This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...at Glenn's Cataract. The taunt of Uncas is in allusion to one of the Huron warriors who had taken his station in the upper branches of a tree, to shoot from thence upou their encampment, and who had been dislodged by one of their rifles, and dropped dead into the river. "Chingachyook.--'Let the Mingo women go weep over ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...at Glenn's Cataract. The taunt of Uncas is in allusion to one of the Huron warriors who had taken his station in the upper branches of a tree, to shoot from thence upou their encampment, and who had been dislodged by one of their rifles, and dropped dead into the river. "Chingachyook.--'Let the Mingo women go weep over their slain! The great snake of the Mohicans has coiled himself in their wigwam, and has poisoned their triumph with the wailings of children whose fathers have not returned. Eleven warriors lie hid far from the graves of their tribes since the snows have melted; and none will tell where to find them when the tongue of Chingachgook shall be silent. Let them draw the sharpest knife, and whirl the swiftest tomahawk, for their bitterest enemy is in their hands. Uncas, my boy, topmost branch of a noble trunk, call on the cowards to hasten, or their hearts will soften, and they will change to women!' "' