus announced his liberal intention, the crafty chief arose
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: and gravely spread his presence before the dazzled eyes of
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: his hosts. They consisted principally of trinkets of little value
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: plundered from the slaughtered females of William Henry. In the
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: division of the baubles, the cunning Huron discovered no less
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: art than in their selection. While he bestowed those of
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: greater value on the two most distinguished warriors, one of
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: whom was his host. He seasoned his offerings to their
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: inferiors with such well timed and apposite compliments as left
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: them no ground of complaint. In short, the whole ceremony
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: contained such a happy blending of the profitable with the
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: flattering that it was not difficult for the donor immediately
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: to read the effect of a generosity so aptly mingled
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: with praise in the eyes of those he addressed. This
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: well judged and politic stroke on the part of Magua
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: was not without instantaneous results. The Delawares lost their gravity
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: in a much more cordial expression, and the host, in particular,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: after contemplating his own liberal share of the spoil for
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: some moments with peculiar gratification, repeated with strong emphasis the
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: words my brother is a wise chief. He is welcome.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: The Hurons love their friends. The Delawares returned Magua. Why
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: should they not. They are colored by the same sun,
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: and their just men will hunt in the same grounds
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: after death, the red Skins should be friends and look
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: with open eyes on the white men. Has not my
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: brother sent its spies in the woods. The Delaware, whose
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: name in English signified hard heart, an appellation that the
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: French had translated into lou curd'eu, forgot that obduracy of
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: purpose which had probably obtained him so significant a title.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: His countenance grew very sensibly less stern, and he now
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: deigned to answer more directly. There have been strange moccasins
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: about my camp. They have been tracked into my lodges.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: Did my brother beat out the dogs, asked Magua, without
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: adverting in any manner to the former equivocation of the chief.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: It would not do. The stranger is always welcome to
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: the children of the Lenape, the stranger, but not the spy.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: Would the Yengeese send their women as spies? Did not
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: the Huron chiefs say he took women in the battle?
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: He told no lie. The Yengeese have sent out their scouts.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: They have been in my wigwams, but they found there
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: no one to say welcome. Then they fled to the Delawares.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: For say they the Delawares are our friends. Their minds
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: are turned from their Canada father. This insinuation was a
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: home thrust, and one that in a more advanced state
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: of society, would have entitled Magua to the reputation of
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: a skillful diplomatist. The recent defection of the tribe had,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: as they well knew themselves, subjected the Delawares to much
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: reproach among their French allies, and they were now made
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: to feel that their future actions were to be regarded
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: with jealousy and distrust. There was no deep insight into
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: causes and effects necessary to foresee that such a situation
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: of things was likely to prove highly prejudicial to their
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: future movements. Their distant villages, their hunting grounds, and hundreds
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: of their women and children, together with a material part
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: of their physical force, were actually within the limits of
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: the French territory. Accordingly, this alarming enunciation was received, as
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: Magua intended, with manifest disapprobation, if not with alarm. Let
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: my father look in my face, said lou Kurder, He
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: will see no change. It is true, my young men
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: did not go out on the war path. They had
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: dreams for not doing so. But they love and venerate
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: the great White Chief. Will he think so when he
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: hears that his greatest enemy is fed in the camp
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: of his children, when he is told a bloody yenjee
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: smokes at your fire, that the pale face who has
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: slain so many of his friends goes in and out
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: among the Delawares, go, my great Canada father is not
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: a fool. Where is the yenji that the Delawares fear returned?
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: The other who has slain my young men? Who is
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: the mortal enemy of my great father? Lo long Carabin.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: The Delaware warriors started at the well known name, betraying
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: by their amazement that they now learned for the first time,
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: one so famous among the Indian allies of France was
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: within their power. What does my brother mean? Demanded lou Kurdur,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: in a tone that, by its wonder far exceeded the
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: usual apathy of his race. A Huron never lies, returned Magua, coldly,
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: leaning his head against the side of the lodge, and
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: drawing his slight robe across his tawny breast. Let the
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: Delawares count their prisoners. They will find one whose skin
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: is neither red nor pale. A long and musing pause succeeded.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: The chief consulted apart with his companions and messengers despatched
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: to collect certain others of the most distinguished men of
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: the tribe. As warrior after warrior dropped in, they were
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: each made acquainted in turn with the important intelligence that
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: Magua had just communicated. The air of surprise and the
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: usual low, deep guttural exclamation were common to them all.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: The news spread from mouth to mouth, until the whole
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: encampment became powerfully agitated. The women suspended their labors to
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: catch such syllables as unguardedly fell from the lips of
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: the consulting warriors. The boys deserted their sports, and, walking
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: fearlessly among their fathers, looked up in curious admiration as
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: they heard the brief exclamations of wonder they so freely
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: expressed the temerity of their hated foe. In short, every
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: occupation was abandoned for the time, and all other pursuits
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: seemed discarded, in order that the tribe might freely indulge,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: after their own peculiar manner, in an open expression of feeling.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: When the excitement had a little abetted, the old men
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: disposed themselves seriously to consider that which it became the
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: honor and safety of their tribe to perform under circumstances
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: of so much delicacy and embarrassment. During all these movements,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: and in the midst of the general commotion, Magua had
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: not only maintained his seat, but the very attitude he
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: had originally taken against the side of the lodge, where
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: he continued as immovable and apparently as unconcerned, as if
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: he had no interest in the result. Not a single
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: indication of the future intentions of his hosts, however, escaped
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: his vigilant eyes. With his consummate knowledge of the nature
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: of the people with whom he had to deal, he
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: anticipated every measure on which they decided, and it might
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: almost be said that in many instances he knew their
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: intentions even before they became known to themselves. The Council
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: of the Delawares was short. When it was ended, a
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: general bustle announced that it was to be immediately succeeded
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: by a solemn and formal assemblage of the nation, as
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: such meetings were rare and only called on occasions of
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: the last importance. The subtle Huron, who still sat apart,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: a wily and dark observer of the proceedings. Now knew
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: that all his projects must be brought to their final issue.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: He therefore left the lodge and walked silently forth to
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: the place in front of the encampment. Whether the warriors
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: were already beginning to collect, it might have been half
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: an hour before each individual, including even the women and children,
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: was in his place. The delay had been created by
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: the grave preparations that were deemed necessary to so solemn
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: and unusual a conference. But when the sun was seen
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: climbing above the tops of that mountain against whose bosom
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: the Delawares had constructed their encampment, most were seated, And
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: as his bright rays darted from behind the outline of
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: trees that fringed the eminence, they fell upon as grave,
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: as attentive, and as deeply interested a multitude as was
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: probably ever before lighted by his morning beams. Its number
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: somewhat exceeded a thousand souls. In a collection of so
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: serious savages, there is never to be found any impatient aspirant,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: after premature distinction, standing ready to move his auditors to
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: some hasty and perhaps injudicious discussion, in order that his
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: own reputation may be the gainer an act of so
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: much precipitancy and presumption would seal the downfall of precocious
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: intellect forever. It rested solely with the oldest and most
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: experienced of the men to lay the subject of the
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: conference before the people, until such a one chose to
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: make some movement. No deeds in arms, no natural gifts,
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: nor any renown as an orator would have justified the
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: slightest interruption. On the present occasion, the aged warrior, whose
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: privilege it was to speak, was silent, seemingly oppressed with
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: the magnitude of his subject. The delay had already continued
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: long beyond the usual deliberative pause that always preceded a conference,
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: but no sign of impatience or supper rise escaped even
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: the youngest boy. Occasionally, an I was raised from the earth,
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: where the looks of most were riveted, and strayed toward
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: a particular lodge that was, however, in no manner distinguished
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: from those around it, except in the peculiar care that
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: had been taken to protect it against the assaults of
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: the weather. At length, one of those low murmurs that
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: are so apt to disturb a multitude was heard, and
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: the whole nation arose to their feet by a common impulse.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: At that instant, the door of the lodge in question opened,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: and three men issuing from it slowly approached the place
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: of consultation. They were all aged even beyond that period
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: to which the oldest present had reached, but one in
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: the center, who leaned on his companions for support, had
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: numbered an amount of years to which the human race
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: is seldom permitted to attain. His frame, which had once
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: been tall and erect like the cedar, was now bending
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: under the pressure of more than a century. The elastic
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: light step of an Indian was gone, and in its
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: place he was com compelled to toil his tardy way
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: over the ground inch by inch. His dark, wrinkled countenance
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: was in singular and wild contrast with the long white
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: locks which floated on his shoulders in such thickness as
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: to announce that generations had probably passed away since they
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: had last been shorn. The dress of this patriarch for such,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: considering his vast age, in conjunction with his affinity and
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: influence with his people, he might very properly be termed
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: was rich and imposing, though strictly after the simple fashions
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: of the tribe. His robe was of the finest skins,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: which had been deprived of their fur, in order to
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: admit of a hieroglyphical representation of various deeds in arms
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: done in former ages. His bosom was loaded with metals,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: some in massive silver, and one or two even in gold,
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: the gifts of various Christian potentates during the long period
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: of his life. He also wore armlets and cinctures above
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: the ankles of the latter precious metal. His head, on
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: the whole of which the hair had been permitted to
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: grow the pursuits of war having so long been abandoned,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: was encircled by a sort of plated diadem, which, in
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: its turn bore lesser and more glittering ornaments that sparkled
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: amid the glossy hues of three drooping, ostrich feathers dyed
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: a deep black, in touching contrast to the color of
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: his snow white locks. His tomahawk was nearly hid in silver,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: and the handle of his knife shone like a horn
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: of solid gold. So soon as the first hum of
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: emotion and pleasure which the sudden appearance of this venerated
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: individual created, had a little subsided the name of tem
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: Nan was whispered from mouth to mouth. Magua had often
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: heard the fame of this wise and just delaware, a
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: reputation that even proceeded so far as to bestow on
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: him the rare gift of holding secret communion with the
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: Great Spirit, and which has since transmitted his name with
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: some slight alteration to the white usurpers of his ancient territory,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: as the imaginary tudel or saint too of a vast empire.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: The Huron chief therefore stepped eagerly out a little from
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: the throng to a spot, whence he might catch a
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: nearer glimpse of the features of the man whose decision
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: was likely to produce so deep an influence on his
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: own fortunes. Two. The Americans sometimes called their tutelar saint Aeimmeae,
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: a corruption of the name of the renowned chief here introduced.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: There are many traditions which speak of the character and
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: power of tem Nund. The eyes of the old man
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: were closed, as though the Organs were wearied with having
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: so long witnessed the selfish workings of the human passions.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: The color of his skin differed from that of most
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: around him, being richer and darker, the latter having been
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: produced by certain delicate and mazy lines of complicated and
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: yet beautiful figures, which have been traced over most of
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: his person by the operation of tattooing. Notwithstanding the position
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: of the huron, he passed the observant and silent Magua
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: without notice, and, leaning on his two venerable supporters, proceeded
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: to the high place of the multitude, where he seated
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: himself from the center of his nation, with the dignity
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: of a monarch, in the air of a father. Nothing
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: could surpass the reverence and affection with which this unexpected
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: visit from one who belongs rather to another world than
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: to this was received by his people. After a suitable
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: and decent pause, the principal chiefs arose, and approaching the patriarch,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: they placed his hands reverently on their heads, seeming to
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: entreat a blessing. The younger men were content with touching
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: his robe, or even drawing nigh his person, in order
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: to breathe in the atmosphere of one so aged, so just,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: and so valiant. None but the most distinguished among the
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: youthful warriors even presumed so far as to perform the
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: latter ceremony, the great mass of the multitude, deeming it
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: a sufficient happiness to look upon a form so deeply
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: venerated and so well beloved. When these acts of affection
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: and respect were performed, the chiefs drew back again to
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: their several places, and silence reigned in the whole encampment.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: After a short delay, a few of the young men,
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: to whom instructions had been whispered by one of the
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: aged attendants of Temnant arose, left the crowd and entered
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: the lodge, which has already been noted as the object
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: of so much attention throughout that morning. In a few
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: minutes they reappeared, escorting the individuals who had caused all
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: these solemn preparations toward the seat of judgment. The crowd
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: opened in a lane, and when the party had re entered,
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: it closed in again, forming a large and dense belt
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: of human bodies arranged in an open circle. Chapter twenty nine.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: The assembly seated, rising o'er the rest Achilles. Thus the
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: king of men addressed Pope's iliad. Korra stood foremost among
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: the prisoners entwining her arms in those of Alice in
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: the tenderness of sisterly love. Notwithstanding the fearful and menacing
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: array of savages on every side of her, No apprehension
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: on her own account could prevent the noble minded maiden
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: from keeping her eyes fastened on the pale and anxious
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: features of the trembling alice. Close at their side. Had
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: stood heyward with an interest in both that at such
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: a moment of intense uncertainty, scarcely knew a preponderance in
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: favor of her, whom he most loved. Hawkeye had placed
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: himself a little in the rear, with a deference to
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: the superior rank of his companions, that no similarity in
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: the state of their present fortunes could induce him to
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: forget Uncas was not there. When perfect silence was again restored,
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: and after the usual long, impressive pause, one of the
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: two aged chiefs who sat at the side of the
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: patriarch arose and demanded aloud, in very intelligible English, which
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: of my prisoners is lo long caravan? Neither Duncan nor
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: the scout answered. The former, however, glanced his eyes around
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: the dark and silent assembly, and recoiled a pace when
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: they fell on the malignant visage of Magua. He saw
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: at once that this wily savage had some secret agency
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: in their present arrayment before the nation, and determined to
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: throw every possible impediment in the way of the execution
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: of his sinister plans. He had witnessed one instance of
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: the summary punishments of the Indians, and now dreaded that
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: his companion was to be selected for a second in
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: this dilemma. With little or no time for reflection, he
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: suddenly determined to cloak his invaluable friend at any or
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: every hazard to himself. Before he had time, however, to speak,
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: the question was repeated in a louder voice and with
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: a clearer utterance. Give us arms, the young man haughtily replied,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: and place us in yonder woods. Our deeds shall speak
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: for us. This is the warrior whose name has filled
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: our ears. Return the chief regarding Heyward with that sort
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: of curious interest which seems inseparable from man when first
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: beholding one of his fellows, to whom merit or accident,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: virtue or crime has given notoriety. What has brought the
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: white man into the camp of the delawares My necessities
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: I come for food, shelter and friends. It cannot be.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: The woods are full of game. The head of a
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: warrior needs no other shelter than a sky without clouds.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: And the Delawares are the enemies, and not the friends
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: of the Yengeese. Go. The mouth has spoken, while the
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: heart said nothing. Duncan, a little at a loss in
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: what manner to proceed, remained silent. But the scout, who
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: had listened attentively to all that past, now advanced steadily
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: to the front. That I did not answer to the
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: call for lo long Caribin was not owing either to
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: shame or fear. He said, for neither one nor the
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: other is the gift of an honest man. But I
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: do not admit the right of the Mingoes to bestow
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: a name on one whose friends have been mindful of
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: his gifts. In this particular, especially as their title is
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: a lie kildeer, being a grooved beryl and no carabine.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: I am the man, however, that got the name of
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: Nathaniel from my kin, the complement of hawkeye from the Delawares,
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: who live on their own river, and whom the Iroquois
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: have presumed to style the long rifle without any warranty
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: from him who is most concerned in the matter. The
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: eyes of all present, which had hitherto been gravely scanning
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: the person of Duncan, were now turned on the instant
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: toward the upright iron frame of this new pretender to
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: the distinguished appellation. It was in no degree remarkable that
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: there should be found two who were willing to claim
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: so great an honor for impostors, though rare, were not
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: unknown among the natives. But it was altogether material to
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: the just and severe intentions of the Delawares that there
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: should be no mistake in the matter. Some of their
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: old men consulted together in private, and then, as it
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: would seem, they determined to interrogate their visitor on the subject.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: My brother has said that a snake crept into my camp,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: said the chief to Magua, which is he? The Huron
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: pointed to the scout. Will a wise delaware believe the
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: barking of a wolf? Exclaimed Duncan, still more confirmed in
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: the evil intentions of his ancient enemy. A dog never lies,
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: But when was a wolf known to speak the truth?
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: The eyes of Magua flashed fire, but suddenly, recollecting the
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: necessity of maintaining his presence of mind, he turned away
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: in silent disdain, while assured that the sagacity of the
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: Indians would not fail to extract the real merits of
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: the point in controversy. He was not deceived, for after
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: another short consultation, the wary Delaware turned to him again
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: and expressed the determination of the chiefs. Though in the
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: most considerate language. My brother has been called a liar,
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: he said, and his friends are angry. They will show
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: that he has spoken the truth. Give my prisoners guns
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: and let them prove which is the man. Magua affected
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: to consider the expedient, which he well knew proceeded from
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: distrust of himself as a compliment, and made a gesture
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: of acquiescence, while content that his veracity should be supported
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: by so skillful a marksman as the Scout. The weapons
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: were instantly placed in the hands of the friendly opponents,
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: and they were bid to fire over the heads of
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: the seated multitude at an earthen vessel, which lay, by
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: accident on a stump some fifty yards from the place
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: where they stood. Heyward smiled to himself at the idea
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: of a competition with the scout, though he determined to
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: persevere in the deception until apprized of the real designs
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: of Magua, raising his rifle with the utmost care and
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: renewing his aim three several times, he fired the bullet,
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: cut the wood within a few inches of the vessel,
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: and a general exclamation of satisfaction announced that the shot
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: was considered a proof of great skill in the use
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: of a weapon. Even Hawkeye nodded his head as if
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: he would say it was better than he expected, but
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: instead of manifesting an intention to contend with the successful marksman,
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: he stood leaning on his rifle for more than a minute,
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: like a man who was completely buried in thought. From
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: this reverie. He was, however, awakened by one of the
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: young Indians who had furnished the arms, and who now
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: touched his shoulder, saying, in exceedingly broken English, can the
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: pale face beat it? Yes? Huron, exclaimed the scout, raising
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: the short rifle in his right hand and shaking it
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: at Magua with as much apparent ease as if it
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: were a reed. Yes, Huron, I could strike you now,
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: and no power on Earth could prevent the deed. The
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: soaring hawk is not more certain of the dove than
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: I am. This moment of you did, I choose to
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: send a bullet to your heart? Why should I not?
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: Why because the gifts of my color forbid it, and
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: I might draw down evil on tender and innocent heads.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: If you know such a being as God, thank him
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: therefore in your inward soul, for you have reason. The
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: flushed countenance, angry eye, and swelling figure of the Scout
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: produced a sensation of secret awe in all that hurt him.
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: The Delawares held their breath in expectation. But Magua himself,
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: even while he distrusted the forbearance of his enemy, remained
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: immovable and calm where he stood, wedged in by the
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: crowd as one who grew to the spot, Beat it
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: repeated the young delaware at the elbow of the scout.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: Beat what fool? What? Exclaimed Hawkeye, still flourishing the weapon
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: angrily above his head, though his eye no longer sought
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: the person of Magua. If the white man is the
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: warrior he pretends, said the aged chief, let him strike
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: nigher to the mark. The scout laughed aloud, a noise
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: that produced the startling effect of an unnatural sound on Heyward,
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: then dropping the piece heavily into his extended left hand.
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: It was discharged, apparently by the shock, driving the fragments
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: of the vessel into the air and scattering them on
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: every side. Almost at the same instant, the rattling sound
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: of the rifle was heard as he suffered it to
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: fall contemptuously to the earth. The first impression of so
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: strange a scene was engrossing admiration. Then a low but
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: increasing murmur ran through the multitude, and finally swelled into
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: sounds that denoted a lively opposition in the sentiments of
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: the spectators. While some openly testified their satisfaction that so
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: unexampled dexterity, by far the larger portion of the tribe
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: were inclined to believe the success of the shot was
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: the result of accident. Heyward was not slow to confirm
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: an opinion that was so favorable to his own pretensions.
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: It was chance, he exclaimed, None can shoot without an aim. Chance,
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: echoed the excited woodsman, who was now stubbornly bent on
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: maintaining his identity at every hazard, and on whom the
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: secret hints of Heyward to acquiesce in the deception were
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: entirely lost. Does yonder lying Huron too think it chance,
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: give him another gun and place us face to face
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: without cover or dodge, and let providence and our own
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: eyes decide the matter between us. I do not make
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: the offer to you, Major, for our blood is of
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: a color, and we serve the same master. That the
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: Huron is a liar is very evident, returned hayword coolly.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: You have yourself forard him assert you to be lo
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: long Cariban. It were impossible to say what violent assertion
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: the stubborn hawkeye would have next made in his headlong
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: wish to vindicate his identity, had not the aged Delaware
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: once more interposed, the hawk which comes from the clouds
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: can return when he will, he said, give them the guns.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: This time the scout seized the rifle with avidity. Nor
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: had Magua, though he watched the movements of the marksmen
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: with jealous eyes, any further cause for apprehension. Now let
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: it be proved in the face of this tribe of Delawares,
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: which is the better man? Cried the scout, tapping the
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: butt of his piece with that finger which had pulled
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: so many fatal triggers. You see that gourd hanging against
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: yonder tree. Major, if you are a marksman fit for
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: the boarders. Let me see you break its shell. Duncan
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: noted the object and prepared himself to renew the trial.
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: The gourd was one of the usual little vessels used
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: by the Indians, and it was suspended from a dead
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: branch of a small pine by a thong of deerskin,
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: at the full distance of a hundred yards. So strangely
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: compounded is the feeling of self love that the young soldier,
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: while he knew the utter worthlessness of the suffrages of
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: his savage umpires, forgot the sudden motives of the contest
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: in a wish to excel. It had been seen already
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: that his skill was far from being contemptible, and he
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: now resolved to put forth its nicest qualities. Had his
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: life depended on the issue, the aim of Duncan could
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: not have been more deliberate or guarded. He fired, and
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: three or four young Indians, who sprang forward at the report,
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: announced with a shout that the ball was in the tree,
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: a very little on one side of the proper object.
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: The warriors uttered a common ejaculation of pleasure, and then
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: turned their eyes inquiringly on the movements of his rival.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: It may do for the royal Americans, said Hawkeye, laughing
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: once more in his own silent, heartfelt manner. But had
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: my gun often turned and so much from the true line,
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: many a martin whose skin is now in a lady's
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: muff would still be in the woods. I and many
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: a bloody mingo who has departed to his final account,
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: would be acting his deviltries at this very day between
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: the provinces. I hope the squaw who owns the gourd
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: has more of them in her wigwam, for this will
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: never hold water again. The scout had shook his priming
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: and cocked his piece while speaking, and as he ended,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: he threw back a foot and slowly raised the muzzle
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: from the earth. The motion was steady, uniform, and in
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: one direction. When on a perfect level, it remained for
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: a single moment without tremor or variation, as though both
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: man and rifle were carved in stone. During that stationary instant,
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: it poured forth its contents in a bright, glancing sheet
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: of flame. Again, the young Indians bounded forward, but their
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: hurried search and disappointed looks announced that no traces of
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: the bullet were to be seen. Go said the old
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: chief to the scout in a tone of strong disgust,
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: thou art a wolf in the skin of a dog.
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: I will talk to the long rifle of the Yengeese.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: Ah had I that piece which furnished the name you use.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: I would obligate myself to cut the thong and drop
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: the gourd without breaking it, returned Hawkeye, perfectly undisturbed by
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: the other's manner. Fools, if you would find the bullet
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: of a sharpshooter in these woods, you must look in
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: the object and not around it. The Indian youths instantly
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: comprehended his meaning. For this time he spoke in the
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: delaware tongue, and tearing the gourd from the tree, they
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: held it on high with an exulting shout, displaying a
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: hole in its bottom, which had been cut by the
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: bullet after passing through the usual orifice in the center
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: of its upper side. At this unexpected exhibition, a loud
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: and vehement expression of pleasure burst from the mouth of
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: every warrior present. It decided the question and effectually established
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: Hawkeye in the possession of his dangerous reputation. Those curious
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: and admiring eyes which had been turned again on Heyward,
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: were finally directed to the weather beaten form of the scout,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: who immediately became the principal object of attention to the
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: simple and unsophisticated beings by whom he was surrounded. When
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: the sudden and noisy commotion had a little subsided, the
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: aged chief resumed his examination. Why did you wish to
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: stop my ears? He said, addressing Duncan. Are the Delawares
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: fools that they could not know the young panther from
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: the cat? They will yet find the Huron a singing bird,
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: said Duncan, endeavoring to adopt the figurative language of the natives.
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: It is good we will know who can shut the
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: ears of men, brother, added the Chief, turning his eyes
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: on Magua. The Delawares listen, thus singled, and directly called
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: on to declare his object. The Huron arose and advancing
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: with great deliberation and dignity, into the very center of
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: the circle, where he stood confronted by the prisoners. He
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: placed himself in an attitude to speak. Before opening his mouth, however,
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: he bent his eyes slowly along the whole living boundary
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: of earnest faces, as if to temper his expressions. To
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: the capacities of his audience. On Hawkeye, he cast a
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: glance of respectful enmity. On Duncan, a look of inextinguishable hatred.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: The shrinking figure of Alice he scarcely deigned to notice.
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: But when his glance met the firm, commanding and yet
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: lovely form of Cora, his eye lingered a moment with
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: an expression that it might have been difficult to define. Then,
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: filled with his own dark intentions, he spoke in the
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: language of the Canadas, a tongue that he well knew
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: was comprehended by most of his auditors. The spirit that
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: made men colored them differently commenced the subtle huron. Some
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: are blacker than the sluggish bear. These he said should
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: be slaves, and he ordered them to work forever like
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: the beaver. You may hear them groan when the south
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: wind blows louder than the lowing buffaloes along the shores
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: of the Great Salt Lake, where the big canoes come
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: and go with them in droves. Some he made with
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: faces paler than the ermine of the forests, and these
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: he ordered to be traders, dogs to their women, and
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: wolves to their slaves. He gave this people the nature
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: of the pigeon, wings that never tire, young, more plentiful
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: than the leaves on the trees, and appetites to devour
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: the earth. He gave them tongues like the false call
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: of the wild cat. Hearts like rabbits, the cunning of
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: the hog, but none of the fox, and arms longer
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: than the legs of the moose. With his tongue he
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: stops the ears of the Indians. His heart teaches him
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: to pay warriors to fight his battles. His cunning tells
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: him how to get together the goods of the earth.
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: And his arms enclosed the land, from the shores of
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: the salt water to the islands of the great Lake.
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: His gluttony makes him sick. God gave him enough, and
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: yet he wants all. Such are the pale faces some
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: the Great Spirit made with skins brighter and redder than yonder. Sun,
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: continued Magua, pointing impressively upward to the lurid luminary which
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: was struggling through the misty atmosphere of the horizon. And
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: these did he fashion to his own mind. He gave
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: them this island as he had made it, covered with
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: trees and filled with game, the wind made their clearings,
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: the sun and rain ripened their fruits, and the snows
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: came to tell them to be thankful. What need had
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: they of roads to journey by? They saw through the hills.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: When the beavers worked, they lay in the shade and
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: looked on. The winds cooled them in summer. In winter,
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: skins kept them warm. If they fought among themselves, it
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: was to prove that they were men. They were brave,
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: they were just. They were happy. Here. The speaker paused
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: and again looked around him to discover if his legend
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: had touched the sympathies of his listeners. He met everywhere
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: with eyes riveted on his own, heads erect and nostrils expanded,
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: as if each individual present felt himself able and willing
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: singly to redress the wrongs of his race. If the
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: Great Spirit gave different tongues to his red children, he continued,
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: in a low, still melancholy voice, it was that all
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: animals might understand them. Some he placed among the snows
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: with their cousin the bear. Some he placed near the
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: setting sun, on the road to the happy hunting grounds,
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: some on the lands around the great fresh waters. But
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: to his greatest and most beloved He gave the sands
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: of the salt lake. Do my brothers know the name
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: of this favored people? It was the Lenape, exclaimed twenty
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: eager voices in a breath. It was the Lenni Lenape
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: returned Magua, affecting to bend his head in reverence to
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: their former greatness. It was the tribes of the Lenape.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: The sun rose from water that was salt, and set
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: in water that was sweet, and never hid himself from
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: their eyes. But why should I, a huron of the woods,
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: tell a wise people their own traditions? Why remind them
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: of their injarees, their ancient greatness, their deeds, their glory,
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: their happiness, their losses, their defeats, their misery. Is there
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: not one among them who has seen it all and
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: who knows it to be true? I have done. My
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: tongue is still, for my heart is of lead. I
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: listen as the voice of the speaker suddenly ceased, Every
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: face and all eyes turned by a common movement towards
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: the venerable tem Nun. From the moment that he took
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: his seat until the present instant, the lips of the
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: patriarch had not severed and scarcely a sign of life
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: had escaped him. He sat bent in feebleness and apparently
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: unconscious of the presence he was in during the whole
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: of that opening scene in which the skill of the
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: scout had been so clearly established. At the nicely graduated
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: sound of Magua's voice, however, he betrayed some evidence of consciousness,
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: and once or twice he even raised his head as
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: if to listen. But when the crafty Huron spoke of
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: his nation by name, the eyelids of the old man
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: raised themselves, and he looked out upon the multitude with
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: that sort of dull, unmeaning expression which might be supposed
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: to belong to the countenance of a specter. Then he
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: made an effort to rise, and, being upheld by his supporters,
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: he gained his feet in a posture commanding by its dignity,
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: while he tottered with weakness. Who calls upon the children
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: of the lenape? He said, in a deep, guttural voice
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: that was rendered awfully audible by the breathless silence of
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: the multitude. Who speaks of things gone? Does not the
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: egg become a worm, the worm of fly and perish?
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: Why tell the delawares of good that is past, better
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: thank the manitude for that which remains. It is a wyandot,
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: said Magua, stepping nigher to the rude platform on which
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: the other stood. A friend of Temnan. A friend repeated
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: the sage on whose brow a dark frown settled, imparting
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: a portion of that severity which had rendered his eyes
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: so terrible. In middle Age are the mingos rulers of
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: the earth. What brings a Huron in here? Justice? His
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: prisoners are with his brothers, and he comes for his
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 1: own team. Nan turned his head toward one of his
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: supporters and listened to the short explanation the man gave. Then,
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: facing the applicant, he regarded him a moment with deep attention,
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: after which he said, in a low and reluctant voice,
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: justice is the law of the great manitou, my children
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: give the stranger food, Then Huron take thine own, and depart.
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: On the delivery of this solemn judgment. The patriarch seated
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: himself and closed his eyes again, as if better pleased
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: with the images of his own ripened experience than with
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: the visible objects of the world. Against such a decree,
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: there was no delaware sufficiently hearty to murmur, much less
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: oppose himself. The words were barely uttered when four or
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: five of the younger warriors, stepping behind Heyward and the Scout,
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: passed throng so extrously and rapidly around their arms as
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: to hold them both in instant bondage. The former was
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: too much engrossed with his precious and nearly insensible burden
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: to be aware of their intentions before they were executed,
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: and the latter, who considered even the hostile tribes of
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: the Delawares a superior race of beings, submitted without resistance. Perhaps, however,
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: the manner of the Scout would not have been so
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: passive had he fully comprehended the language in which the
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: preceding dialog had been conducted. Magua cast a look of
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: triumph around the whole assembly before he proceeded to the
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: execution of his purpose. Perceiving that the men were unable
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: to offer any resistance, he turned his looks on her
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: he valued most Cora met his gaze with an eye
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: so calm and firm that his resolution wavered. Then, recollecting
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: his former artifice, he raised alice from the arms of
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: the warrior, against whom she leaned, and beckoning Heyward to follow,
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: he motioned for the encircling crowd to open, but Cora,
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: instead of obeying the impulse he had expected, rushed to
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: the feet of the patriarch, and, raising her voice, exclaimed aloud,
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: just and venerable, delaware on thy wisdom and power, we
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: lean for mercy. Be deaf to yonder artful and remorseless
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: monster who poisons thy ears with falsehoods to feed his
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: thirst for blood. Thou, that hast lived long, and that
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: hast seen the evil of the world, should know how
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: to temper its calamities. To the miserable illustration, the eyes
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: of the old man opened heavily, and he once more
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: looked upward at the multitude. As the piercing tones of
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: the suppliant swelled on his ears. They moved slowly in
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: the direction of her person, and finally settled there in
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: a steady gaze. Cora had cast herself to her knees,
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: and with hands clenched in each other and pressed upon
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: her bosom, she remained like a beauteous and breathing model
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: of her sex, looking up in his faded but majestic countenance,
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: with a species of holy reverence. Gradually the expression of
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: tame man's features changed, and, losing their vacancy in admiration,
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: they lighted with a portion of that intelligence which a
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: century before had been wont to communicate his youthful fire
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: to the extensive bands of the Delawares. Rising without assistance
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: and seemingly without an effort, he demanded, in a voice
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: that startled its auditors by its firmness, What art thou
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: a woman one of a hated race, if thou wilt
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: a yenji, but one who has never harmed thee, and
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: who cannot harm thy people? If she would, who asks
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 1: for succor tell me my children, continued the patriarch, hoarsely,
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: motioning to those around him, though his eyes still dwelt
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: upon the kneeling form of Cora. Where have the Delawares
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: camped in the mountains of the Iroquois, beyond the clear
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: springs of the Horican? Many parchaying summers are come and gone,
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: continued the sage. Since I drank of the water of
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: my own rivers. The children of minquin One are the
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: justest white men. But they were thirsty, and they took
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: it to themselves. Do they follow us so far? One
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: William Penn was termed Minkuin by the Delawares, and as
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: he never used violence or injustice in his dealings with them,
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: his reputation for probity passed into a proverb. The American
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: is justly proud of the origin of his nation, which
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: is perhaps unequal in the history of the world. But
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: the Pennsylvanian and jersey Man have more reason to value
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: themselves in their ancestors than the natives of any other state.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: Since no wrong was done the original owners of the soil.
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: We follow none. We covet nothing, answered Cora captives. Against
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: our wills? Have we been brought amongst you? And we
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: ask but permission to depart to our own in peace?
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: Art thou not tame none? The father the judge, I
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: had almost said the prophet of this people, I obtain
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: none of many days. Tis now some seven years that
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: one of thy people was at the mercy of a
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: white chief on the borders of this province. He claimed
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: to be of the blood of the good good, and
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: just tame none. Go said the white man, for thy
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: parents sake, thou art free. Dost thou remember the name
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 1: of that English warrior? I remember that when a laughing
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: boy returned the patriarch with the peculiar recollection of vast age.
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: I stood upon the sands of the sea shore, and
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: saw a big canoe with wings whiter than the swans,
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: and whiter than many eagles, come from the rising sun. Nay, nay,
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: I speak not of a time so very distant, but
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: a favor shown to thy kindred by one of mine,
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: within the memory of thy youngest warrior. Was it when
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: the Yengeese and the Dutchman fought for the hunting grounds
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: of the Delawares? Then tem Nund was a chief, and
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: first laid aside the bow for the lightning of the
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: pale faces. Not yet, then, interrupted Cora by many ages,
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: I speak of a thing of yesterday. Surely, surely you
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: forget it. Not it was but yesterday, rejoined the aged
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: man with touching pathos, that the children of the Lennape
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: were masters of the world. The fishes of the salt lake,
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: the birds, the beasts, and the Mengi of the woods
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: owned them. For Sagamores, cor abowed her head in disappointment,
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: and for a bitter moment struggled with her chagrin. Then
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: elevating her rich features and beaming eyes. She continued, in
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: tones scarcely less penetrating than the unearthly voice of the
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: patriarch himself. Tell me is tamed un a father. The
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: old man looked down upon her from his elevated stand,
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: with a benignant smile on his wasted countenance, and then
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: casting his eyes slowly over the whole assemblage, he answered,
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: of a nation for myself, I ask nothing like thee
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: and thine venerable chief. She continued, pressing her hands convulsively
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: on her heart and suffering her head to droop until
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: her burning cheeks were nearly concealed in the maze of dark,
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: glossy tresses that fell in disorder upon her shoulders. The
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: curse of my ancestors has fallen heavily on their child.
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: But Yonder is one who has never known the weight
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: of Heaven's displeasure until now. She is the daughter of
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: an old and failing man whose days are near their clothes.
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: She has many, very many to love her and delight
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: in her, And she is too good, much too precious
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: to become the victim of that villain. I know that
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: the pale faces are a proud and hungry race. I
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: know that they claim not only to have the earth,
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: but that the meanest of their color is better than
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: the satchems of the red man. The dogs and crows
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: of their tribes, continued the earnest old chieftain, without heeding
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: the wounded spirit of his listener, whose head was nearly
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: crushed to the earth in shame, as he proceeded, would
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: bark and call before they would take a woman to
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: their wigwams whose blood was not of the color of snow.
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: But let them not boast before the face of the
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: magnitude too loud. They entered the land at the rising,
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: and may yet go off at the setting sun. I
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: have often seen the locusts strip the leaves from the trees,
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: but the season of blossoms has always come again. It
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: is so, said Cora, drawing a long breath, as if
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: reviving from a trance, raising her face and shaking back
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: her shining veil with a kindling eye that contradicted the
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: deathlike paleness of her countenance. But why it has not
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: permitted us to inquire? There is yet one of thine
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: own people who has not been brought before thee. Before
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: thou lettest the Huron depart in triumph hear him speak,
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: observing tem nun to look about him doubtingly. One of
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: his companions said, it is a snake, a red skin,
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: in the pay of the Yengeese. We keep him for
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: the torture. Let him come return this sage. Then tem
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: Nan once more sank into his seat, and a silence
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: so deep prevailed, while the young man prepared to obey
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: his simple mandate, that the leaves which fluttered in the
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: draft of the light morning air were distinctly heard rustling
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: in the surrounding forest. Chapter thirty. If you deny me,
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: fly upon your law. There is no force in the
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 1: decrees of Venice. I stand for judgment. Answer, shall I
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: have it? Merchant of Venice. The silence continued, unbroken by
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: human sounds, for many anxious minutes. Then the waving multitude
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: opened and shut again, and uncas stood in the living circle.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: All those eyes which had been curiously studying the lineaments
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: of the sage as the source of their own intelligence,
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: turned on the instant, and were now bent in secret
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: admiration on the erect, agile and faultless person of the captive.
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: But neither the presence in which he found himself, nor
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: the exclusive attention that he attracted in any manner disturbed
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: the self possession of the young Mohican. He cast a
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 1: deliberate and observing look on every side of him, meeting
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: the settled expression of hostility that lowered in the visages
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 1: of the chiefs, with the same calmness as the curious
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 1: gaze of the attentive children. But when last, in this
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: haughty scrutiny, the person of Tamnan came under his glance,
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: his eye became fixed, as though all other objects were
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: already forgotten. Then, advancing with a slow and noiseless step
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: up the area, he placed himself immediately before the footstool
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: of the sage. Here he stood unnoted, though keenly observant himself,
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: until one of the chiefs surprized the latter of his presence.
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 1: With what tongue does the prisoner speak to the Manitu?
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: Demanded the patriarch, without unclosing his eyes. Illustration, With what
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: tongue does the prisoner speak to the Manitu like his
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 1: father's uncas replied with the tongue of a delaware at
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: this sudden and unexpected annunciation. Below, fierce yell ran through
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: the multitude that might not unaptly be compared to the
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: growl of the lion as his collar is first awakened,
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: a fearful omen of the weight of his future anger.
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: The effect was equally strong on the sage, though differently exhibited.
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: He passed a hand before his eyes, as if to
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 1: exclude the least evidence of so shameful a spectacle, while
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: he repeated, in his low guttural tones the words he
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 1: had just heard a delaware. I have lived to see
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: the tribes of the Lenape driven from their council fires
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 1: and scattered like broken herds of deer among the hills
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 1: of the Iroquois. I have seen the hatchets of a
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: strong people's sweep woods from the valleys that the winds
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: of heaven have spared, the beasts that run on the mountains,
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: and the birds that fly above the trees. Have I
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 1: seen living in the wigwams of men. But never before
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: have I found a Delaware so base as to creep
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: like a poisonous serpent into the camps of his nation.
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: The singing birds have opened their bills, returned uncas in
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: the softest notes of his own musical voice, and tam
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: Nun has heard their song. The sage started and bent
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: his head aside, as if to catch the fleeting sounds
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 1: of some passing melody. Does tain nun dream? He exclaimed,
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: what voice is at his ear? Have the winters gone backward?
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: Will summer come again to the children of the Lenape?
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: A solemn and respectful silence succeeded this incoherent burst from
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: the lips of the Delaware prophet. His people readily constructed
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: his unintelligible language into one of those mysterious conferences he
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: was believed to hold so frequently with a superior intelligence,
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 1: and they awaited the issue of the revelation in all.
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 1: After a patient pause. However, one of the aged men,
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: perceiving that the Sage had lost the recollection of the
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 1: subject before them, ventured to remind him again of the
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: presence of the prisoner. The false Delaware trembles, lest he
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: should hear the words obtain none, he said, tis a
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: hound that howls when the Yengeese show him a trail,
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 1: and ye returned uncas, looking sternly around him. Are dogs
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: that whine when the Frenchman casts he the offuls of
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: his deer. Twenty knives gleamed in the air, and as
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: many warriors sprang to their feet at this biting and
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 1: perhaps merited retort, But a motion from one of the
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 1: chiefs suppressed the outbreaking of their tempers and restored the
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: appearance of quiet. The task might probably have been more
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: difficult had not a movement made by tain None indicated
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: that he was again about to speak. Delaware resumed the sage,
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: Little art, Thou, worthy of thy name. My people have
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: not seen a bright sun in many winters. And the
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 1: warrior who deserts his tribe when hidden clouds is doubly
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 1: a traitor. The law of the Manitou is just. It
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: is so while the rivers run and the mountain stand,
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: while the blossoms come and go on the trees. It
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: must be so. He is thine. My children deal justly
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: by him. Not a limb was moved, nor was a
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: breath drawn louder and longer than common, until the closing
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: syllable of this final decree had passed the lips of
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 1: tam None. Then a cry of vengeance burst at once,
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: as it might be from the united lips of the nation,
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: a frightful augury of their ruthless intentions. In the midst
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: of these prolonged and savage yells. A chief proclaimed in
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: a high voice that the captive was condemned to endure
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: the dreadful trial of torture by fire. The circle broke
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: its order, and screams of delight mingled with the bustle
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: and tumult of preparation. Heyward struggled madly with his captors.
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 1: The anxious eye of Hawkeye began to look around him
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: with an expression of peculiar earnestness, and Cora again threw
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: herself at the feet of the patriarch, once more as
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: suppliant for mercy. Throughout the whole of these trying moments,
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: Uncas had alone preserved his serenity. He looked on the
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: preparations with a steady eye, and when the tormentors came
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: to seize him, he met them with a firm and
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 1: upright attitude. One among them, if possible, more fierce and
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: savage than his fellows, seized the hunting shirt of the
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 1: young warrior, and at a single effort, tore it from
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: his body. Then, with a yell of frantic pleasure, he
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: leaped toward his unresisting victim and prepared to lead him
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: to the stake. But at that moment when he appeared
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: most a stranger to the feelings of humanity, The purpose
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: of the savage was arrested, as suddenly as if a
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: supernatural agency had interposed in the behalf of Uncas. The
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 1: eye of the delaware seemed to start from their sockets.
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: His mouth opened, and his whole form became frozen in
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: an attitude of amazement. Raising his hand with a slow
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: and regulated motion, he pointed with a finger to the
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: bosom of the captive. His companions crowded about him in wonder,
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: and every eye was like his own, fastened intently on
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: the figure of a small tortoise beautifully tattooed on the
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: breast of the prisoner in a bright blue tint. For
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: a single instant, Uncas enjoyed his triumph, smiling calmly on
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: the scene. Then motioning the crowd away with a high
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: and haughty sweep of his arm, he advanced in front
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: of the nation with the air of a king, and
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 1: spoke in a voice louder than the murmur of admiration
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: that ran through the multitude men of the Lenny Lennape.
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 1: He said, my race upholds the earth. Your feeble tribe
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: stands on my shell. What fire that a delaware can
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: light would burn the child of my father's, he added,
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 1: pointing proudly to the simple blazonry on his skin. The
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 1: blood that came from such a stalk would smother you flames.
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: My race is the grandfather of nations, who art thou demanded,
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: tem Nun, rising at the startling tones he heard, more
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: than at any meaning conveyed by the language of the prisoner. Uncas,
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: the son of Chingachgook, answered the captive, modestly, turning from
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: the nation and bending his head in reverence to the
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 1: other's character and years. A son of the great Unamus
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: one one turtle. The hour of te Nund is nigh,
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: exclaimed the sage. The day is come at last to
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: the night. I thank the Manitou that one is here
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: to fill my place at the council fire. Uncas, the
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: child of Uncas is found. Let the eyes of a
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: dying eagle gaze on the rising sun. The youth stepped
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: lightly but proudly on the platform, where he became visible
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: to the whole agitated and wondering multitude. Te Nun held
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: him long at the length of his arm, and read
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 1: every turn in the fine lineaments of his countenance, with
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: the the untiring gaze of one who recalled days of happiness,
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: is tamed none a boy. At length, the bewildered prophet exclaimed,
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: have I dreamed of so many snows that my people
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 1: were scattered like floating sands of yengeese more plenty than
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 1: the leaves on the trees. The arrow of Temnune would
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 1: not frighten the fawn. His arm is withered like the
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: branch of a dead oak. The snail would be swifter
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: in the race. Yet is Uncas before him as they
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 1: went to battle against the pale faces. Uncas, the panther
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: of his tribe, the eldest son of the Lenape, the
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: wisest Sagamore of the Mohicans. Tell me he Delawares has
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: tamed none been a sleeper for a hundred winters. The
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: calm and deep silence which succeeded these words sufficiently announced
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: the awful reverence with which his people received the communication
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 1: of the patriarch. None dared to answer, though all listened
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: in breathless expectation of what might follow. Uncas, however, looking
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: in his face with the fondness and veneration of a
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: favored child, presumed on his own high and acknowledged rank
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: to reply. For warriors of his race have lived and died,
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 1: he said, since the friend of Temnan led his people
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: in battle. The blood of the turtle has been in
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: many chiefs, but all have gone back into the earth
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 1: from whence they came, except Chingachgook and his son. It
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: is true. It is true, returned the sage a flash
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 1: of recollection, destroying all his pleasing fancies, and restoring him
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: at once to a consciousness of the true history of
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: his nation. Our wise men have often said that two
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: warriors of the unchanged race were in the hills of
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: the Yengeese. Why have their seats at the council fires
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 1: of the Delawares been so long empty? At these words,
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: the young man raised his head, which he had still kept,
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: bowed a little in reverence, and lifting his voice so
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 1: as to be heard by the multitude, as if to
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: explain at once and forever the policy of his family.
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: He said aloud. Once we slept where we could hear
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 1: the salt lake speak in its anger. Then we were
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: rulers and sagons over the land. But when a pale
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 1: face was seen on every brook, we followed the deer
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: back to the river of our nation. The Delawares were gone.
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: Few warriors of them all stayed to drink of the
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 1: stream they loved. Then said my fathers, here will we hunt.
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 1: The waters of the river go into the salt lake.
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 1: If we go toward the setting sun, we shall find
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: streams that run into the great lakes of sweet water.
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: There would a Mohican die like fishes of the sea
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 1: in the clear springs. When the Manitou is ready and
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 1: shall say, come, we will follow the river to the
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: sea and take our own again. Such delawares is the
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 1: belief of the children of the Turtle. Our eyes are
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: on the rising and not toward the setting sun. We
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: know whence he comes, but we know not whither he goes.
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 1: It is enough. The men of the Lennape listened to
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 1: his words with all the respect that superstition could lend,
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: finding a secret charm even in the figurative language with
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: which the young Sagamore imparted his ideas Uncas himself watched
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: the effect of his brief explanation with intelligent eyes and
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: gradually dropped the air of authority he had assumed, as
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: he perceived that his auditors were content, then, permitting his
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 1: looks to wander over the silent throng that crowded around
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 1: the elevated seat of tam Nant, he first perceived Hawkeye
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: in his bonds. Stepping eagerly from his stand, he made
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: way for himself to the side of his friend, and
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 1: cutting his thongs with a quick and angry stroke of
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 1: his own knife, he motioned to the crowd to divide.
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 1: The Indians silently obeyed, and once more they stood ranged
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: in their circle as before his appearance among them. Uncas
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: took the scout by the hand and led him to
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: the feet of the patriarch Father. He said, look at
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: this pale face, a just man and the friend of
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: the Delawares. Is he a son of Minquin? Not so?
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: A warrior known to the Yengeese and feared by the Maquas.
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 1: What name has he gained his deeds? We call him Hawkeye,
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: Uncas replied, using the Delaware phrase for his sight never fails.
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 1: The Mingoes know him better by the death he gives
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: their warriors with them. He is the long rifled dot
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 1: l long Carabin exclaimed tem Nund, opening his eyes and
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 1: regarding the scout sternly. My son has not done well
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 1: to call him friend. I call him so who proves
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: himself such, returned the young chief with great calmness, but
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 1: with a steady mien. If Uncas is welcome among the Delawares,
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 1: then is Hawkeye with his friends. The pale face has
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: slain my young men. His name is great for the
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 1: blows he has struck the Lennape. If a Mingo has
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: whispered that much in the year of the Delaware, he
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: has only shown that he is a singing bird, said
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: the scout, who now believed that it was time to
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: vindicate himself from such offensive charges, and who spoke as
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: the man he addressed, modifying his Indian figures, however, with
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: his own peculiar notions. That I have slain the Mockas,
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: I am not the man to deny even at their
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: own council fires, but that knowingly my hand has never
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 1: harmed a Delaware is opposed to the reason of my gifts,
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: which is friendly to them and all that belongs to
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 1: their nation. A low exclamation of applause passed among the warriors,
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 1: who exchanged looks with each other, like men that first
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: began to perceive their error. Where is the huron demanded,
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 1: tam Nund, has he stopped my years? Magua, whose feelings
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 1: during that scene in which Uncas had triumphed may be
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: much better imagined than described, answered to the call by
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: stepping boldly in front of the patriarch. The just tam Nun,
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 1: he said, will not keep what a Huron has lent.
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: Tell me, son of my brother, returned the sage, avoiding
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: the dark countenance of Lesuttle and turning gladly to the
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 1: more ingenuous features of Uncas. Has the stranger a conquerors
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 1: right over you? He has none. The panther may get
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: into snares set by the women, but he is strong
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 1: and knows how to leap through them. Lo long, Carabin
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 1: laughs at the mingoes. Go Huron, ask your squaws the
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: color of a bear. The stranger and white maiden that
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: come into my camp together should journey on an open path.
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: And the woman that Huron left with my warriors. Uncas
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 1: made no reply. And the woman that the Mingo has
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: brought into my camp, repeated tem Nund gravely. She is mine,
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: cried Magua, shaking his hand in Triumphedruncus, Mohican, you know
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: that she is mine. My son is silent, said tem
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: nund endeavoring to read the expression of the face that
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 1: the youth turned from him in sorrow. It is so,
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: was the low answer. A short and impressive pause succeeded,
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 1: during which it was very apparent with what reluctance the
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: multitude admitted the justice of the Mingo's claim. At length,
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 1: the sage, on whom alone the decision depended, said in
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 1: a firm voice, Huron, Depart as he came, just tame none,
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 1: demanded the wily magua Or, with hands filled with the
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 1: faith of the Delawares. The wigwam of little Renard's subtle
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 1: is empty. Make him strong with his own. The aged
• 2:29:16
  Speaker 1: man mused with himself for a time, and then, bending
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 1: his head toward one of his venerable companions, he asked,
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 1: are my years open? It is true? Is this Mingo
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 1: a chief? The first in his nation? Girl? What would'st
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 1: thou a great warrior takes thee to wife? Go? Thy
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 1: race will not end better a thousand times, it should,
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 1: exclaim the horror struck Corah, than meet with such a degradation, Huron.
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: Her mind is in the tents of her father's. An
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 1: unwilling maiden makes an unhappy Wigwam. She speaks with the
• 2:29:55
  Speaker 1: tongue of her people, returned Magua, regarding his victim with
• 2:29:58
  Speaker 1: a look of bitter irony. She is of a race
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 1: of traitors, and will bargain for a bright look. Let
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 1: tame none speak the words take you the wampum and
• 2:30:09
  Speaker 1: our love nothing hence but what Magua brought hither. Then
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: depart with thine own. The great manitud forbids that a
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 1: Delaware should be unjust. Magua advanced and seized his captive
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: strongly by the arm. The Delawares fell back in silence,
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: and Cora, as if conscious that remonstrance would be useless,
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 1: prepared to submit to her fate without resistance. Hold Hold,
• 2:30:34
  Speaker 1: cried Duncan, springing forward, Huron, have mercy. Her ransom shall
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 1: make thee richer than any of thy people were ever
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 1: yet known to be. Magua is a red skin. He
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 1: wants not the beads of the pale faces, gold, silver, powder, lead.
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: All that a warrior needs shall be in thy Wigwam.
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 1: All that becomes the greatest chief. Lo subtle is very strong,
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: cried Magua, violently, shaking the hand which grasped the unresisting
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 1: arm of Cora. He has his revenge, mighty ruler of Providence,
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: exclaimed Heyward, clasping his hands together in agony. Can this
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: be suffered to you? Just tame none. I appeal for mercy.
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: The words of the Delaware are said, return the sage,
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 1: closing his eyes and dropping back into his seat, alike,
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 1: wearied with his mental and his bodily exertion. Men speak
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 1: not twice. That a chief should not misspend his time
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 1: in unsaying what has once been spoken is wise and reasonable,
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 1: said Hawkeye, motioning to Duncan to be silent. But it
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: is also prudent in every warrior to consider well before
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: he strikes his tomahawk into the head of his prisoner. Huron,
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 1: I love you not, nor can I say that any
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: Mingo has ever received much favor at my hands. It
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 1: is fair to conclude that if this war does not
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: soon end, many more of your warriors will meet me
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 1: in the woods. Put it to your judgment, then, whether
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 1: you you would prefer taking such a prisoner as that
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 1: into your encampment, or one like myself, who am a
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: man that it would greatly rejoice your nation to see
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: with naked hands, will the long rifle give his life
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 1: for the woman, demanded Magua, hesitatingly, for he had already
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: made a motion toward quitting the place with his victim. No, no,
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 1: I have not said so much as that, returned Hawkeye,
• 2:32:24
  Speaker 1: drawing back with suitable discretion, when he noted the eagerness
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: with which Magua listened to his proposal. It would be
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 1: an unequal exchange to give a warrior in the prime
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 1: of his age and usefulness for the best woman on
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 1: the frontiers. I might consent to go into winter quarters now,
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: at least six weeks afore the leaves will turn on
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: condition you will release the maiden. Magua shook his head
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 1: and made an impatient sign for the crowd to open well.
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 1: Then added the scout, with the musing air of a
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 1: man who had not half made up his mind. I
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 1: will throw kildeer into the bargain. Take the word of
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 1: an experienced hunter. The peace has not its equal between
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: the provinces. Magua still disdained to reply, continuing his efforts
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 1: to disperse the crowd, perhaps added the scout, losing his
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 1: dissembled coolness, exactly in proportion as the other manifested, an
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: indifference to the exchange. If I should condition to teach
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 1: your young men the real virtue of the weepon it
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 1: would smote the little differences in our judgments. Lou Renard
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: fiercely ordered the Delawares, who still lingered in an impenetrable
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 1: belt around him, in hopes he would listen to the
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: amicable proposal to open his path, threatening by the glance
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 1: of his eye another appeal to the infallible justice of
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 1: their prophet. What is ordered must sooner or later arrive,
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 1: continued Hawkeye, turning with a sad and humbled look to
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 1: uncas the varlet knows his advantage and will keep it.
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: God bless you, boy. You have found friends among your
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: natural kin, and I hope they will prove as true
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 1: as some you have met who had no Indian cross.
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 1: As for me, sooner or later I must die. It
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 1: is therefore fortunate there are but few to make my
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 1: death howl. After all, it is likely the Ambs would
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 1: have managed to master my scalp, so a day or
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 1: two will make no great difference in the everlasting reckoning
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: of time. God bless you, added the rugged woodsman, bending
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 1: his head aside and then instantly changing its direction again
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: with a wistful look. Toward the youth. I loved both
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 1: you and your father, Uncas, though our skins are not
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 1: altogether of a color and our gifts are somewhat different,
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 1: Tell the Sagamore, I never lost sight of him in
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: my greatest trouble. And as for you, think of me
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: sometimes when on a lucky trail, and depend on it. Boy,
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: whether there be one heaven or two, there is a
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: path in the other world by which honest men may
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 1: come together again. You'll find the rifle in the place
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: we hid it. Take it and keep it for my sake.
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: And hearkey, lad as your natural gifts don't deny you
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 1: the use of vengeance. Use it a little freely on
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: the mingoes. It may unburden griefs at my loss and
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: ease your mind. Huron, I accept your offer. Release the woman.
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: I am your prisoner. A suppressed but still distinct murmur
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: of approbation ran through the crowd at this generous proposition,
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: Even the fiercest among the Delaware warrior's manifesting pleasure at
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: the manliness of the intended sacrifice. Magua paused, and for
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: an anxious moment, it might be said, he doubted, then
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 1: casting his eyes on Cora with an expression in which
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: ferocity and admiration were strangely mingled. His purpose became fixed forever.
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: He intimated his contempt of the offer with a backward
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 1: motion of his head, and said, in a steady and
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 1: settled voice, Lo Renard's subtle is a great chief. He
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: has but one mind. Come, he added, laying his hand
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 1: too familiarly on the shoulder of his captive to urge
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: her onward. A huron is no tattler. We will go.
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: The maiden drew back in lofty, womanly reserve, and her
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: darky kindled, while the rich blood shot like the passing
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 1: brightness of the sun into her very temples. At the indignity,
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 1: I am your prisoner, and at a fitting time shall
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: be ready to follow, even to my death. But violence
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 1: is unnecessary, she coldly said, and, immediately turning to Hawkeye, added,
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 1: generous hunter for my soul, I thank you. Your offer
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 1: is vain, neither could it be accepted, But still you
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: may serve me even more than in your own noble intention.
• 2:36:30
  Speaker 1: Look at that drooping, humble child. Abandon her not until
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 1: you leave her in the habitations of civilized men. I
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 1: will not say, wringing the hard hand of the scout,
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: that her father will reward you for such as you
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 1: are above the rewards of men. But he will thank
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 1: you and bless you. And believe me, the blessing of
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 1: a just and aged man has virtue in the sight
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 1: of Heaven. Would to God I could hear one word
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 1: from his lips At this awful moment, her voice became choked,
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 1: and for an instant she was silent, then advancing a
• 2:37:03
  Speaker 1: step nigher to Duncan, who was supporting her unconscious sister.
• 2:37:07
  Speaker 1: She continued in more subdued tones, but in which feeling
• 2:37:10
  Speaker 1: in the habits of her sex maintained a fearful struggle.
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: I need not tell you to cherish the treasure you
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 1: will possess you love her, Heyward, That would conceal a
• 2:37:21
  Speaker 1: thousand faults, though she had them. She is kind, gentle, sweet, good.
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: As mortal may be, there is not a blemish in
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: mind or person at which the proudest of you all
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: would sicken. She is fair, oh how surpassingly fair. Laying
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 1: her own beautiful but less brilliant hand in melancholy affection
• 2:37:43
  Speaker 1: on the alabaster forehead of Alice, and parting the golden
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 1: hair which clustered about her brows, and yet her soul
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 1: as pure and spotless as her skin. I could say
• 2:37:53
  Speaker 1: much more, perhaps than cooler reason would approve. But I
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 1: will spare you and myself. Her voice became an audible
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 1: and her face was bent over the form of her sister.
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 1: After a long and burning kiss, she arose, and with
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: features of the hue of death, but without even a
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 1: tear in her feverish she turned away and added to
• 2:38:13
  Speaker 1: the savage with all her former elevation of manner. Now, sir,
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 1: if it be your pleasure, I will follow. I go,
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 1: cried Duncan, placing alice in the arms of an Indian girl.
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: Go Magua, Go. These Delawares have their laws which forbid
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 1: them to detain you, but I I have no such obligation. Go,
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 1: malignant monster, Why do you delay? It would be difficult
• 2:38:38
  Speaker 1: to describe the expression with which Magua listened to this
• 2:38:41
  Speaker 1: threat to follow. There was at first a fierce and
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 1: manifest display of joy, and then it was instantly subdued
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: in a look of cunning coldness. The words are open,
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 1: he was content with answering the open hand can come hold,
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 1: cried Hawkeye, seizing Duncan by the arm anding him by violence.
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: You know not the craft of the imp He would
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 1: lead you to an ambushment and your death, Huron interrupted Uncas, who,
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: submissive to the stern customs of his people, had been
• 2:39:11
  Speaker 1: an attentive and grave listener to all that past. Huron,
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: the justice of the Delawares comes from the Manitou. Look
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: at the sun. He is now in the upper branches
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 1: of the hemlock. Your path is short and open. When
• 2:39:26
  Speaker 1: he is seen above the trees, there will be men
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 1: on your trail. I hear a crow, exclaimed Magua with
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: a taunting laugh. Go he added, shaking his hand at
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 1: the crowd, which had slowly opened to admit his passage.
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 1: Where are the petticoats of the Delawares. Let them send
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 1: their arrows and their guns to the wyandots. They shall
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 1: have venison to eat, and corn to ho dogs, rabbits, thieves.
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: I spit on you. His parting gibes were listened to
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 1: in a dead boding silence, and with these fighting words
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 1: in his mouth, the triumphant Magua passed unmolested into the forest,
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 1: followed by his passive captive and protected by the inviolable
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: laws of Indian Hospitality, Chapter thirty one. Flew dot kill
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: the poise and the luggage tis expressly against the law
• 2:40:17
  Speaker 1: of arms, tis as errand a piece of knavery mark
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: you now as can be offered in the world, King
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 1: Henry the Fifth. So long as their enemy and his
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 1: victim continued in sight, the multitude remained motionless, as beings
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: charmed to the place by some power that was friendly
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 1: to the Huron. But the instant he disappeared, it became
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 1: tossed and agitated by fierce and powerful passion. Uncas maintained
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 1: his elevated stand, keeping his eyes on the form of
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 1: Cora until the colors of her dress were blended with
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 1: the foliage of the forest. When he descended, and moving
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: silently through the throng, he disappeared in that lodge from
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: which he had so recently issued. A few of the
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 1: graver and more attentive warriors, who caught the gloans of
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 1: anger that shot from the eyes of the young chief
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: in passing, followed him to the place he had selected
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: for his meditations, after which tem Nand and Alice were
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: removed and the women and children were ordered to disperse.
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 1: During the momentous hour that succeeded. The encampment resembled a
• 2:41:17
  Speaker 1: hive of troubled bees, who only awaited the appearance and
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 1: example of their leader to take some distant and momentous flight.
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 1: A young warrior at length issued from the lodge of uncas, and,
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: moving deliberately with a sort of grave march, toward a
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: dwarf pine that grew in the crevices of the rocky terrace.
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: He tore the bark from its body, and then turned
• 2:41:36
  Speaker 1: whence he came without speaking. He was soon followed by another,
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: who stripped the sapling of its branches, leaving it a
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: naked and blazed one trunk. A third colored the post
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 1: with stripes of a dark red paint, all which indications
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 1: of a hostile design in the leaders of the nation,
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 1: were received by the men without in a gloomy and
• 2:41:55
  Speaker 1: ominous silence. Finally, the Mohican himself reappeared, divested of all
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: his attire except his girdle and leggings, and with one
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 1: half of his fine features, hid under a cloud of
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 1: threatening black one. A tree which has been partially or
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 1: entirely stripped of its bark is said in the language
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 1: of the country to be blazed. The term is strictly English,
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 1: for a horse is said to be blazed when it
• 2:42:20
  Speaker 1: has a white mark. Uncas moved with a slow and
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 1: dignified tread toward the post, which he immediately commenced, encircling
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: with a measured step, not unlike an ancient dance, raising
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 1: his voice at the same time. In the wild and
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 1: irregular chant of his war song. The notes were in
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 1: the extremes of human sounds, being sometimes melancholy and exquisitely plaintive,
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 1: even rivaling the melody of birds, and then by sudden
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: and startling transitions, causing the auditors to tremble by their
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 1: depth and energy. The words were few and often repeated,
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: proceeding gradually from a sort of invocation or hymn to
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 1: the deity, to an intimation of the warrior's object, and
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 1: terminate as they commenced with an acknowledgment of his own
• 2:43:02
  Speaker 1: dependence on the great Spirit. If it were possible to
• 2:43:05
  Speaker 1: translate the comprehensive and melodious language in which he spoke,
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: the ode might read something like the following, manitou, manitou, manitou,
• 2:43:16
  Speaker 1: Thou art great, Thou art good, Thou art wise, manitou
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 1: manitou thou art just in the heavens. In the clouds,
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 1: oh I see many spots, many dark, many red in
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: the heavens. Oh I see many clouds in the woods,
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 1: in the air. Oh I hear the whoop, the long yell,
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 1: and the cry in the woods. Oh I hear the
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 1: loud whoop. Manitou, manitou, manitou. I am weak, thou art strong,
• 2:43:50
  Speaker 1: I am slow, manitou, manitou give me aid. At the
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 1: end of what might be called each verse, he made
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 1: a pause by race, using a note louder and longer
• 2:44:01
  Speaker 1: than common that was peculiarly suited to the sentiment just expressed.
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 1: The first close was solemn and intended to convey the
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 1: idea of veneration. The second descriptive, bordering on the alarming,
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 1: and the third was the well known and terrific war whoop,
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 1: which burst from the lips of the young warrior like
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 1: a combination of all the frightful sounds of battle. The
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 1: last was, like the first, humble and imploring. Three times
• 2:44:26
  Speaker 1: did he repeat this song, and as often did he
• 2:44:28
  Speaker 1: encircle the post in his dance. At the close of
• 2:44:32
  Speaker 1: the first turn. A grave and highly esteemed chief of
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 1: the Lenape followed his example, singing words of his own, however,
• 2:44:38
  Speaker 1: to music of a similar character. Warrior after warrior enlisted
• 2:44:43
  Speaker 1: in the dance, until all of any renown and authority
• 2:44:46
  Speaker 1: were numbered in its mazes. The spectacle now became wildly terrific,
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 1: the fierce looking and menacing visages of the chiefs receiving
• 2:44:54
  Speaker 1: additional power from the appalling strains in which they mingled
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 1: their guttural tones. Just then un struck his tomahawk deep
• 2:45:01
  Speaker 1: into the post and raised his voice in a shout
• 2:45:04
  Speaker 1: which might be termed his own battle cry. The act
• 2:45:07
  Speaker 1: announced that he had assumed the chief authority in the
• 2:45:10
  Speaker 1: intended expedition. It was a signal that awakened all the
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 1: slumbering passions of the nation. A hundred youths, who had
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 1: hitherto been restrained by the diffidence of their years, rushed
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 1: in a frantic body on the fancied emblem of their
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 1: enemy and severed it asunder, splinter by splinter, until nothing
• 2:45:27
  Speaker 1: remained of the trunk but its roots in the earth.
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 1: During this moment of tumult, the most ruthless deeds of
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 1: war were performed on the fragments of the tree, with
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 1: as much apparent ferocity, as if they were the living
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 1: victims of their cruelty. Some were scalped, some received the
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 1: keen and trembling acts, and others suffered by thrusts from
• 2:45:46
  Speaker 1: the fatal knife. In short, the manifestations of zeal and
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 1: fierce delight were so great and unequivocal that the expedition
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 1: was declared to be a war of the nation. The
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 1: instant Uncas had struck the blow, he moved out of
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 1: the circle and cast his eyes up to the sun,
• 2:46:02
  Speaker 1: which was just gaining the point when the truce with
• 2:46:05
  Speaker 1: Magua was to end. The fact was soon announced by
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 1: a significant gesture accompanied by a corresponding cry, and the
• 2:46:12
  Speaker 1: whole of the excited multitude abandoned their mimic warfare with
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 1: trill yells of pleasure, to prepare for the more hazardous
• 2:46:18
  Speaker 1: experiment of the reality. The whole face of the encampment
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 1: was instantly changed. The warriors, who were already armed and painted,
• 2:46:27
  Speaker 1: became as still as if they were incapable of any
• 2:46:30
  Speaker 1: uncommon burst of emotion. On the other hand, the women
• 2:46:34
  Speaker 1: broke out of the lodges with the songs of joy
• 2:46:36
  Speaker 1: and those of lamentation, so strangely mixed, that it might
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 1: have been difficult to have said which passion preponderated. None, however,
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 1: was idle. Some bore their choicest articles, others their young,
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 1: and some their aged and infirm, into the forest, which
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 1: spread itself like a verdant carpet of bright green against
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 1: the side of the mountain. Thither tam Nund also retired
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 1: with calmcomp closure, after a short and touching interview with Uncas,
• 2:47:03
  Speaker 1: from whom the sage separated with the reluctance that a
• 2:47:05
  Speaker 1: parent would quit a long lost and just recovered child.
• 2:47:09
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, Duncan saw Alice to a place of safety,
• 2:47:12
  Speaker 1: and then sought the scout, with a countenance that denoted
• 2:47:15
  Speaker 1: how eagerly he also panted for the approaching contest. But
• 2:47:19
  Speaker 1: Hawkeye was too much accustomed to the war song and
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 1: the enlistments of the natives to betray any interest in
• 2:47:25
  Speaker 1: the passing scene. He merely cast an occasional look at
• 2:47:29
  Speaker 1: the number and quality of the warriors, from time to
• 2:47:32
  Speaker 1: time signified their readiness to accompany Uncas to the field.
• 2:47:36
  Speaker 1: In this particular, he was soon satisfied, for as has
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 1: been already seen, the power of the young chief quickly
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: embraced every fighting man in the nation. After this material
• 2:47:47
  Speaker 1: point was so satisfactorily decided, he despatched an Indian boy
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 1: in quest of Kildeer and the rifle of Uncas to
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 1: the place where they had deposited their weapons on approaching
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 1: the camp of the Delawares, a measure of double policy,
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 1: in as much as it protected the arms from their
• 2:48:01
  Speaker 1: own fate if detained as prisoners, and gave them the
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 1: advantage of appearing among the strangers rather as sufferers than
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: as men provided with means of defense and subsistence. In
• 2:48:13
  Speaker 1: selecting another to perform the office of reclaiming his highly
• 2:48:16
  Speaker 1: prized rifle, the scout had lost sight of none of
• 2:48:18
  Speaker 1: his habitual caution. He knew that Magua had not come unattended,
• 2:48:23
  Speaker 1: and he also knew that Huron spies watched the movements
• 2:48:26
  Speaker 1: of their new enemies along the whole boundary of the woods.
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 1: It would therefore have been fatal to himself to have
• 2:48:33
  Speaker 1: attempted the experiment. A warrior would have fared no better,
• 2:48:36
  Speaker 1: but the danger of a boy would not be likely
• 2:48:38
  Speaker 1: to commence until after his object was discovered. When Heyward
• 2:48:42
  Speaker 1: joined him, the scout was coolly awaiting the result of
• 2:48:45
  Speaker 1: this experiment, The boy, who had been well instructed and
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 1: was sufficiently crafty, proceeded with a bosom that was swelling
• 2:48:53
  Speaker 1: with the pride of such a confidence and all the
• 2:48:55
  Speaker 1: hopes of young ambition, carelessly across the clearing to the wood,
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 1: which he entered at a point at some little distance
• 2:49:01
  Speaker 1: from the place where the guns were secreted. The instant, however,
• 2:49:05
  Speaker 1: he was concealed by the foliage of the bushes. His
• 2:49:08
  Speaker 1: dusky form was to be seen gliding like that of
• 2:49:11
  Speaker 1: a serpent toward the desired treasure. He was successful, and
• 2:49:15
  Speaker 1: in another moment he appeared flying across the narrow opening
• 2:49:18
  Speaker 1: that skirted the base of the terrace on which the
• 2:49:20
  Speaker 1: village stood, with the velocity of an arrow, and bearing
• 2:49:23
  Speaker 1: a prize in each hand. He had actually gained the
• 2:49:27
  Speaker 1: crags and was leaping up their sides with incredible activity.
• 2:49:31
  Speaker 1: When a shot from the woods showed how accurate had
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 1: been the judgment of the scout, the boy answered it
• 2:49:36
  Speaker 1: with a feeble but contemptuous shout, and immediately a second
• 2:49:39
  Speaker 1: bullet was sent after him from another part of the cover.
• 2:49:43
  Speaker 1: At the next instant, he appeared on the level above
• 2:49:45
  Speaker 1: elevating his guns in triumph, while he moved with the
• 2:49:48
  Speaker 1: air of a conqueror toward the renowned hunter who had
• 2:49:51
  Speaker 1: honored him by so glorious a commission. Notwithstanding the lively
• 2:49:55
  Speaker 1: interest Hawkeye had taken in the fate of his messenger,
• 2:49:58
  Speaker 1: he received Kildeer with a satisfaction that momentarily drove all
• 2:50:02
  Speaker 1: other recollections from his mind. After examining the piece with
• 2:50:07
  Speaker 1: an intelligent eye, and opening and shutting the pan some
• 2:50:10
  Speaker 1: ten or fifteen times, and trying sundry other equally important
• 2:50:13
  Speaker 1: experiments on the lock, he turned to the boy and demanded,
• 2:50:16
  Speaker 1: with great manifestations of kindness, if he was hurt. The
• 2:50:20
  Speaker 1: urchin looked proudly up in his face, but made no reply. Ah,
• 2:50:26
  Speaker 1: I see, lad, the knaves have barked your arm, added
• 2:50:29
  Speaker 1: the scout, taking up the limb of the patients suffer,
• 2:50:32
  Speaker 1: across which a deep flesh wound had been made by
• 2:50:34
  Speaker 1: one of the bullets. But a little bruised alder will
• 2:50:37
  Speaker 1: act like a charm. In the meantime, I will wrap
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 1: it in a badge of wampum. You have commenced the
• 2:50:43
  Speaker 1: business of a warrior early, my brave boy, and are
• 2:50:47
  Speaker 1: likely to bear a plenty of honorable scars to your grave.
• 2:50:50
  Speaker 1: I know many young men that have taken scalps who
• 2:50:53
  Speaker 1: cannot show such a mark as this. Go. Having bound
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 1: up the arm, you will be a chief the glad departed,
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 1: prouder of his flowing blood than the vainest courtier could
• 2:51:03
  Speaker 1: be of his blushing ribbon, and stalked among the fellows
• 2:51:06
  Speaker 1: of his age, an object of general admiration and envy.
• 2:51:10
  Speaker 1: But in a moment of so many serious and important duties,
• 2:51:14
  Speaker 1: this single act of juvenile fortitude did not attract the
• 2:51:17
  Speaker 1: general notice and commendation it would have received under milder auspices.
• 2:51:21
  Speaker 1: It had, however, served to apprize the Delawares of the
• 2:51:25
  Speaker 1: position and the intentions of their enemies. Accordingly, a party
• 2:51:29
  Speaker 1: of adventurers, better suited to the task than the weak,
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 1: though spirited boy was ordered to dislodge the skulkers. The
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 1: duty was soon performed, for most of the hurons were
• 2:51:39
  Speaker 1: tired of themselves when they found they had been discovered.
• 2:51:43
  Speaker 1: The delawares followed to a sufficient distance from their own encampment,
• 2:51:46
  Speaker 1: and then halted for orders. Apprehensive of being led into
• 2:51:49
  Speaker 1: an ambush, as both parties secreted themselves. The woods were
• 2:51:54
  Speaker 1: again as still and quiet as a mild summer morning
• 2:51:57
  Speaker 1: in deep solitude could render them. The calm but still
• 2:52:00
  Speaker 1: impatient Uncas now collected his chiefs and divided his power.
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 1: He presented Hawkeye as a warrior often tried and always
• 2:52:09
  Speaker 1: found deserving of confidence. When he found his friend met
• 2:52:12
  Speaker 1: with a favorable reception, he bestowed on him the command
• 2:52:15
  Speaker 1: of twenty men like himself, active, skillful, and resolute. He
• 2:52:21
  Speaker 1: gave the delawares to understand the rank of Heyward among
• 2:52:23
  Speaker 1: the troops of the Yengeese, and then tendered to him
• 2:52:26
  Speaker 1: a trust of equal authority. But Duncan declined the charge,
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 1: professing his readiness to serve as a volunteer by the
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: side of the scout. After this disposition, the young Mohican
• 2:52:37
  Speaker 1: appointed various native chiefs to fill the different situations of
• 2:52:40
  Speaker 1: responsibility and the time pressing. He gave forth the word
• 2:52:44
  Speaker 1: to march. He was cheerfully but silently obeyed by more
• 2:52:48
  Speaker 1: than two hundred men. Their entrance into the forest was
• 2:52:52
  Speaker 1: perfectly unmolested, nor did they encounter any living objects that
• 2:52:56
  Speaker 1: could either give the alarm or furnish the intelligence they needed.
• 2:52:59
  Speaker 1: Until they came upon the lairs of their own scouts.
• 2:53:02
  Speaker 1: Here a halt was ordered, and the chiefs were assembled
• 2:53:05
  Speaker 1: to hold a whispering counsel. At this meeting, Diver's plans
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: of operation were suggested, though none of a character to
• 2:53:12
  Speaker 1: meet the wishes of their ardent leader. Had Uncas followed
• 2:53:16
  Speaker 1: the promptings of his own inclinations, he would have led
• 2:53:19
  Speaker 1: his followers to the charge without a moment's delay, and
• 2:53:21
  Speaker 1: put the conflict to the hazard of an instant issue.
• 2:53:24
  Speaker 1: But such a course would have been in opposition to
• 2:53:26
  Speaker 1: all the received practices and opinions of his countrymen. He
• 2:53:30
  Speaker 1: was therefore fain to adopt a caution that, in the
• 2:53:33
  Speaker 1: present temper of his mind he execrated, and to listen
• 2:53:36
  Speaker 1: to advice at which his fiery spirit chafed. Under the
• 2:53:39
  Speaker 1: vivid recollection of Cora's danger. In Magua's insolence, after an
• 2:53:44
  Speaker 1: unsatisfactory conference of many minutes, a solitary individual was seen
• 2:53:48
  Speaker 1: advancing from the side of the enemy with such apparent
• 2:53:51
  Speaker 1: haste as to induce the belief he might be a
• 2:53:53
  Speaker 1: messenger charged with pacific overtures. When within a hundred yards, however,
• 2:53:58
  Speaker 1: of the cover behind which the delaware council had assembled.
• 2:54:01
  Speaker 1: The stranger hesitated, appeared uncertain what course to take, and
• 2:54:05
  Speaker 1: finally halted. All eyes were turned now on Uncas as
• 2:54:09
  Speaker 1: if seeking directions how to proceed Hawkeye, said the young
• 2:54:14
  Speaker 1: chief in a low voice. He must never speak to
• 2:54:16
  Speaker 1: the Hurons again. His time has come, said the laconic scout,
• 2:54:21
  Speaker 1: thrusting the long barrel of his rifle through the leaves
• 2:54:24
  Speaker 1: and taking his deliberate and fatal aim. But instead of
• 2:54:28
  Speaker 1: pulling the trigger, he lowered the muzzle again and indulged
• 2:54:31
  Speaker 1: himself in a fit of his peculiar mirth. I took
• 2:54:35
  Speaker 1: the inn for a mingo, as I'm a miserable sinner,
• 2:54:38
  Speaker 1: he said. But when my eye ranged along his ribs
• 2:54:41
  Speaker 1: for a place to get the bullet in, would you
• 2:54:43
  Speaker 1: think it uncas, I saw the musicianer's blower. And so,
• 2:54:47
  Speaker 1: after all, it is the man they call Gamut, whose
• 2:54:50
  Speaker 1: death can profit no one, and whose life, if this
• 2:54:53
  Speaker 1: tongue can do anything but sing, may be made serviceable
• 2:54:56
  Speaker 1: to our own ends. If sounds have not lost their verse,
• 2:55:00
  Speaker 1: I'll soon have a discourse with the honest fellow, and
• 2:55:03
  Speaker 1: that in a voice he'll find more agreeable than the
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: speech of kildeer dot so, saying, Hawkeye laid aside his
• 2:55:10
  Speaker 1: rifle and crawling through the bushes until within hearing of David,
• 2:55:14
  Speaker 1: he attempted to repeat the musical effort which had conducted
• 2:55:17
  Speaker 1: himself with so much safety in a claw through the
• 2:55:20
  Speaker 1: Huron encampment. The exquisite organs of Gamut could not readily
• 2:55:24
  Speaker 1: be deceived, and, to say the truth, it would have
• 2:55:27
  Speaker 1: been difficult for any other than Hawkeye to produce a
• 2:55:30
  Speaker 1: similar noise. And consequently, having once before heard the sounds,
• 2:55:34
  Speaker 1: he now knew whence they proceeded. The poor fellow appeared
• 2:55:38
  Speaker 1: relieved from a state of great embarrassment for pursuing the
• 2:55:42
  Speaker 1: direction of the voice, a task that to him was
• 2:55:44
  Speaker 1: not much less arduous that it would have been to
• 2:55:46
  Speaker 1: have gone up in the face of a battery. He
• 2:55:48
  Speaker 1: soon discovered the hidden songster. I wonder what the Hurons
• 2:55:52
  Speaker 1: will think of that, said the scout, laughing, as he
• 2:55:56
  Speaker 1: took his companion by the arm and urged him toward
• 2:55:59
  Speaker 1: the rear. If the knaves lie within earshot, they will
• 2:56:02
  Speaker 1: say there are two noncompulsors instead of one. But here
• 2:56:06
  Speaker 1: we are safe, he added, pointing to Uncas and his associates.
• 2:56:11
  Speaker 1: Now give us the history of the Mingo inventions in
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 1: natural English, and without any ups and downs of voice.
• 2:56:18
  Speaker 1: David gazed about him at the fierce and wild looking
• 2:56:21
  Speaker 1: chiefs in mute wonder, but assured by the presence of
• 2:56:24
  Speaker 1: faces that he knew, he soon rallied his faculties so
• 2:56:27
  Speaker 1: far as to make an intelligent reply. The Heathen are
• 2:56:31
  Speaker 1: abroad in goodly numbers, said David, and I fear with
• 2:56:35
  Speaker 1: evil intent. There has been much howling in ungodly revelry,
• 2:56:39
  Speaker 1: together with such sounds as it is profanity to utter
• 2:56:42
  Speaker 1: in their habitations, within the past hour, So much so
• 2:56:45
  Speaker 1: in truth, that I have fled to the delawares in
• 2:56:48
  Speaker 1: search of peace. Your ears might not have profited much
• 2:56:52
  Speaker 1: by the exchange, had you been quicker of foot, returned
• 2:56:55
  Speaker 1: the scout a little dryly. But let that be as
• 2:56:58
  Speaker 1: it may. Where are the Hurons? They lie hid in
• 2:57:01
  Speaker 1: the forest between this spot and their village, in such
• 2:57:04
  Speaker 1: force that prudence would teach you instantly to return. Uncas
• 2:57:08
  Speaker 1: cast a glance along the range of trees which concealed
• 2:57:11
  Speaker 1: his own band, and mentioned the name of magua Is
• 2:57:15
  Speaker 1: among them. He brought in the maiden that had sojourned
• 2:57:18
  Speaker 1: with the Delawares, and leaving her in the cave, has
• 2:57:21
  Speaker 1: put himself like a raging wolf at the head of
• 2:57:24
  Speaker 1: his savages. I know not what has troubled his spirits
• 2:57:28
  Speaker 1: so greatly he has left her. You say in the cave, interrupted, Heyward,
• 2:57:34
  Speaker 1: tis well that we know its situation. May not something
• 2:57:37
  Speaker 1: be done for her instant relief? Uncas looked earnestly at
• 2:57:41
  Speaker 1: the scout before he asked, what says, Hawkeye, Give me
• 2:57:45
  Speaker 1: twenty rifles, and I will turn to the right along
• 2:57:48
  Speaker 1: the stream, and, passing by the huts of the beaver,
• 2:57:51
  Speaker 1: will join the Sagamore and the colonel. You shall then
• 2:57:55
  Speaker 1: hear the whoop from that quarter. With this wind, one
• 2:57:57
  Speaker 1: may easily send it a mile. Then, Uncas, do you
• 2:58:01
  Speaker 1: drive in the front. When they come within range of
• 2:58:04
  Speaker 1: our pieces, we will give them a blow that I
• 2:58:06
  Speaker 1: pledge the good name of an old frontiersman, shall make
• 2:58:09
  Speaker 1: their line bend like an ashen bow, after which we
• 2:58:13
  Speaker 1: will carry the village and take the woman from the cave.
• 2:58:16
  Speaker 1: When the affair may be finished with the tribe according
• 2:58:19
  Speaker 1: to a white man's battle by a blow and a victory,
• 2:58:22
  Speaker 1: or in the Indian fashion, with dodge and cover. There
• 2:58:26
  Speaker 1: may be no great learning major in this plan, but
• 2:58:29
  Speaker 1: with courage and patience it can all be done. I
• 2:58:32
  Speaker 1: like it very much, cried Duncan, who saw that the
• 2:58:35
  Speaker 1: release of Cora was the primary object in the mind
• 2:58:38
  Speaker 1: of the scout. I like it much. Let it be
• 2:58:41
  Speaker 1: instantly attempted. After a short conference, the plan was matured
• 2:58:46
  Speaker 1: and rendered more intelligible to the several parties. The different
• 2:58:49
  Speaker 1: signals were appointed, and the chiefs separated, each to his
• 2:58:52
  Speaker 1: allotted station Chapter thirty two. But plagues shall spread and
• 2:58:58
  Speaker 1: funeral fires increase till the great King without a ransom,
• 2:59:02
  Speaker 1: paid to her own crisis, and the black eyed maid pope.
• 2:59:07
  Speaker 1: During the time Uncas was making this disposition of his forces,
• 2:59:11
  Speaker 1: the woods were as still, and, with the exception of
• 2:59:13
  Speaker 1: those who had met in council, apparently as much untenanted
• 2:59:17
  Speaker 1: as when they came fresh from the hands of their
• 2:59:19
  Speaker 1: almighty creator. The eye could range in every direction through
• 2:59:23
  Speaker 1: the long and shadowed vistas of the trees, but nowhere
• 2:59:26
  Speaker 1: was any object to be seen that did not properly
• 2:59:28
  Speaker 1: belong to the peaceful and slumbering scenery. Here and there
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 1: a bird was heard fluttering among the branches of the beeches,
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 1: and occasionally a squirrel dropped a nut, drawing the startled
• 2:59:39
  Speaker 1: looks of the party for a moment to the place.
• 2:59:41
  Speaker 1: But the instant the casual interruption ceased, the passing air
• 2:59:44
  Speaker 1: was heard murmuring above their heads along that verdant and
• 2:59:47
  Speaker 1: undulating surface of forest, which spread itself unbroken unless by
• 2:59:53
  Speaker 1: stream or lake. Over such a vast region of country.
• 2:59:56
  Speaker 1: Across the tract of wilderness which lay between the Delawares
• 3:00:00
  Speaker 1: the village of their enemies, it seemed as if the
• 3:00:02
  Speaker 1: foot of man had never trodden, so breathing and deep
• 3:00:05
  Speaker 1: was the silence in which it lay. But Hawkeye, whose
• 3:00:09
  Speaker 1: duty led him foremost in the adventure, knew the character
• 3:00:12
  Speaker 1: of those with whom he was about to contend too
• 3:00:14
  Speaker 1: well to trust the treacherous quiet. When he saw his
• 3:00:17
  Speaker 1: little band collected, the scout threw kildeer into the hollow
• 3:00:21
  Speaker 1: of his arm, and, making a silent signal that he
• 3:00:23
  Speaker 1: would be followed, he led them many rods toward the rear,
• 3:00:26
  Speaker 1: into the bed of a little brook which they had
• 3:00:28
  Speaker 1: crossed in advancing. Here, he halted, and, after waiting for
• 3:00:32
  Speaker 1: the whole of his grave and attentive warriors to close
• 3:00:35
  Speaker 1: about him. He spoke in delaware, demanding, do any of
• 3:00:38
  Speaker 1: my young men know whither this run will lead us?
• 3:00:41
  Speaker 1: A delaware stretched forth a hand with the two fingers separated,
• 3:00:45
  Speaker 1: and indicating the manner in which they were joined at
• 3:00:47
  Speaker 1: the root, he answered, before the sun could go his
• 3:00:50
  Speaker 1: own length, the little water will be in the big Then,
• 3:00:54
  Speaker 1: he added, pointing in the direction of the place he mentioned.
• 3:00:57
  Speaker 1: The two make enough for the beavers. I thought as much,
• 3:01:01
  Speaker 1: returned the scout, glancing his eye upward at the opening
• 3:01:04
  Speaker 1: in the tree tops from the course it takes and
• 3:01:06
  Speaker 1: the bearings of the mountains. Men, we will keep within
• 3:01:10
  Speaker 1: the cover of its banks till we scent the hurons.
• 3:01:14
  Speaker 1: His companions gave the usual brief exclamation of assent, but,
• 3:01:17
  Speaker 1: perceiving that their leader was about to lead the way
• 3:01:20
  Speaker 1: in person, one or two made signs that all was
• 3:01:22
  Speaker 1: not as it should be. Hawkeye, who comprehended their meaning glances,
• 3:01:27
  Speaker 1: turned and perceived that his party had been followed thus
• 3:01:30
  Speaker 1: far by the singing master. Do you know, friend, asked
• 3:01:34
  Speaker 1: the scout, gravely, and perhaps with a little of the
• 3:01:37
  Speaker 1: pride of conscious deserving in his manner, that this is
• 3:01:39
  Speaker 1: a band of rangers, chosen for the most desperate service,
• 3:01:42
  Speaker 1: and put under the command of one who, though another
• 3:01:45
  Speaker 1: might say it with a better face, will not be
• 3:01:47
  Speaker 1: apt to leave them idle. It may not be five,
• 3:01:51
  Speaker 1: it cannot be thirty minutes before we tread on the
• 3:01:54
  Speaker 1: body of a Huron, living or dead. Though not admonished
• 3:01:58
  Speaker 1: of your intentions, in words, return earned David, whose face
• 3:02:01
  Speaker 1: was a little flushed, and whose ordinarily quiet and unmeaning
• 3:02:04
  Speaker 1: eyes glimmered with an expression of unusual fire. Your men
• 3:02:08
  Speaker 1: have reminded me of the children of Jacob going out
• 3:02:11
  Speaker 1: to battle against the Shechemites, for wickedly aspiring to wedlock
• 3:02:15
  Speaker 1: with a woman of a race that was favored of
• 3:02:16
  Speaker 1: the Lord. Now I have journeyed far, and sojourned much
• 3:02:21
  Speaker 1: in good and evil with the maiden ye seek. And
• 3:02:24
  Speaker 1: though not a man of war, with my loins girded
• 3:02:26
  Speaker 1: and my sword sharpened, yet would I gladly strike a
• 3:02:29
  Speaker 1: blow in her behalf. The scout hesitated, as if weighing
• 3:02:33
  Speaker 1: the chances of such a strange enlistment in his mind,
• 3:02:35
  Speaker 1: before he answered, you know not the use of any
• 3:02:38
  Speaker 1: weepon You carry no rifle, and believe me, what the
• 3:02:42
  Speaker 1: mingoes take, they will freely give again, though not a
• 3:02:46
  Speaker 1: vaunting and bloodily disposed Goliath, returned David, drawing a sling
• 3:02:50
  Speaker 1: from beneath his party colored and uncouth attire. I have
• 3:02:53
  Speaker 1: not forgotten the example of the Jewish boy. With this
• 3:02:56
  Speaker 1: ancient instrument of war. Have I practiced much in my
• 3:02:59
  Speaker 1: youth and peradventure. The skill has not entirely departed from me,
• 3:03:04
  Speaker 1: I said Hawkeye, considering the deer skin thong an apron
• 3:03:08
  Speaker 1: with a cold and discouraging eye. The thing might do
• 3:03:11
  Speaker 1: its work among arrows or even knives, but these mangue
• 3:03:15
  Speaker 1: have been furnished by the frenchers with a good grooved barrel.
• 3:03:17
  Speaker 1: A man, however, it seems to be your gift to
• 3:03:21
  Speaker 1: go unharmed amid fire. And as you have hitherto been favored, Major,
• 3:03:25
  Speaker 1: you have left your rifle at a cock a single
• 3:03:28
  Speaker 1: shot before the time would be just twenty scalps lost
• 3:03:30
  Speaker 1: in no purpose. Singer, you can follow. We may find
• 3:03:34
  Speaker 1: yous for you in the shoutings. I thank you, friend,
• 3:03:38
  Speaker 1: returned David, supplying himself, like his royal namesake, from among
• 3:03:42
  Speaker 1: the pebbles of the brook. Though not given to the
• 3:03:44
  Speaker 1: desire to kill. Had you sent me away, my spirit
• 3:03:47
  Speaker 1: would have been troubled, remember, added the scout, tapping his
• 3:03:51
  Speaker 1: own head significantly on that spot where Gammut was yet sore.
• 3:03:55
  Speaker 1: We come to fight, and not to music, kate until
• 3:03:58
  Speaker 1: the general whoop is given, Nothing speaks but the rifle.
• 3:04:02
  Speaker 1: David nodded as much to signify his acquiescence with the terms,
• 3:04:06
  Speaker 1: and then Hawkeye, casting another observant glance over his followers,
• 3:04:10
  Speaker 1: made the signal to proceed. Their route lay for the
• 3:04:14
  Speaker 1: distance of a mile along the bed of the water course.
• 3:04:18
  Speaker 1: Though protected from any great danger of observation by the
• 3:04:21
  Speaker 1: precipitous banks and the thick shrubbery which skirted the stream,
• 3:04:24
  Speaker 1: no precaution known to an Indian attack was neglected. A
• 3:04:28
  Speaker 1: warrior rather crawled than walked on each flank so as
• 3:04:31
  Speaker 1: to catch occasional glimpses into the forest, and every few
• 3:04:34
  Speaker 1: minutes the band came to a halt and listened for
• 3:04:37
  Speaker 1: hostile sounds with an acuteness of organs that would be
• 3:04:40
  Speaker 1: scarcely conceivable to a man in a less natural state.
• 3:04:44
  Speaker 1: Their march was, however, unmolested, and they reached the point
• 3:04:47
  Speaker 1: where the lesser stream was lost in the greater without
• 3:04:50
  Speaker 1: the smallest evidence that their progress had been noted. Here
• 3:04:54
  Speaker 1: the scout again halted to consult the signs of the forest.
• 3:04:58
  Speaker 1: We are likely to have a good day for a fight,
• 3:05:00
  Speaker 1: he said in English, addressing Heyward, and glancing his eyes
• 3:05:04
  Speaker 1: upward at the clouds which began to move in broad
• 3:05:07
  Speaker 1: sheets across the firmament. A bright sun and a glittering
• 3:05:10
  Speaker 1: barrel are no friends to true sight. Everything is favorable.
• 3:05:14
  Speaker 1: They have the wind, which will bring down their noises
• 3:05:17
  Speaker 1: and their smoke to no little matter in itself, whereas
• 3:05:21
  Speaker 1: with us it will be first a shot and then
• 3:05:23
  Speaker 1: a clear view. But here is an end to our cover.
• 3:05:27
  Speaker 1: The beavers have had the range of this stream for
• 3:05:29
  Speaker 1: hundreds of years, and what between their food and their
• 3:05:31
  Speaker 1: dams there is, as you see, many a girdled stub,
• 3:05:35
  Speaker 1: but few living trees. Hawkeye had, in truth, in these
• 3:05:40
  Speaker 1: few words, given no bad description of the prospect that
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 1: now lay in their front. The brook was irregular in
• 3:05:46
  Speaker 1: its width, sometimes shooting through narrow fissures in the rocks,
• 3:05:50
  Speaker 1: and that others spreading over acres of bottom land, forming
• 3:05:53
  Speaker 1: little areas that might be termed ponds. Everywhere along its
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 1: bands were the moldering relics of dead trees in all
• 3:06:00
  Speaker 1: the stages of decay, from those that groaned on their
• 3:06:03
  Speaker 1: tottering trunks to such as had recently been robbed of
• 3:06:05
  Speaker 1: those rugged coats that so mysteriously contained their principle of life.
• 3:06:10
  Speaker 1: A few long, low and moss covered piles were scattered
• 3:06:13
  Speaker 1: among them, like the memorials of a former and long
• 3:06:16
  Speaker 1: departed generation. All these minute particulars were noted by the
• 3:06:20
  Speaker 1: scout with a gravity and interest that they probably had
• 3:06:23
  Speaker 1: never before attracted. He knew that the Huron encampment lay
• 3:06:27
  Speaker 1: a short half mile up the brook, and with the
• 3:06:30
  Speaker 1: characteristic anxiety of one who dreaded a hidden danger, he
• 3:06:33
  Speaker 1: was greatly troubled at not finding the smallest trace of
• 3:06:36
  Speaker 1: the presence of his enemy. Once or twice, he felt
• 3:06:39
  Speaker 1: induced to give the order for a rush and to
• 3:06:42
  Speaker 1: attempt the village by surprise, But his experience quickly admonished
• 3:06:45
  Speaker 1: him of the danger of so useless an experiment. Then
• 3:06:49
  Speaker 1: he listened intently and with painful uncertainty, for the sounds
• 3:06:53
  Speaker 1: of hostility in a quarter where uncas was left. But
• 3:06:55
  Speaker 1: nothing was audible except the sighing of the wind that
• 3:06:58
  Speaker 1: began to sweep over the bosom of the forest, and
• 3:07:00
  Speaker 1: gusts which threatened a tempest at length. Yielding rather to
• 3:07:05
  Speaker 1: his unusual impatience than taking counsel from his knowledge, he
• 3:07:08
  Speaker 1: determined to bring matters to an issue by unmasking his
• 3:07:11
  Speaker 1: force and proceeding cautiously but steadily up the stream. The
• 3:07:16
  Speaker 1: scout had stood while making his observations, sheltered by a brake,
• 3:07:21
  Speaker 1: and his companion still lay in the bed of the
• 3:07:23
  Speaker 1: ravine through which the smaller stream debouched. But on hearing
• 3:07:26
  Speaker 1: his low, though intelligible signal, the whole party stole up
• 3:07:30
  Speaker 1: the bank like so many dark specters, and silently arranged
• 3:07:33
  Speaker 1: themselves around him. Pointing in the direction he wished to proceed,
• 3:07:38
  Speaker 1: Hawkeye advanced the band, breaking off in single files, and
• 3:07:41
  Speaker 1: following so accurately in his footsteps as to leave it
• 3:07:45
  Speaker 1: if we except Heyward and David, the trail of but
• 3:07:48
  Speaker 1: a single man. The party was, however, scarcely uncovered, before
• 3:07:53
  Speaker 1: a volley from a dozen rifles was heard in their rear,
• 3:07:55
  Speaker 1: and a delaware, leaping high into the air like a
• 3:07:58
  Speaker 1: wounded deer, fell of his whole length dead. Ah I
• 3:08:02
  Speaker 1: feared some deviltry like this exclaimed the scout in English,
• 3:08:07
  Speaker 1: adding with the quickness of thought in his adopted tongue
• 3:08:11
  Speaker 1: to cover men and charge. The band dispersed at the word,
• 3:08:15
  Speaker 1: and before Heyward had well recovered from his surprise, he
• 3:08:19
  Speaker 1: found himself standing alone with dated. Luckily, the Hurons had
• 3:08:23
  Speaker 1: already fallen back, and he was safe from their fire.
• 3:08:27
  Speaker 1: But this state of things was evidently to be of
• 3:08:29
  Speaker 1: short continuance, for the scout set the example of pressing
• 3:08:32
  Speaker 1: on their retreat by discharging his rifle and darting from
• 3:08:35
  Speaker 1: tree to tree as his enemy slowly yielded ground. It
• 3:08:39
  Speaker 1: would seem that the assault had been made by a
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 1: very small party of the Hurons, which however, continued to
• 3:08:45
  Speaker 1: increase in numbers as it retired on its friends, until
• 3:08:48
  Speaker 1: the return fire was very nearly, if not quite, equal
• 3:08:51
  Speaker 1: to that maintained by the advancing Delawares. Heyward threw himself
• 3:08:56
  Speaker 1: among the combatants, and, imitating the necessary caution of his companions,
• 3:09:00
  Speaker 1: he made quick discharges with his own rifle. The contest
• 3:09:04
  Speaker 1: now grew warm and stationary. Few were injured, as both
• 3:09:09
  Speaker 1: parties kept their bodies as much protected as possible by
• 3:09:12
  Speaker 1: the trees, never indeed exposing any part of their persons
• 3:09:16
  Speaker 1: except in the act of taking aim, But the chances
• 3:09:19
  Speaker 1: were gradually growing unfavorable to Hawkeye and his band. The
• 3:09:23
  Speaker 1: quick sighted scout perceived his danger without knowing how to
• 3:09:26
  Speaker 1: remedy it. He saw it was more dangerous to retreat
• 3:09:30
  Speaker 1: than to maintain his ground, while he found his enemy
• 3:09:33
  Speaker 1: throwing out men on his flank, which rendered the task
• 3:09:36
  Speaker 1: of keeping themselves covered so very difficult. To the delawares
• 3:09:39
  Speaker 1: As nearly to silence their fire. At this embarrassing moment,
• 3:09:43
  Speaker 1: when they began to think the whole of the hostile
• 3:09:45
  Speaker 1: tribe was gradually encircling them, they heard the yell of
• 3:09:48
  Speaker 1: combatants and the rattling of arms echoing under the arches
• 3:09:51
  Speaker 1: of the wood at the place where Uncas was posted,
• 3:09:54
  Speaker 1: a bottom which, in a manner lay beneath the ground
• 3:09:56
  Speaker 1: on which Hawkeye and his party were contending the effects
• 3:10:00
  Speaker 1: of this attack were instantaneous, and to the scout and
• 3:10:03
  Speaker 1: his friends greatly relieving, it would seem that while his
• 3:10:07
  Speaker 1: own surprise had been anticipated and had consequently failed, the enemy,
• 3:10:12
  Speaker 1: in their turn, having been deceived in its object and
• 3:10:14
  Speaker 1: in his numbers, had left too small a force to
• 3:10:18
  Speaker 1: resist the impetuous onset of the young Mohican. This fact
• 3:10:22
  Speaker 1: was doubly apparent by the rapid manner in which the
• 3:10:25
  Speaker 1: battle in the forest rolled upward toward the village, and
• 3:10:28
  Speaker 1: by an instant falling off in the number of their
• 3:10:30
  Speaker 1: assailants who rushed to assist in maintaining the front, And
• 3:10:33
  Speaker 1: as it now proved to be the principal point of defense.
• 3:10:38
  Speaker 1: Animating his followers by his voice and his own example,
• 3:10:42
  Speaker 1: Hawkeye then gave the word to bear down upon their foes.
• 3:10:46
  Speaker 1: The charge, in that rude species of warfare, consisted merely
• 3:10:50
  Speaker 1: in pushing from cover to cover nigher to the enemy,
• 3:10:53
  Speaker 1: and in this maneuver he was instantly and successfully obeyed.
• 3:10:57
  Speaker 1: The Hurons were compelled to withdraw, and the scene of
• 3:10:59
  Speaker 1: the contest rapidly changed from the more open ground on
• 3:11:03
  Speaker 1: which it had commenced to a spot where the assailed
• 3:11:05
  Speaker 1: found a thicket to rest upon. Here the struggle was protracted, arduous,
• 3:11:10
  Speaker 1: and seemingly of doubtful issue. The Delawares, though none of them, fell,
• 3:11:14
  Speaker 1: beginning to bleed freely. In consequence of the disadvantage at
• 3:11:17
  Speaker 1: which they were held in this crisis, Hawkeye found means
• 3:11:22
  Speaker 1: to get behind the same tree as that which served
• 3:11:24
  Speaker 1: for a cover to Heyward, most of his own combatants
• 3:11:27
  Speaker 1: being within call a little on his right, where they
• 3:11:29
  Speaker 1: maintained rapid though fruitless discharges on their sheltered enemies. You
• 3:11:35
  Speaker 1: are a young man, major, said the scout, dropping the
• 3:11:38
  Speaker 1: butt of kildeer to the earth and leaning on the barrel,
• 3:11:41
  Speaker 1: a little fatigued with his previous industry, And it may
• 3:11:44
  Speaker 1: be your gift to lead armies at some future day,
• 3:11:47
  Speaker 1: a g in these imps, the mingoes, you may here
• 3:11:51
  Speaker 1: see the philosophy of an Indian fight. It consists mainly
• 3:11:55
  Speaker 1: in ready hand, a quick eye, and a good cover. Now,
• 3:11:59
  Speaker 1: if you had a come any of the royal Americans here,
• 3:12:01
  Speaker 1: in what manner would you set them to work? In
• 3:12:03
  Speaker 1: this business? The bayonet would make a road. Ay, there
• 3:12:08
  Speaker 1: is white reason in what you say. But a man
• 3:12:10
  Speaker 1: must ask himself in this wilderness how many lives he
• 3:12:14
  Speaker 1: can spare? No horse, one, continued the scout, shaking his
• 3:12:19
  Speaker 1: head like one who mused horse. I am ashamed to say,
• 3:12:23
  Speaker 1: must sooner or later decide these scrimmages. The brutes are
• 3:12:27
  Speaker 1: better than men, And to horse must we come at
• 3:12:29
  Speaker 1: last put a shodden hoof on the moccasin of a
• 3:12:32
  Speaker 1: red skin, and if his rifle be once emptied, he
• 3:12:36
  Speaker 1: will never stop to load it again. One the American
• 3:12:40
  Speaker 1: forest admits of the passage of horses, there being little
• 3:12:43
  Speaker 1: underbrush and few tangled brakes. The plan of Hawkeye is
• 3:12:47
  Speaker 1: the one which has always proved the most successful in
• 3:12:50
  Speaker 1: the battles between the Whites and the Indians. Wain, in
• 3:12:53
  Speaker 1: his celebrated campaign on the Miami, received the fire of
• 3:12:57
  Speaker 1: his enemies in line, and then causing his dragoons to
• 3:13:00
  Speaker 1: will round his flanks. The Indians were driven from their
• 3:13:02
  Speaker 1: covers before they had time to load. One of the
• 3:13:06
  Speaker 1: most conspicuous of the chiefs who fought in the Battle
• 3:13:08
  Speaker 1: of Miami assured the writer that the red men could
• 3:13:11
  Speaker 1: not fight the warriors with long knives and leather stockings,
• 3:13:14
  Speaker 1: meaning the dragoons with their sabers and boots. This is
• 3:13:18
  Speaker 1: a subject that might better be discussed at another time. Returned, Heyward,
• 3:13:22
  Speaker 1: shall we charge, I see no contradiction to the gifts
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 1: of any man in passing his breathing spells in useful reflections.
• 3:13:30
  Speaker 1: The scout replied, as to rush, I little relish such
• 3:13:33
  Speaker 1: a measure for a scalp or two must be thrown
• 3:13:36
  Speaker 1: away in the attempt. And yet, he added, bending his
• 3:13:40
  Speaker 1: head aside to catch the sounds of the distant combat.
• 3:13:43
  Speaker 1: If we are to be of use to Uncas, these
• 3:13:46
  Speaker 1: knaves in our front must be got rid of. Then,
• 3:13:49
  Speaker 1: turning with a prompt and decided air, he called aloud
• 3:13:52
  Speaker 1: to his Indians in their own language. His words were
• 3:13:56
  Speaker 1: answered by a shout, and at a given signal, each
• 3:13:59
  Speaker 1: warrior made a swift movement around his particular tree. The
• 3:14:03
  Speaker 1: sight of so many dark bodies glancing before their eyes
• 3:14:06
  Speaker 1: at the same instant drew a hasty and consequently and
• 3:14:09
  Speaker 1: ineffectual fire from the Hurons. Without stopping to breathe. The
• 3:14:14
  Speaker 1: Delawares leaped in long bounds towards the wood, like so
• 3:14:17
  Speaker 1: many panthers springing upon their prey. Hawkeye was in front,
• 3:14:21
  Speaker 1: brandishing his terrible rifle and animating his followers by his example.
• 3:14:26
  Speaker 1: A few of the older and more cunning Hurons, who
• 3:14:29
  Speaker 1: had not been deceived by the artifice which had been
• 3:14:31
  Speaker 1: practiced to draw their fire, now made a close and
• 3:14:34
  Speaker 1: deadly discharge of their pieces, and justified the apprehensions of
• 3:14:37
  Speaker 1: the Scout by felling three of his foremost warriors but
• 3:14:40
  Speaker 1: the shock was insufficient to repel the impetus of the charge.
• 3:14:45
  Speaker 1: The Delawares broke into the cover with the ferocity of
• 3:14:47
  Speaker 1: their natures and swept away every trace of resistance by
• 3:14:50
  Speaker 1: the fury of the onset. The combat endured only for
• 3:14:54
  Speaker 1: an instant hand to hand, and then the assailed yielded
• 3:14:57
  Speaker 1: ground rapidly until they reached the opper margin of the thicket,
• 3:15:01
  Speaker 1: where they clung to the cover with the sort of
• 3:15:03
  Speaker 1: obstinacy that is so often witnessed in hunted brutes. At
• 3:15:07
  Speaker 1: this critical moment, when the success of the struggle was
• 3:15:10
  Speaker 1: again becoming doubtful, the crack of a rifle was heard
• 3:15:13
  Speaker 1: behind the Hurons, and a bullet came whizzing from among
• 3:15:16
  Speaker 1: some beaver lodges which were situated in the clearing in
• 3:15:19
  Speaker 1: their rear, and was followed by the fierce and appalling
• 3:15:22
  Speaker 1: yell of the war whoop, there speaks the Sagamore, shouted, Hawkeye,
• 3:15:27
  Speaker 1: answering the cry with his own stentorian voice. We have
• 3:15:30
  Speaker 1: them now in face and back. The effect on the
• 3:15:33
  Speaker 1: Hurons was instantaneous, discouraged by an assault from a quarter
• 3:15:38
  Speaker 1: that left them no opportunity for cover. The warriors uttered
• 3:15:41
  Speaker 1: a common yell of disappointment, and breaking off in a body.
• 3:15:44
  Speaker 1: They spread themselves across the opening, heedless of every consideration
• 3:15:48
  Speaker 1: but flight. Many fell in making the experiment under the
• 3:15:53
  Speaker 1: bullets and the blows of the pursuing delawares. We shall
• 3:15:56
  Speaker 1: not pause to detail the meeting between the Scout and Chingachgook,
• 3:16:00
  Speaker 1: or the more touching interview that Duncan held with Monroe.
• 3:16:03
  Speaker 1: A few brief and hurried words served to explain the
• 3:16:06
  Speaker 1: state of things to both parties, and then Hawkeye, pointing
• 3:16:09
  Speaker 1: out the sagamore to his band, resigned the chief authority
• 3:16:12
  Speaker 1: into the hands of the Mohican chief. Chingach Gook assumed
• 3:16:16
  Speaker 1: the station to which his birth and experience gave him
• 3:16:19
  Speaker 1: so distinguished a claim with the grave dignity that always
• 3:16:22
  Speaker 1: gives force to the mandates of a native warrior. Following
• 3:16:26
  Speaker 1: the footsteps of the Scout, he led the party back
• 3:16:29
  Speaker 1: through the thicket, his men scalping the fallen hurons and
• 3:16:31
  Speaker 1: secreting the bodies of their own dead as they proceeded,
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 1: until they gained a point where the former was content
• 3:16:37
  Speaker 1: to make a halt. The warriors, who had breathed themselves
• 3:16:40
  Speaker 1: freely in the preceding struggle, were now posted on a
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 1: bit of level ground, sprinkled with trees in sufficient numbers
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: to conceal them. The land fell away rather precipitately in
• 3:16:51
  Speaker 1: front and beneath their eyes stretched for several miles a narrow,
• 3:16:55
  Speaker 1: dark and wooded veil. It was through this dense and
• 3:16:59
  Speaker 1: dark forest that Uncas was still contending with the main
• 3:17:02
  Speaker 1: body of the Hurons. The Mohican and his friends advanced
• 3:17:06
  Speaker 1: to the brow of the hill and listened with practiced
• 3:17:08
  Speaker 1: ears to the sounds of the combat. A few birds
• 3:17:12
  Speaker 1: hovered over the leafy bosom of the valley, frightened from
• 3:17:15
  Speaker 1: their secluded nests, and here in their a light vapory cloud,
• 3:17:18
  Speaker 1: which seemed already blending with the atmosphere, arose above the
• 3:17:22
  Speaker 1: trees and indicated some spot where the struggle had been
• 3:17:25
  Speaker 1: fierce and stationary. The fight is coming up the ascent,
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 1: said Duncan, pointing in the direction of a new explosion
• 3:17:32
  Speaker 1: of firearms. We are too much in the center of
• 3:17:34
  Speaker 1: their line to be effective. They will incline into the
• 3:17:38
  Speaker 1: hollow where the cover is thicker, said the scout, and
• 3:17:40
  Speaker 1: that will leave us well on their flank. Go Sagamore,
• 3:17:45
  Speaker 1: you will hardly be in time to give the whoop
• 3:17:47
  Speaker 1: and lead on the young men. I will fight this
• 3:17:50
  Speaker 1: scrimmage with warriors of my own color. You know me, Mohican,
• 3:17:55
  Speaker 1: Not a huron of them all shall cross the swell
• 3:17:57
  Speaker 1: into your rear without the notice of kill. Dot the
• 3:18:01
  Speaker 1: Indian chief paused another moment to consider the signs of
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 1: the contest, which was now rolling rapidly up the ascent,
• 3:18:08
  Speaker 1: a certain evidence that the Delawares triumphed. Nor did he
• 3:18:11
  Speaker 1: actually quit the place until admonished of the proximity of
• 3:18:14
  Speaker 1: his friends as well as enemies, by the bullets of
• 3:18:17
  Speaker 1: the former, which began to patter among the dried leaves
• 3:18:20
  Speaker 1: on the ground, like the bits of falling hail which
• 3:18:23
  Speaker 1: precede the bursting of the tempest. Hawkeye and his three
• 3:18:27
  Speaker 1: companions withdrew a few paces to a shelter and awaited
• 3:18:30
  Speaker 1: the issue with calmness, that nothing but great practice could
• 3:18:33
  Speaker 1: impart in such a scene. It was not long before
• 3:18:36
  Speaker 1: the reports of the rifles began to lose the echoes
• 3:18:39
  Speaker 1: of the woods and to sound like weapons discharged in
• 3:18:42
  Speaker 1: the open air. Then a warrior appeared here and there,
• 3:18:46
  Speaker 1: driven to the skirts of the forest and rallying as
• 3:18:48
  Speaker 1: he entered the clearing as at the place where the
• 3:18:50
  Speaker 1: final stand was to be made. These were soon joined
• 3:18:54
  Speaker 1: by others, until a long line of swarthy figures was
• 3:18:57
  Speaker 1: to be seen clinging to the cover with the obstinacy
• 3:19:00
  Speaker 1: of desperation. Heyward began to grow impatient and turned his
• 3:19:04
  Speaker 1: eyes anxiously in the direction of Chingachgook. The chief was
• 3:19:08
  Speaker 1: seated on a rock with nothing visible but his calm visage,
• 3:19:12
  Speaker 1: considering the spectacle with an eye as deliberate as if
• 3:19:14
  Speaker 1: he were posted there merely to view the struggle. The
• 3:19:17
  Speaker 1: time has come for the delaware to strike, said duncan
• 3:19:21
  Speaker 1: not so not so return the scout. When he sends
• 3:19:25
  Speaker 1: his friends, he will let them know that he is here. See.
• 3:19:29
  Speaker 1: See the knaves are getting in that clump of pines,
• 3:19:32
  Speaker 1: like bees settling after their flight by the lord. A
• 3:19:36
  Speaker 1: squaw might put a bullet into the center of such
• 3:19:38
  Speaker 1: a knot of dark skins. At that instant, the whoop
• 3:19:42
  Speaker 1: was given, and a dozen hurons fell by a discharge
• 3:19:44
  Speaker 1: from Chingachgook and his band. The shout that followed was
• 3:19:48
  Speaker 1: answered by a single war cry from the forest, and
• 3:19:51
  Speaker 1: a yell passed through the air that sounded as if
• 3:19:53
  Speaker 1: a thousand throats were united in a common effort. The
• 3:19:56
  Speaker 1: Hurons staggered, deserting the center of their line, and Uncas
• 3:20:00
  Speaker 1: issued from the forest through the opening. They left at
• 3:20:03
  Speaker 1: the head of a hundred warriors. Waving his hands right
• 3:20:06
  Speaker 1: and left, the young chief pointed out the enemy to
• 3:20:09
  Speaker 1: his followers, who separated in pursuit. The war now divided.
• 3:20:14
  Speaker 1: Both wings of the broken Hurons seeking protection in the woods,
• 3:20:17
  Speaker 1: again hotly pressed by the victorious warriors of the Lenape.
• 3:20:21
  Speaker 1: A minute might have passed, but the sounds were already
• 3:20:24
  Speaker 1: receding in different directions and gradually losing their distinctness. Beneath
• 3:20:28
  Speaker 1: the echoing arches of the woods. One little knot of Hurons, however,
• 3:20:33
  Speaker 1: had disdained to seek a cover, and were retiring like
• 3:20:36
  Speaker 1: lions at bay, slowly and sullenly, up the acclivity which
• 3:20:39
  Speaker 1: Chingachgook and his band had just deserted, to mingle more
• 3:20:43
  Speaker 1: closely in the fray. Magua was conspicuous in this party,
• 3:20:47
  Speaker 1: both by his fierce and savage mien and by the
• 3:20:50
  Speaker 1: air of haughty authority. He yet maintained in his eagerness
• 3:20:54
  Speaker 1: to expedite the pursuit, Uncas had left himself nearly alone,
• 3:20:57
  Speaker 1: but the moment as eye caught the figure of Lusau,
• 3:21:00
  Speaker 1: every other consideration was forgotten, raising his cry of battle,
• 3:21:05
  Speaker 1: which recalled some six or seven warriors, and reckless of
• 3:21:08
  Speaker 1: the disparity of their numbers, he rushed upon his enemy.
• 3:21:12
  Speaker 1: Lou Renard, who watched the movement, paused to receive him
• 3:21:15
  Speaker 1: with secret joy. But at the moment when he thought
• 3:21:18
  Speaker 1: the rashness of his impetuous young assailant had left him
• 3:21:21
  Speaker 1: at his mercy, another shout was given, and lo long
• 3:21:24
  Speaker 1: caravan was seen rushing to the rescue, Attended by all
• 3:21:27
  Speaker 1: his white associates. The Huron instantly turned and commenced a
• 3:21:32
  Speaker 1: rapid retreat up the ascent. There was no time for
• 3:21:35
  Speaker 1: greetings or congratulations, for Uncas, though unconscious of the presence
• 3:21:40
  Speaker 1: of his friends, continued the pursuit with the velocity of
• 3:21:43
  Speaker 1: the wind. In vain Hawkeye called to him to respect
• 3:21:46
  Speaker 1: the covers. The young Mohican braved the dangerous fire of
• 3:21:50
  Speaker 1: his enemies and soon compelled them to a flight as
• 3:21:52
  Speaker 1: swift as his own headlong speed. It was fortunate that
• 3:21:56
  Speaker 1: the race was of short continuance, and that the white
• 3:21:59
  Speaker 1: men were much favored by their position, or the Delaware
• 3:22:02
  Speaker 1: would soon have outstripped all his companions and fallen a
• 3:22:05
  Speaker 1: victim to his own temerity. But ere such a calamity
• 3:22:09
  Speaker 1: could happen. The pursuers and pursued entered the Wyandot village
• 3:22:13
  Speaker 1: within striking distance of each other. Excited by the presence
• 3:22:17
  Speaker 1: of their dwellings and tired of the chase, the Hurons
• 3:22:20
  Speaker 1: now made a stand and fought around their council lodge
• 3:22:23
  Speaker 1: with the fury of despair. The onset and the issue
• 3:22:26
  Speaker 1: were like the passage and destruction of a whirlwind. The
• 3:22:30
  Speaker 1: tomahawk of Uncas, the blows of Hawkeye, and even the
• 3:22:33
  Speaker 1: still nervous arm of Monroe were all busy for that
• 3:22:36
  Speaker 1: passing moment, and the ground was quickly strewed with their enemies. Still, Magua,
• 3:22:41
  Speaker 1: though daring and much exposed, escaped from every effort against
• 3:22:45
  Speaker 1: his life with that sort of fabled protection that was
• 3:22:48
  Speaker 1: made to overlook the fortunes of favored heroes in the
• 3:22:50
  Speaker 1: legends of ancient poetry, raising a yell that spoke volumes
• 3:22:54
  Speaker 1: of anger and disappointment. The subtle chief when he saw
• 3:22:57
  Speaker 1: his comrades. Fallen, darted away from the place attended by
• 3:23:01
  Speaker 1: his two only surviving friends, leaving the Delawares engaged in
• 3:23:04
  Speaker 1: stripping the dead of the bloody trophies of their victory.
• 3:23:08
  Speaker 1: But Uncas, who had vainly sought him in the melee,
• 3:23:11
  Speaker 1: bounded forward in pursuit, Hawkeye, Heyward, and David, still pressing
• 3:23:15
  Speaker 1: on his footsteps. The utmost that the scout could effect
• 3:23:19
  Speaker 1: was to keep the muzzle of his rifle a little
• 3:23:21
  Speaker 1: in advance of his friend, to whom, however, it answered
• 3:23:25
  Speaker 1: every purpose of a charmed shield. Once Magua appeared, disposed
• 3:23:29
  Speaker 1: to make another in a final effort to revenge his losses,
• 3:23:32
  Speaker 1: but abandoning his intention as soon as demonstrated, he leaped
• 3:23:36
  Speaker 1: into a thicket of bushes, through which he was followed
• 3:23:38
  Speaker 1: by his enemies, and suddenly entered the mouth of the cave,
• 3:23:41
  Speaker 1: already known to the reader. Hawkeye, who had only forborne
• 3:23:45
  Speaker 1: to fire in tenderness to Uncas, raised a shout of
• 3:23:48
  Speaker 1: success and proclaimed aloud that now they were certain of
• 3:23:51
  Speaker 1: their game. The pursuers dashed into the long and narrow
• 3:23:55
  Speaker 1: entrance in time to catch a glimpse of the retreating
• 3:23:58
  Speaker 1: forms of the hurons. Their passage through the natural galleries
• 3:24:02
  Speaker 1: and subterraneous apartments of the cavern was preceded by the
• 3:24:05
  Speaker 1: shrieks and cries of hundreds of women and children. The place,
• 3:24:09
  Speaker 1: seen by its dim and uncertain light, appeared like the
• 3:24:12
  Speaker 1: shades of the infernal regions across which unhappy ghosts and
• 3:24:16
  Speaker 1: savage demons were flitting in multitudes. Still, Uncas kept his
• 3:24:20
  Speaker 1: eye on Magua, as if life to him possessed but
• 3:24:23
  Speaker 1: a single object. Hayward and the Scout still pressed on
• 3:24:27
  Speaker 1: his rear, actuated, though possibly in a less degree, by
• 3:24:30
  Speaker 1: a common feeling. But their way was becoming intricate in
• 3:24:34
  Speaker 1: those dark and gloomy passages, and the glimpses of the
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 1: retiring warriors less distinct and frequent, and for a moment
• 3:24:41
  Speaker 1: the trace was believed to be lost. When a white
• 3:24:43
  Speaker 1: robe was seen fluttering in the further extremity of a
• 3:24:46
  Speaker 1: passage that seemed to lead up the mountain, Tis Cora
• 3:24:50
  Speaker 1: exclaimed Heyward, in a voice in which horror and delight
• 3:24:54
  Speaker 1: were wildly mingled. Cora Cora echoed Uncas, bounding for forward
• 3:25:00
  Speaker 1: like a deer. 'tis the maiden shouted, the scout courage lady,
• 3:25:06
  Speaker 1: we come, we come. The chase was renewed with a
• 3:25:10
  Speaker 1: diligence rendered tenfold, encouraging by this glimpse of the captive.
• 3:25:15
  Speaker 1: But the way was rugged broken and in spots nearly impassable.
• 3:25:19
  Speaker 1: Uncas abandoned his rifle and leaped forward with headlong precipitation.
• 3:25:24
  Speaker 1: Heyward rashly imitated his example, though both were a moment afterward,
• 3:25:29
  Speaker 1: admonished of his madness by hearing the bellowing of a
• 3:25:32
  Speaker 1: piece that the Hurons found time to discharge down the
• 3:25:35
  Speaker 1: passage in the rocks, the bullet from which even gave
• 3:25:37
  Speaker 1: the young Mohican a slight wound. We must close, said
• 3:25:42
  Speaker 1: the scout, passing his friends by a desperate leap. The
• 3:25:45
  Speaker 1: knaves will pick us all off at this distance, and
• 3:25:48
  Speaker 1: see they hold the maiden so as to shield themselves.
• 3:25:52
  Speaker 1: Though his words were unheeded, or rather unheard, his example
• 3:25:56
  Speaker 1: was followed by his companions, who, by incredible exertions got
• 3:26:00
  Speaker 1: near enough to the fugitives to perceive that Cora was
• 3:26:03
  Speaker 1: borne along between the two warriors. While Magua prescribed the
• 3:26:06
  Speaker 1: direction and manner of their flight. At this moment, the
• 3:26:09
  Speaker 1: forms of all four were strongly drawn against an opening
• 3:26:12
  Speaker 1: in the sky, and they disappeared. Nearly frantic with disappointment.
• 3:26:17
  Speaker 1: Uncas and Heyward increased efforts that already seemed superhuman, and
• 3:26:21
  Speaker 1: they issued from the cavern on the side of the
• 3:26:23
  Speaker 1: mountain in time to note the route of the pursued
• 3:26:26
  Speaker 1: the course, lay up the ascent, and still continued hazardous
• 3:26:30
  Speaker 1: and laborious. Encumbered by his rifle and perhaps not sustained
• 3:26:35
  Speaker 1: by so deep an interest in the captive as his companions,
• 3:26:38
  Speaker 1: the scout suffered the latter to precede him a little,
• 3:26:41
  Speaker 1: Uncas in his turn, taking the lead of Heyward. In
• 3:26:45
  Speaker 1: this manner, rocks, precipices, and difficulties were surmounted in an
• 3:26:49
  Speaker 1: incredibly short space that at another time and under other
• 3:26:52
  Speaker 1: circumstances would have been deemed almost insuperable. But the impetuous
• 3:26:57
  Speaker 1: young men were rewarded by finding that, encumbered with Cora,
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 1: the Hurons were losing ground in the race. Stay dog
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 1: of the Wyandots, exclaimed Uncas, shaking his bright tomahawk at Magua.
• 3:27:11
  Speaker 1: A Delaware girl calls Stay, I will go no further,
• 3:27:15
  Speaker 1: cried Cora, stopping unexpectedly on a ledge of rock that
• 3:27:18
  Speaker 1: overhung a deep precipice, at no great distance from the
• 3:27:21
  Speaker 1: summit of the mountain. Kill me. If thou wilt, detestable Huron,
• 3:27:26
  Speaker 1: I will go no further. The supporters of the Maiden
• 3:27:29
  Speaker 1: raised their ready tomahawks with the impious joy that fiends
• 3:27:32
  Speaker 1: are thought to take in mischief, but Magua stayed the
• 3:27:35
  Speaker 1: uplifted arms the Huron chief, after casting the weapons he
• 3:27:40
  Speaker 1: had wrested from his companions over the rock, drew his
• 3:27:42
  Speaker 1: knife and turned to his captive with a look in
• 3:27:45
  Speaker 1: which conflicting passions fiercely contended. Woman, He said, chose the
• 3:27:50
  Speaker 1: Wigwam or the knife of lou Subtle. Cora regarded him
• 3:27:54
  Speaker 1: not but dropping on her knees, she raised her eyes
• 3:27:57
  Speaker 1: and stretched her arms toward heaven, saying, in a meek
• 3:28:00
  Speaker 1: and yet confiding voice, I am thine. Do with me
• 3:28:03
  Speaker 1: as thou sayest. Best woman, repeated Magua, hoarsely and endeavoring
• 3:28:09
  Speaker 1: in vain to catch a glance from her serene and
• 3:28:11
  Speaker 1: beaming eye. Choose, But Cora neither heard nor heeded his demand.
• 3:28:17
  Speaker 1: The form of the Huron trembled in every fiber, and
• 3:28:20
  Speaker 1: he raised his arm on high, but dropped it again
• 3:28:22
  Speaker 1: with a bewildered air, like one who doubted once more,
• 3:28:26
  Speaker 1: he struggled with himself and lifted the keen weapon again.
• 3:28:29
  Speaker 1: But just then a piercing cry was heard above them,
• 3:28:32
  Speaker 1: and Uncas appeared, leaping frantically from a fearful height upon
• 3:28:36
  Speaker 1: the ledge. Magua recoiled a step, and one of his assistants,
• 3:28:40
  Speaker 1: profiting by the chance, sheathed his own knife in the
• 3:28:43
  Speaker 1: bosom of Cora. The Huron sprang like a tiger on
• 3:28:47
  Speaker 1: his offending and already retreating country man, But the falling
• 3:28:50
  Speaker 1: form of Uncas separated the unnatural combatants. Diverted from his
• 3:28:55
  Speaker 1: object by this interruption, and maddened by the murder he
• 3:28:58
  Speaker 1: had just witnessed, Magua bare his weapon in the back
• 3:29:01
  Speaker 1: of the prostrate delaware, uttering an unearthly shout as he
• 3:29:04
  Speaker 1: committed the dastardly deed. But Uncas arose from the blow
• 3:29:08
  Speaker 1: as the wounded panther turns upon his foe and struck
• 3:29:11
  Speaker 1: the murderer of Cora to his feet by an effort
• 3:29:13
  Speaker 1: in which the last of his failing strength was expended. Then,
• 3:29:17
  Speaker 1: with a stern and steady look, he turned to loose,
• 3:29:20
  Speaker 1: subtle and indicated by the expression of his eye all
• 3:29:23
  Speaker 1: that he would do had not the power deserted him.
• 3:29:26
  Speaker 1: The latter seized the nerveless arm of the unresisting delaware
• 3:29:29
  Speaker 1: and passed his knife into his bosom three several times
• 3:29:32
  Speaker 1: before his victim, still keeping his gaze, riveted on his
• 3:29:36
  Speaker 1: enemy with a look of inextinguishable scorn, fell dead at
• 3:29:39
  Speaker 1: his feet. Mercy, Mercy, Huron, cried heyward from above, in
• 3:29:46
  Speaker 1: tones nearly choked by horror, Give mercy, and thou shalt
• 3:29:50
  Speaker 1: receive from it. Whirling the bloody knife up at the
• 3:29:53
  Speaker 1: imploring youth, the victorious Magua uttered a cry so fierce,
• 3:29:57
  Speaker 1: so wild, and yet so joyous, that a conveyed the
• 3:30:00
  Speaker 1: sounds of savage triumph to the ears of those who
• 3:30:02
  Speaker 1: fought in the valley a thousand feet below. He was
• 3:30:07
  Speaker 1: answered by a burst from the lips of the scout,
• 3:30:09
  Speaker 1: whose tall person was just then seen moving swiftly toward
• 3:30:12
  Speaker 1: him along those dangerous crags, with steps as bold and
• 3:30:16
  Speaker 1: reckless as if he possessed the power to move an air.
• 3:30:19
  Speaker 1: But when the hunter reached the scene of the ruthless massacre,
• 3:30:22
  Speaker 1: the ledge was tenanted only by the dead. His keen
• 3:30:26
  Speaker 1: eye took a single look at the victims, and then
• 3:30:28
  Speaker 1: shot its glances over the difficulties of the ascent. In
• 3:30:31
  Speaker 1: his front. A form stood at the brow of the mountain,
• 3:30:35
  Speaker 1: on the very edge of the giddy height, with uplifted
• 3:30:37
  Speaker 1: arms in an awful attitude of menace, without stopping to
• 3:30:42
  Speaker 1: consider his person. The rifle of Hawkeye was raised, but
• 3:30:45
  Speaker 1: a rock which fell on the head of one of
• 3:30:47
  Speaker 1: the fugitives below exposed the indignant and glowing countenance of
• 3:30:51
  Speaker 1: the honest Gamut. Then Magua issued from a crevice, and,
• 3:30:55
  Speaker 1: stepping with calm indifference, over the body of the last
• 3:30:58
  Speaker 1: of his associates, he leaped away wide fissure and ascended
• 3:31:01
  Speaker 1: the rocks at a point where the arm of David
• 3:31:03
  Speaker 1: could not reach him. A single bound would carry him
• 3:31:06
  Speaker 1: to the brow of the precipice and assure his safety.
• 3:31:10
  Speaker 1: Before taking the leap, however, the Huron paused, and, shaking
• 3:31:14
  Speaker 1: his hand at the scout, he shouted, the pale faces
• 3:31:17
  Speaker 1: are dogs, the delawares women. Magua leaves them on the
• 3:31:22
  Speaker 1: rocks for the crows. Laughing hoarsely, he made a desperate
• 3:31:27
  Speaker 1: leap and fell short of his mark, though his hands
• 3:31:30
  Speaker 1: grasped a shrub on the verge of the height. The
• 3:31:33
  Speaker 1: form of Hawkeye had crouched like a beast about to
• 3:31:35
  Speaker 1: take its spring, and his frame trembled so violently with
• 3:31:38
  Speaker 1: eagerness that the muzzle of the half raised rifle played
• 3:31:41
  Speaker 1: like a leaf fluttering in the wind. Without exhausting himself
• 3:31:45
  Speaker 1: with fruitless efforts, the cutting Magua suffered his body to
• 3:31:48
  Speaker 1: drop to the length of his arms, and found a
• 3:31:50
  Speaker 1: fragment for his feet to rest on. Then, summoning all
• 3:31:54
  Speaker 1: his powers, he renewed the attempt, and so far succeeded
• 3:31:58
  Speaker 1: as to draw his knees on the edge of the mountain.
• 3:32:01
  Speaker 1: It was now, when the body of his enemy was
• 3:32:03
  Speaker 1: most collected together, that the agitated weapon of the scout
• 3:32:07
  Speaker 1: was drawn to his shoulder. The surrounding rocks themselves were
• 3:32:11
  Speaker 1: not steadier than the peace became for the single instant
• 3:32:14
  Speaker 1: that it poured out its contents. The arms of the
• 3:32:17
  Speaker 1: Huron relaxed and his body fell back a little, while
• 3:32:20
  Speaker 1: his knees still kept their position. Turning a relentless look
• 3:32:24
  Speaker 1: on his enemy, he shook a hand in grim defiance,
• 3:32:28
  Speaker 1: but his hold loosened, and his dark person was seen
• 3:32:31
  Speaker 1: cutting the air with its head downward for a fleeting
• 3:32:33
  Speaker 1: instant until it glided past the fringe of shrubbery which
• 3:32:36
  Speaker 1: clung to the mountain in its rapid flight to destruction
• 3:32:40
  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty three. They fought like brave men, long and well.
• 3:32:45
  Speaker 1: They piled that ground with Moslem slain. They conquered. But
• 3:32:49
  Speaker 1: Butsaris fell bleeding at every vein his few surviving comrades
• 3:32:54
  Speaker 1: saw his smile when rang their loud hurrah and the
• 3:32:57
  Speaker 1: red field was won. Then saw in death his eye
• 3:33:00
  Speaker 1: lids close calmly as to a night's repose, like flowers.
• 3:33:03
  Speaker 1: That said of Sun Hallick. The sun found the Lenape
• 3:33:08
  Speaker 1: on the succeeding day a nation of mourners. The sounds
• 3:33:12
  Speaker 1: of the battle were over, and they had fed fat
• 3:33:14
  Speaker 1: their ancient grudge, and had avenged their recent quarrel with
• 3:33:17
  Speaker 1: the Mangui by the destruction of a whole community. The
• 3:33:21
  Speaker 1: black and murky atmosphere that floated around the spot where
• 3:33:24
  Speaker 1: the Hurons had encamped sufficiently announced of itself the fate
• 3:33:28
  Speaker 1: of that wandering tribe. While hundreds of ravens that struggled
• 3:33:31
  Speaker 1: above the summits of the mountains or swept in noisy
• 3:33:35
  Speaker 1: flocks across the wide ranges of the woods furnished a
• 3:33:39
  Speaker 1: frightful direction to the scene of the combat. In short,
• 3:33:43
  Speaker 1: any eye at all practiced in the signs of a
• 3:33:45
  Speaker 1: frontier warfare might easily have traced all those unerring evidences
• 3:33:49
  Speaker 1: of the ruthless results which attend an Indian vengeance. Still,
• 3:33:53
  Speaker 1: the sun rose on the Lenapia nation of mourners. No
• 3:33:57
  Speaker 1: shouts of success, no songs of triumph, were heard in
• 3:34:01
  Speaker 1: rejoicings for their victory. The latest straggler had returned from
• 3:34:05
  Speaker 1: his fell employment only to strip himself of the terrific
• 3:34:08
  Speaker 1: emblems of his bloody calling, and to join in the
• 3:34:10
  Speaker 1: lamentations of his countrymen as a stricken people. Pride and
• 3:34:15
  Speaker 1: exultation were supplanted by humility, and the fiercest of human
• 3:34:18
  Speaker 1: passions was already succeeded by the most profound and unequivocal
• 3:34:22
  Speaker 1: demonstrations of grief. The lodges were deserted, but a broad
• 3:34:26
  Speaker 1: belt of earnest faces encircled the spot in their vicinity,
• 3:34:29
  Speaker 1: whither everything possessing life had repaired, and where all were
• 3:34:32
  Speaker 1: now collected in deep and awful silence. Though beings of
• 3:34:37
  Speaker 1: every rank and age, of both sexes, and of all
• 3:34:40
  Speaker 1: pursuits had united to form this breathing wall of bodies.
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 1: They were influenced by a single emotion. Each I was
• 3:34:47
  Speaker 1: riveted on the center of that ring which contained the
• 3:34:50
  Speaker 1: objects of so much and of so common an interest.
• 3:34:54
  Speaker 1: Six delaware girls, with their long, dark flowing tresses falling
• 3:34:58
  Speaker 1: loosely across their bosoms, stood apart and only gave proof
• 3:35:02
  Speaker 1: of their existence as they occasionally strewed sweet scented herbs
• 3:35:05
  Speaker 1: and forest flowers on a litter of fragrant plants that,
• 3:35:08
  Speaker 1: under a pall of Indian robes supported all that now
• 3:35:11
  Speaker 1: remained of the ardent, heighsold and generous Cora. Her form
• 3:35:16
  Speaker 1: was concealed in many wrappers of the same simple manufacture,
• 3:35:19
  Speaker 1: and her face was shut forever from the gaze of men.
• 3:35:23
  Speaker 1: At her feet was seated the desolate Monroe. His aged
• 3:35:27
  Speaker 1: head was bowed nearly to the earth in compelled submission
• 3:35:30
  Speaker 1: to the stroke of providence, but a hidden anguish struggled
• 3:35:33
  Speaker 1: about his furrowed brow that was only partially concealed by
• 3:35:36
  Speaker 1: the careless locks of gray that had fallen neglected on
• 3:35:39
  Speaker 1: his temples. Gamlet stood at his side, his meek head
• 3:35:43
  Speaker 1: bared to the rays of the sun, while his eyes
• 3:35:46
  Speaker 1: wandering and concerned, seemed to be equally divided between that
• 3:35:49
  Speaker 1: little volume which contained so many quaint but holy maxims,
• 3:35:53
  Speaker 1: and the being in whose behalf his sole yurn to
• 3:35:55
  Speaker 1: administer consolation. Heyward was also nigh support, courting himself against
• 3:36:01
  Speaker 1: a tree and endeavoring to keep down those sudden risings
• 3:36:04
  Speaker 1: of sorrow that it required his utmost manhood to subdue.
• 3:36:08
  Speaker 1: But sad and melancholy as this group may easily be imagined,
• 3:36:11
  Speaker 1: it was far less touching than another that occupied the
• 3:36:14
  Speaker 1: opposite space of the same area. Seated as in life,
• 3:36:19
  Speaker 1: with his form and limbs arranged in grave and decent composure,
• 3:36:22
  Speaker 1: uncasappeared orrayed in the most gorgeous ornaments that the wealth
• 3:36:25
  Speaker 1: of the tribe could furnish. Rich plumes knotted above his head,
• 3:36:30
  Speaker 1: wampum gorgets, bracelets, and metals adorned his person in profusion,
• 3:36:35
  Speaker 1: though his dull eye and vacant lineaments too strongly contradicted
• 3:36:38
  Speaker 1: the idle tale of pride they would convey. Directly in
• 3:36:42
  Speaker 1: front of the corpse, Chingachgook was placed without arms, paint,
• 3:36:45
  Speaker 1: or adornment of any sort except the bright blue blazonry
• 3:36:49
  Speaker 1: of his race that was indelibly impressed on his naked bosom.
• 3:36:53
  Speaker 1: During the long period that the tribe had thus been collected,
• 3:36:56
  Speaker 1: the Mohican warrior had kept a steady, anxious look on
• 3:36:59
  Speaker 1: the cold and senseless countenance of his son. So riveted
• 3:37:03
  Speaker 1: and intense had been that gaze, and so changeless his
• 3:37:06
  Speaker 1: attitude that a stranger might not have told the living
• 3:37:09
  Speaker 1: from the dead, but for the occasional gleamings of a
• 3:37:11
  Speaker 1: troubled spirit that shot athwart the dark visage of one,
• 3:37:14
  Speaker 1: and the deathlike calm that had forever settled on the
• 3:37:17
  Speaker 1: lineaments of the other. The scout was hard byke, leaning
• 3:37:21
  Speaker 1: in a pensive posture on his own fatal and avenging weapon,
• 3:37:24
  Speaker 1: while Temnane, supported by the elders of his nation, occupied
• 3:37:27
  Speaker 1: a high place at hand, whence he might look down
• 3:37:30
  Speaker 1: on the mute and sorrowful assemblage of his people. Just
• 3:37:33
  Speaker 1: within the inner edge of the circle stood a soldier
• 3:37:36
  Speaker 1: in the military attire of a strange nation, and without
• 3:37:39
  Speaker 1: it was his war horse, in the center of a
• 3:37:41
  Speaker 1: collection of mounted domestics, seemingly in readiness to undertake some
• 3:37:45
  Speaker 1: distant journey. The vestments of the stranger announced him to
• 3:37:49
  Speaker 1: be one who held a responsible situation near the person
• 3:37:51
  Speaker 1: of the captain of the Cannadas, and who, as it
• 3:37:54
  Speaker 1: would now seem, finding his errand of peace, frustrated by
• 3:37:57
  Speaker 1: the fierce impetuosity of his allies, was content to become
• 3:38:01
  Speaker 1: a silent and sad spectator of the fruits of a
• 3:38:04
  Speaker 1: contest that he had arrived too late to anticipate. The
• 3:38:07
  Speaker 1: day was drawing to the close of its first quarter,
• 3:38:10
  Speaker 1: and yet had the multitude maintained its breathing stillness since
• 3:38:13
  Speaker 1: its dawn. No sound louder than a stifled sob had
• 3:38:17
  Speaker 1: been heard among them, nor had even a limb been
• 3:38:19
  Speaker 1: moved throughout that long and painful period, except to perform
• 3:38:22
  Speaker 1: the simple and touching offerings that were made from time
• 3:38:25
  Speaker 1: to time in commemoration of the dead. The patience and
• 3:38:29
  Speaker 1: forbearance of Indian fortitude could alone support such an appearance
• 3:38:33
  Speaker 1: of abstraction as seemed now to have turned each dark
• 3:38:36
  Speaker 1: and motionless figure into stone. At length, the Sage of
• 3:38:40
  Speaker 1: the Delawares stretched forth an arm, and leaning on the
• 3:38:42
  Speaker 1: shoulders of his attendants, he arose with an air as
• 3:38:45
  Speaker 1: feeble as if another age had already intervened between the
• 3:38:48
  Speaker 1: man who had met his nation the preceding day, and
• 3:38:51
  Speaker 1: him who now tottered on his elevated stand, Men of
• 3:38:54
  Speaker 1: the Lennape, he said, in low, hollow tones that sounded
• 3:38:59
  Speaker 1: like a voice charged with some prophetic mission, the face
• 3:39:02
  Speaker 1: of the Manitou is behind a cloud. His eye is
• 3:39:05
  Speaker 1: turned from you, his ears are shut. His tongue gives
• 3:39:08
  Speaker 1: no answer. You see him not yet his judgments are
• 3:39:12
  Speaker 1: before you. Let your hearts be open, and your spirits
• 3:39:16
  Speaker 1: tell no lie, Men of the Lenape, The face of
• 3:39:20
  Speaker 1: the Manitou is behind a cloud. As this simple and
• 3:39:24
  Speaker 1: yet terrible enunciation stole on the ears of the multitude,
• 3:39:27
  Speaker 1: a stillness as deep and awful succeeded, as if the
• 3:39:30
  Speaker 1: venerated spirit they worshiped had uttered the words without the
• 3:39:33
  Speaker 1: aid of human organs, and even the inanimate Uncas appeared
• 3:39:36
  Speaker 1: a being of life compared with the humbled and submissive
• 3:39:39
  Speaker 1: throng by whom he was surrounded. As the immediate effect, however,
• 3:39:44
  Speaker 1: gradually passed away. A low murmur of voices commenced, a
• 3:39:48
  Speaker 1: sort of chant in honor of the dead. The sounds
• 3:39:51
  Speaker 1: were those of females and were thrillingly soft and wailing.
• 3:39:55
  Speaker 1: The words were connected by no regular continuation, but as
• 3:39:58
  Speaker 1: one ceased, another took up the eulogy or lamentation, whichever
• 3:40:02
  Speaker 1: it might be called, and gave vent to her emotions
• 3:40:05
  Speaker 1: in such language as was suggested by her feelings and
• 3:40:07
  Speaker 1: the occasion at intervals the speaker was interrupted by general
• 3:40:12
  Speaker 1: and loud bursts of sorrow, during which the girls around
• 3:40:15
  Speaker 1: the bier of Cora plucked the plants and flowers blindly
• 3:40:17
  Speaker 1: from her body, as if bewildered with grief. But in
• 3:40:21
  Speaker 1: the milder moments of their plaint, these emblems of purity
• 3:40:24
  Speaker 1: and sweetness were cast back to their places with every
• 3:40:27
  Speaker 1: sign of tenderness and regret. Though rendered less connected by
• 3:40:32
  Speaker 1: many in general interruptions and outbreakings, a translation of their
• 3:40:35
  Speaker 1: language would have contained a regular descant, which, in substance
• 3:40:39
  Speaker 1: might have proved to possess a train of consecutive ideas.
• 3:40:43
  Speaker 1: A girl selected for the task by her rank and qualifications,
• 3:40:47
  Speaker 1: commenced by modest allusions to the qualities of the deceased warrior,
• 3:40:51
  Speaker 1: embellishing her expressions with those oriental images that the Indians
• 3:40:54
  Speaker 1: have probably brought with them from the extremes of the
• 3:40:56
  Speaker 1: other continent, and which form of themselves link to connect
• 3:41:01
  Speaker 1: the ancient histories of the two worlds. She called him
• 3:41:04
  Speaker 1: the panther of his tribe, and described him as one
• 3:41:07
  Speaker 1: whose moccasin left no trail on the dews, whose bound
• 3:41:10
  Speaker 1: was like the leap of a young fawn, whose eye
• 3:41:12
  Speaker 1: was brighter than a star in the dark night, and
• 3:41:15
  Speaker 1: whose voice in battle was loud as the thunder of
• 3:41:19
  Speaker 1: the Manitou. She reminded him of the mother who bore him,
• 3:41:22
  Speaker 1: and dwelt forcibly on the happiness she must feel in
• 3:41:25
  Speaker 1: possessing such a son. She bade him tell her, when
• 3:41:29
  Speaker 1: they met in the world of spirits, that the delaware
• 3:41:31
  Speaker 1: girls had shed tears above the grave of her child
• 3:41:34
  Speaker 1: and had called her blest. Then they who succeeded, changing
• 3:41:39
  Speaker 1: their tones to a milder and still more tender strain,
• 3:41:41
  Speaker 1: alluded with the delicacy and sensitiveness of women. To the
• 3:41:45
  Speaker 1: stranger maiden, who had left the upper Earth at a
• 3:41:47
  Speaker 1: time so near his own departure as to render the
• 3:41:50
  Speaker 1: will of the Great Spirit too manifest to be disregarded.
• 3:41:54
  Speaker 1: They admonished him to be kind to her, and to
• 3:41:56
  Speaker 1: have consideration for her ignorance of those arts which were
• 3:41:59
  Speaker 1: so necessary to the comfort of a warrior like himself.
• 3:42:03
  Speaker 1: They dwelled upon her matchless beauty and on her noble
• 3:42:06
  Speaker 1: resolution without the taint of envy, and as angels may
• 3:42:09
  Speaker 1: be thought to delight in a superior excellence, adding that
• 3:42:12
  Speaker 1: these endowments should prove more than equivalent for any little
• 3:42:15
  Speaker 1: imperfection in her education, after which others, again in due succession,
• 3:42:21
  Speaker 1: spoke to the maiden herself in the low, soft language
• 3:42:24
  Speaker 1: of tenderness and love. They exhorted her to be of
• 3:42:28
  Speaker 1: cheerful mind and to fear nothing for her future welfare.
• 3:42:32
  Speaker 1: A hunter would be her companion, who knew how to
• 3:42:35
  Speaker 1: provide for her smallest wants, and a warrior was at
• 3:42:38
  Speaker 1: her side who was able to protect he against every danger.
• 3:42:41
  Speaker 1: They promised that her path should be pleasant and her
• 3:42:44
  Speaker 1: burden light. They cautioned her against unavailing regrets for the
• 3:42:48
  Speaker 1: friends of her youth and the scenes where her father
• 3:42:50
  Speaker 1: had dwelt, assuring her that the blessed hunting grounds of
• 3:42:54
  Speaker 1: the Lenape contained valets as pleasant, streams as pure, and
• 3:42:58
  Speaker 1: flowers as sweet as the heaven of the pale faces.
• 3:43:02
  Speaker 1: They advised her to be attentive to the wants of
• 3:43:04
  Speaker 1: her companion, and never to forget the distinction which the
• 3:43:07
  Speaker 1: Manitou had so wisely established between them. Then, in a
• 3:43:11
  Speaker 1: wild burst of their chant, they sang with united voices
• 3:43:14
  Speaker 1: the temper of the Mohican's mind. They pronounced him noble, manly,
• 3:43:19
  Speaker 1: and generous, all that became a warrior, and all that
• 3:43:22
  Speaker 1: a maid might love. Clothing their ideas. In the most
• 3:43:25
  Speaker 1: remote and subtle images, they betrayed that, in the short
• 3:43:29
  Speaker 1: period of their intercourse they had discovered, with the intuitive
• 3:43:32
  Speaker 1: perception of their sex, the truant disposition of his inclinations.
• 3:43:37
  Speaker 1: The Delaware girls had found no favor in his eyes.
• 3:43:41
  Speaker 1: He was of a race that had once been lords
• 3:43:43
  Speaker 1: on the shores of the Salt Lake, and his wishes
• 3:43:45
  Speaker 1: had led him back to a people who dwelt about
• 3:43:47
  Speaker 1: the graves of his fathers. Why should not such a
• 3:43:50
  Speaker 1: predilection be encouraged. That she was of a blood purer
• 3:43:54
  Speaker 1: and richer than the rest of her nation, any I
• 3:43:57
  Speaker 1: might have seen that she was equal to the dangers
• 3:43:59
  Speaker 1: and daring of a life in the woods. Her conduct
• 3:44:02
  Speaker 1: had proved, And now they added, though wise one of
• 3:44:05
  Speaker 1: the Earth had transplanted her to a place where she
• 3:44:07
  Speaker 1: would find congenial spirits, and might be forever happy. Then,
• 3:44:12
  Speaker 1: with another transition in voice and subject, allusions were made
• 3:44:15
  Speaker 1: to the virgin who wept in the adjacent lodge. They
• 3:44:19
  Speaker 1: compared her to flakes of snow, as pure, as white,
• 3:44:22
  Speaker 1: as brilliant, and as liable to melt in the fierce
• 3:44:25
  Speaker 1: heats of summer or congeal in the frosts of winter.
• 3:44:29
  Speaker 1: They doubted not that she was lovely in the eyes
• 3:44:31
  Speaker 1: of the young chief, whose skin and whose sorrow seemed
• 3:44:34
  Speaker 1: so like her own. But though far from expressing such
• 3:44:37
  Speaker 1: a preference, it was evident they deemed her less excellent
• 3:44:40
  Speaker 1: than the maid they mourned. Still, they denied her no need.
• 3:44:43
  Speaker 1: Her rare charms might properly claim. Her ringlets were compared
• 3:44:48
  Speaker 1: to the exuberant tendrils of the vine, her eye to
• 3:44:50
  Speaker 1: the blue vault of heavens, And the most spotless cloud,
• 3:44:53
  Speaker 1: with its glowing flush of the sun, was admitted to
• 3:44:56
  Speaker 1: be less attractive than her bloom. During these and similar songs,
• 3:45:00
  Speaker 1: nothing was audible but the murmurs of the music, relieved
• 3:45:04
  Speaker 1: as it was, or rather rendered terrible by those occasional
• 3:45:07
  Speaker 1: bursts of grief which might be called its choruses. The
• 3:45:11
  Speaker 1: Delawares themselves listened like charmed men, and it was very
• 3:45:14
  Speaker 1: apparent by the variations of their speaking countenances, how deep
• 3:45:18
  Speaker 1: and true was their sympathy. Even David was not reluctant
• 3:45:22
  Speaker 1: to lend his ears to the tones of voices so
• 3:45:24
  Speaker 1: sweet and long. Ere the chant was ended, his gaze
• 3:45:27
  Speaker 1: announced that his soul was enthralled. The scout, to whom alone,
• 3:45:31
  Speaker 1: of all the white men, the words were intelligible, suffered
• 3:45:35
  Speaker 1: himself to be a little aroused from his meditative posture,
• 3:45:38
  Speaker 1: and bent his face aside to catch their meaning as
• 3:45:41
  Speaker 1: the girls proceeded. But when they spoke of the future
• 3:45:44
  Speaker 1: prospects of Cora and Uncas, he shook his head like
• 3:45:47
  Speaker 1: one who knew the error of their simple creed, and
• 3:45:50
  Speaker 1: resuming his reclining attitude, he maintained it until the ceremony,
• 3:45:54
  Speaker 1: if that might be called a ceremony in which feeling
• 3:45:57
  Speaker 1: was so deeply imbued, was finished happily for the self
• 3:46:01
  Speaker 1: command of both Heyward and Monroe. They knew not the
• 3:46:04
  Speaker 1: meaning of the wild sounds they heard chingachgook was a
• 3:46:07
  Speaker 1: solitary exception to the interest manifested by the native part
• 3:46:11
  Speaker 1: of the audience. His look never changed throughout the whole
• 3:46:15
  Speaker 1: of the scene, nor did a muscle move in his
• 3:46:17
  Speaker 1: rigid countenance, even at the wildest or the most pathetic
• 3:46:20
  Speaker 1: parts of the lamentation. The cold and senseless remains of
• 3:46:24
  Speaker 1: his son was all to him, and every other sense
• 3:46:26
  Speaker 1: but that of sight, seemed frozen, in order that his
• 3:46:29
  Speaker 1: eyes might take their final gaze at those lineaments he
• 3:46:32
  Speaker 1: had so long loved, and which were now about to
• 3:46:34
  Speaker 1: be closed forever from his view. In this stage of
• 3:46:38
  Speaker 1: the obsequiz, a warrior, much renowned for deed in arms,
• 3:46:41
  Speaker 1: and more especially for services in the recent combat, a
• 3:46:44
  Speaker 1: man of stern and grave demeanor, advanced slowly from the
• 3:46:47
  Speaker 1: crowd and placed himself nigh the person of the dead.
• 3:46:51
  Speaker 1: Why hast thou left us pride of the Wapanatchki, he said,
• 3:46:56
  Speaker 1: addressing himself to the dull ears of uncas as if
• 3:46:59
  Speaker 1: the empty clay attained the faculties of the animated man.
• 3:47:02
  Speaker 1: Thy time has been like that of the sun, when
• 3:47:04
  Speaker 1: in the trees thy glory brighter than his light at noonday.
• 3:47:08
  Speaker 1: Thou art gone, youthful warrior, But a hundred wyandots are
• 3:47:11
  Speaker 1: clearing the briars from thy path to the world of
• 3:47:14
  Speaker 1: the spirits. Who that saw THEE in battle would believe
• 3:47:17
  Speaker 1: that thou couldst die? Who before THEE has ever shown
• 3:47:20
  Speaker 1: Ottawa the way into the fight? Thy feet were like
• 3:47:24
  Speaker 1: the wings of eagles, Thine arm heavier than falling branches
• 3:47:27
  Speaker 1: from the pine, and thy voice like the Manitu when
• 3:47:29
  Speaker 1: he speaks in the clouds. The tongue of Ottawa is weak,
• 3:47:33
  Speaker 1: he added, looking about him with a melancholy gaze, and
• 3:47:37
  Speaker 1: his heart exceeding heavy pride of the Wapinatchki. Why hast
• 3:47:41
  Speaker 1: thou left us? He was succeeded by others in due order,
• 3:47:45
  Speaker 1: until most of the high and gifted men of the
• 3:47:47
  Speaker 1: nation had sung or spoken their tribute of praise over
• 3:47:50
  Speaker 1: the manies of the deceased chief. When each had ended,
• 3:47:53
  Speaker 1: another deep and breathing silence reigned in all the place.
• 3:47:57
  Speaker 1: Then alow deep sound was heard, like the suppressed accompaniment
• 3:48:01
  Speaker 1: of distant music, rising just high enough on the air
• 3:48:04
  Speaker 1: to be audible, and yet so indistinctly as to leave
• 3:48:07
  Speaker 1: its character and the place. Whence it proceeded alike matters
• 3:48:10
  Speaker 1: of conjecture, It was, however, succeeded by another and another strain,
• 3:48:16
  Speaker 1: each in a higher key, until they grew on the ear,
• 3:48:19
  Speaker 1: first in long drawn and often repeated interjections, and finally
• 3:48:23
  Speaker 1: in words. The lips of Chingachgook had so far parted
• 3:48:27
  Speaker 1: as to announce that it was the monody of the Father,
• 3:48:30
  Speaker 1: though not an eye was turned toward him, nor the
• 3:48:32
  Speaker 1: smallest sign of impatience exhibited, it was apparent by the
• 3:48:36
  Speaker 1: manner in which the multitude elevated their heads to listen,
• 3:48:39
  Speaker 1: that they drank in the sounds with an intenseness of
• 3:48:41
  Speaker 1: attention that none but tain None himself, had ever before commanded.
• 3:48:46
  Speaker 1: But they listened in vain. The strains rose just so
• 3:48:50
  Speaker 1: loud as to become intelligible, and then grew fainter and
• 3:48:53
  Speaker 1: more trembling, until they finally sank on the ear, as
• 3:48:56
  Speaker 1: if borne away by a passing breath of wind. The
• 3:48:59
  Speaker 1: lips of the Sagamore closed, and he remained silent in
• 3:49:02
  Speaker 1: his seat, looking with his riveted eye and motionless form,
• 3:49:05
  Speaker 1: like some creature that had been turned from the almighty hand,
• 3:49:08
  Speaker 1: with the form but without the spirit of a man.
• 3:49:11
  Speaker 1: The Delawares, who knew by these symptoms that the mind
• 3:49:14
  Speaker 1: of their friend was not prepared for so mighty an
• 3:49:16
  Speaker 1: effort of fortitude, relaxed in their attention, and with an
• 3:49:19
  Speaker 1: innate delicacy, seemed to bestow all their thoughts on the
• 3:49:22
  Speaker 1: obsequies of the stranger maiden. A signal was given by
• 3:49:26
  Speaker 1: one of the elder chiefs to the women, who crowded
• 3:49:29
  Speaker 1: that part of the circle near which the body of
• 3:49:31
  Speaker 1: Cora Lae. Obedient to the sign, the girls raised the
• 3:49:35
  Speaker 1: bier to the elevation of their heads and advanced with
• 3:49:38
  Speaker 1: slow and regulated steps, chanting as they proceeded, another wailing
• 3:49:42
  Speaker 1: song in praise of the deceased. Gammut, who had been
• 3:49:46
  Speaker 1: a close observer of rights he deemed so heathenish, now
• 3:49:49
  Speaker 1: bent his head over the shoulder of the unconscious father, whispering.
• 3:49:53
  Speaker 1: They moved with the remains of thy child, Shall we
• 3:49:55
  Speaker 1: not follow and see them interred with Christian burial. Monroe
• 3:50:00
  Speaker 1: guarded as if the last trumpet had sounded in his ear,
• 3:50:03
  Speaker 1: and bestowing one anxious and hurried glance around him, he
• 3:50:06
  Speaker 1: arose and followed in a simple train, with the mien
• 3:50:08
  Speaker 1: of a soldier, but bearing the full burden of apparent suffering.
• 3:50:13
  Speaker 1: His friends pressed around him with a sorrow that was
• 3:50:15
  Speaker 1: too strong to be termed sympathy, even the young Frenchman
• 3:50:18
  Speaker 1: joining in the procession with the air of a man
• 3:50:20
  Speaker 1: who was sensibly touched at the early and melancholy fate
• 3:50:23
  Speaker 1: of one so lovely. But when the last and humblest
• 3:50:27
  Speaker 1: female of the tribe had joined in the wild and
• 3:50:29
  Speaker 1: yet ordered array, the men of the Lennape contracted their
• 3:50:32
  Speaker 1: circle and formed again around the person of Uncas as
• 3:50:35
  Speaker 1: silent as grave and as motionless as before. The place
• 3:50:40
  Speaker 1: which had been chosen for the grave of Cora was
• 3:50:42
  Speaker 1: a little knoll where a cluster of young and healthful
• 3:50:44
  Speaker 1: pines had taken root, forming of themselves a melancholy and
• 3:50:48
  Speaker 1: appropriate shade over the spot. On reaching it, the girls
• 3:50:52
  Speaker 1: deposited their burden and continued for many minutes, waiting with
• 3:50:55
  Speaker 1: characteristic patience and native timidity, for some evidence that they
• 3:50:59
  Speaker 1: whose feet feelings were most concerned, were content with the arrangement.
• 3:51:03
  Speaker 1: At length, the scout, who alone understood their habits, said,
• 3:51:07
  Speaker 1: in their own language, my daughters have done well. The
• 3:51:10
  Speaker 1: white men thanked them. Satisfied with this testimony in their favor,
• 3:51:15
  Speaker 1: the girls proceeded to deposit the body in a shell
• 3:51:18
  Speaker 1: ingeniously and not inelegantly, fabricated of the bark of the birch,
• 3:51:22
  Speaker 1: after which they lowered it into its dark and final abode.
• 3:51:26
  Speaker 1: The ceremony of covering the remains and concealing the marks
• 3:51:29
  Speaker 1: of the fresh earth by leaves and other natural and
• 3:51:32
  Speaker 1: customary objects was conducted with the same simple and silent forms.
• 3:51:37
  Speaker 1: But when the labors of the kind beings who had
• 3:51:39
  Speaker 1: performed these sad and friendly offices were so far completed,
• 3:51:42
  Speaker 1: they hesitated in a way to show that they knew
• 3:51:45
  Speaker 1: not how much further they might proceed. It was in
• 3:51:48
  Speaker 1: this stage of the rites that the scout again addressed them.
• 3:51:51
  Speaker 1: My young women have done enough, he said. The spirit
• 3:51:54
  Speaker 1: of the pale face has no need of food or raiment,
• 3:51:57
  Speaker 1: their gifts being according to the heaven of their color.
• 3:52:00
  Speaker 1: I see, he added, glancing an eye at David, who
• 3:52:03
  Speaker 1: was preparing his book in a manner that indicated an
• 3:52:06
  Speaker 1: intention to lead the way in sacred song that one
• 3:52:09
  Speaker 1: who better knows the Christian fashions is about to speak.
• 3:52:12
  Speaker 1: The females stood modestly aside, and from having been the
• 3:52:16
  Speaker 1: principal actors in the scene, they now became the meek
• 3:52:19
  Speaker 1: and attentive observers of that which followed during the time
• 3:52:22
  Speaker 1: David occupied in pouring out the pious feelings of his spirit.
• 3:52:25
  Speaker 1: In this manner, not a sign of surprise nor a
• 3:52:28
  Speaker 1: look of impatience escaped them. They listened like those who
• 3:52:32
  Speaker 1: knew the meaning of the strange words, and appeared as
• 3:52:35
  Speaker 1: if they felt the mingled emotions of sorrow, hope, and
• 3:52:38
  Speaker 1: resignation they were intended to convey. Excited by the scene
• 3:52:43
  Speaker 1: he had just witnessed, and perhaps influenced by his own
• 3:52:46
  Speaker 1: secret emotions, the Master of Song exceeded his usual efforts.
• 3:52:50
  Speaker 1: His full, rich voice was not found to suffer by
• 3:52:53
  Speaker 1: a comparison with the soft tones of the girls, and
• 3:52:56
  Speaker 1: his more modulated strains possessed, at least for the years
• 3:52:59
  Speaker 1: of those to whom they were peculiarly addressed, the additional
• 3:53:02
  Speaker 1: power of intelligence. He ended the anthem as he had
• 3:53:06
  Speaker 1: commenced it, in the midst of a grave and solemn stillness, When, however,
• 3:53:11
  Speaker 1: the closing cadence had fallen on the ears of his auditors.
• 3:53:14
  Speaker 1: The secret, timorous glances of the eyes and the general
• 3:53:18
  Speaker 1: and yet subdued movement of the assemblage betrayed that something
• 3:53:21
  Speaker 1: was expected from the father of the deceased, Monroe seemed
• 3:53:25
  Speaker 1: sensible that the time was come for him to exert
• 3:53:27
  Speaker 1: what is perhaps the greatest effort of which human nature
• 3:53:31
  Speaker 1: is capable. He bared his gray locks and looked around
• 3:53:35
  Speaker 1: the timid and quiet throng by which he was encircled,
• 3:53:38
  Speaker 1: with a firm and collected countenance. Then, motioning with his
• 3:53:42
  Speaker 1: hand for the scout to listen, he said, say to
• 3:53:45
  Speaker 1: these kind and gentle females that a heart broken and
• 3:53:48
  Speaker 1: failing man returns them his thanks. Tell them that the
• 3:53:52
  Speaker 1: being we all worship under different names will be mindful
• 3:53:55
  Speaker 1: of their charity, and that the time shall not be
• 3:53:57
  Speaker 1: distant when we may assemble around his throne with ould
• 3:54:00
  Speaker 1: distinction of sex, or rank or color. The scout listened
• 3:54:04
  Speaker 1: to the tremulous voice in which the veteran delivered these words,
• 3:54:07
  Speaker 1: and shook his head slowly when they were ended, as
• 3:54:10
  Speaker 1: one who doubted their efficacy. To tell them this, he said,
• 3:54:14
  Speaker 1: would be to tell them that the snows come not
• 3:54:16
  Speaker 1: in the winter, or that the sun shines fiercest when
• 3:54:19
  Speaker 1: the trees are stripped of their leaves. Then, turning to
• 3:54:22
  Speaker 1: the women, he made such a communication of the other's
• 3:54:25
  Speaker 1: gratitude as he deemed most suited to the capacities of
• 3:54:28
  Speaker 1: his listeners. The head of Monroe had already sunk upon
• 3:54:32
  Speaker 1: his chest, and he was again fast relapsing into melancholy
• 3:54:35
  Speaker 1: when the young frenchman before named venture to touch him
• 3:54:38
  Speaker 1: lightly on the elbow. As soon as he had gained
• 3:54:41
  Speaker 1: the attention of the morning old man, he pointed toward
• 3:54:44
  Speaker 1: a group of young Indians who approached with a light
• 3:54:46
  Speaker 1: but closely covered litter, and then pointed upward toward the sun.
• 3:54:51
  Speaker 1: I understand you, sir, return Monroe, with a voice of
• 3:54:54
  Speaker 1: forced firmness. I understand you. It is the will of Heaven,
• 3:54:59
  Speaker 1: and I submit Cora, my child. If the prayers of
• 3:55:03
  Speaker 1: a heart broken father could avail thee. Now, how blessed
• 3:55:07
  Speaker 1: shouldst thou be? Come, gentlemen, he added, looking about him
• 3:55:11
  Speaker 1: with an air of lofty composure, though the anguish that
• 3:55:14
  Speaker 1: quivered in his faded countenance was far too powerful to
• 3:55:17
  Speaker 1: be concealed. Our duty here is ended. Let us depart.
• 3:55:21
  Speaker 1: Heyward gladly obeyed a summons that took them from a
• 3:55:23
  Speaker 1: spot where each instant he felt his self control was
• 3:55:26
  Speaker 1: about to desert him. While his companions were mounting, however,
• 3:55:31
  Speaker 1: he found time to press the hand of the scout,
• 3:55:33
  Speaker 1: and to repeat the terms of an engagement they had
• 3:55:35
  Speaker 1: made to meet again within the posts of the British Army. Then, gladly,
• 3:55:40
  Speaker 1: throwing himself into the saddle, he spurred his charger to
• 3:55:43
  Speaker 1: the side of the litter, whence, low and stifled sobs
• 3:55:46
  Speaker 1: alone announced the presence of Alice. In this manner, the
• 3:55:50
  Speaker 1: head of Monroe again drooping on his bosom, with Heyward
• 3:55:53
  Speaker 1: and David following in sorrowing silence, and attended by the
• 3:55:56
  Speaker 1: aid of Montcalm with his guard. All the white men,
• 3:55:59
  Speaker 1: with the exception of Hawkeye, passed from before the eyes
• 3:56:02
  Speaker 1: of the Delawares, and were buried in the vast forests
• 3:56:05
  Speaker 1: of that region. But the tie which through their common
• 3:56:08
  Speaker 1: calamity had united the feelings of these simple dwellers in
• 3:56:12
  Speaker 1: the woods with the strangers who had thus transiently visited them,
• 3:56:15
  Speaker 1: was not so easily broken. Years passed away before the
• 3:56:19
  Speaker 1: traditionary tale of the white Maiden and of the young
• 3:56:22
  Speaker 1: warrior of the Mohicans ceased to beguile the long nights
• 3:56:25
  Speaker 1: and tedious marches, or to animate their youthful and brave
• 3:56:28
  Speaker 1: with a desire for vengeance. Neither were the secondary actors
• 3:56:32
  Speaker 1: in these momentous incidents forgotten. Through the medium of the scout,
• 3:56:36
  Speaker 1: who served for years afterward as a link between them
• 3:56:39
  Speaker 1: and civilized life, they learned in answer to their inquiries
• 3:56:43
  Speaker 1: that the gray Head was speedily gathered to his fathers
• 3:56:46
  Speaker 1: borne down, as was erroneously believed by his military misfortunes,
• 3:56:52
  Speaker 1: and that the open hand had conveyed his surviving daughter
• 3:56:55
  Speaker 1: far into the settlements of the pale faces, where her
• 3:56:57
  Speaker 1: tears had at last ceased to flow, and had been
• 3:57:00
  Speaker 1: succeeded by the bright smiles, which were better suited to
• 3:57:02
  Speaker 1: her joyous nature. But these were events of a time
• 3:57:06
  Speaker 1: later than that which concerns our tale. Deserted by all
• 3:57:10
  Speaker 1: of his color, Hawkeye returned to the spot where his
• 3:57:12
  Speaker 1: sympathies led him with a force that no ideal bond
• 3:57:15
  Speaker 1: of union could destroy. He was just in time to
• 3:57:19
  Speaker 1: catch a parting look of the features of Uncas, whom
• 3:57:21
  Speaker 1: the Delawares were already enclosing in his last vestment of skins.
• 3:57:26
  Speaker 1: They paused to permit the longing and lingering gaze of
• 3:57:28
  Speaker 1: the sturdy woodsman, and when it was ended, the body
• 3:57:31
  Speaker 1: was enveloped never to be unclosed again. Then came a
• 3:57:35
  Speaker 1: procession like the other, and the whole nation was collected
• 3:57:38
  Speaker 1: about the temporary grave of the Chief, temporary because it
• 3:57:42
  Speaker 1: was proper that at some future day his bones should
• 3:57:45
  Speaker 1: rest among those of his own people. The movement, like
• 3:57:48
  Speaker 1: the feeling, had been simultaneous and general. The same grave
• 3:57:53
  Speaker 1: expression of grief, the same rigid silence, and the same
• 3:57:56
  Speaker 1: deference to the principal mourner were observed around the place
• 3:57:59
  Speaker 1: of any terment. As had been already described, the body
• 3:58:03
  Speaker 1: was deposited in an attitude of repose, facing the rising sun,
• 3:58:07
  Speaker 1: with the implements of war and of the chase at hand,
• 3:58:10
  Speaker 1: in readiness for the final journey. An opening was left
• 3:58:13
  Speaker 1: in the shell, by which it was protected from the soil,
• 3:58:16
  Speaker 1: for the spirit to communicate with its earthly tenement when necessary,
• 3:58:20
  Speaker 1: and the whole was concealed from the instinct and protected
• 3:58:23
  Speaker 1: from the ravages of the beasts of prey, with an
• 3:58:25
  Speaker 1: ingenuity peculiar to the natives. The manual rites then ceased,
• 3:58:30
  Speaker 1: and all present reverted to the more spiritual part of
• 3:58:32
  Speaker 1: the ceremonies. Chingachgook became once more the object of the
• 3:58:37
  Speaker 1: common attention. He had not yet spoken, and something consolatory
• 3:58:41
  Speaker 1: and instructive was expected from so renowned a chief on
• 3:58:44
  Speaker 1: an occasion of such interest. Conscious of the wishes of
• 3:58:48
  Speaker 1: the people, the stern and self restrained warrior raised his face,
• 3:58:52
  Speaker 1: which had latterly been buried in his robe, and looked
• 3:58:55
  Speaker 1: about him with a steady eye. His firmly compressed and
• 3:58:58
  Speaker 1: expressive lips then sever and for the first time during
• 3:59:01
  Speaker 1: the long ceremonies, his voice was distinctly audible. Why do
• 3:59:05
  Speaker 1: my brothers mourn, he said, regarding the dark race of
• 3:59:09
  Speaker 1: dejected warriors by whom he was environed. Why do my
• 3:59:12
  Speaker 1: daughters weep that a young man has gone to the
• 3:59:15
  Speaker 1: happy hunting grounds, That a chief has filled his time
• 3:59:18
  Speaker 1: with honor. He was good, he was dutiful, he was brave.
• 3:59:24
  Speaker 1: Who can deny it? The Manitou had need of such
• 3:59:27
  Speaker 1: a warrior, and he has called him away. As for me,
• 3:59:31
  Speaker 1: the son and the father of Uncas, I am a
• 3:59:33
  Speaker 1: blazed pine in a clearing of the pale faces. My
• 3:59:37
  Speaker 1: race has gone from the shores of the Salt Lake
• 3:59:39
  Speaker 1: and the hills of the Delawares. But who can say
• 3:59:43
  Speaker 1: that the serpent of his tribe has forgotten his wisdom.
• 3:59:46
  Speaker 1: I am alone. No, No, cried Hawkeye, who had been
• 3:59:50
  Speaker 1: gazing with a yearning look at the rigid features of
• 3:59:52
  Speaker 1: his friend with something like his own self command, but
• 3:59:55
  Speaker 1: whose philosophy could endure no longer. No, Sagamore, not alone.
• 4:00:00
  Speaker 1: The gifts of our colors may be different, but God
• 4:00:03
  Speaker 1: has so placed us as to journey in the same path.
• 4:00:07
  Speaker 1: I have no kin, and I may also say, like you,
• 4:00:10
  Speaker 1: no people. He was your son and a red skin
• 4:00:13
  Speaker 1: by nature, and it may be that your blood was nearer.
• 4:00:16
  Speaker 1: But if ever I forget the lad who has so
• 4:00:19
  Speaker 1: often fowed at my side in war and slept at
• 4:00:21
  Speaker 1: my side in peace, may he who made us all,
• 4:00:24
  Speaker 1: whatever may be our color or our gifts, forget me.
• 4:00:28
  Speaker 1: The boy has left us for a time. But Sagamore,
• 4:00:31
  Speaker 1: you are not alone. Illustration Chingachgok grasped the hand that,
• 4:00:36
  Speaker 1: in the warmth of feeling the scout had stretched across
• 4:00:39
  Speaker 1: the fresh earth, and in an attitude of friendship, these
• 4:00:42
  Speaker 1: two sturdy and intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while
• 4:00:45
  Speaker 1: scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of
• 4:00:49
  Speaker 1: Uncas like drops of falling rain in the midst of
• 4:00:52
  Speaker 1: the awful stillness with which such a burst of feeling,
• 4:00:55
  Speaker 1: coming as it did from the two most renowned warriors
• 4:00:58
  Speaker 1: of that region, was received, tam Nun lifted his voice
• 4:01:01
  Speaker 1: to disperse the multitude. It is enough, he said, go,
• 4:01:07
  Speaker 1: children of the Lenape. The anger of the Manitou is
• 4:01:09
  Speaker 1: not done. Why should Teynan stay. The pale faces are
• 4:01:14
  Speaker 1: masters of the earth, and the time of the red
• 4:01:16
  Speaker 1: men has not yet come again. My day has been
• 4:01:20
  Speaker 1: too long. In the morning I saw the suns of Unamus,
• 4:01:23
  Speaker 1: happy and strong. And yet before the night has come
• 4:01:27
  Speaker 1: have I lived to see the last warrior of the
• 4:01:29
  Speaker 1: wise race of the Mohicans. The end. Thanks for listening
• 4:01:33
  Speaker 1: this fabulous audiobook.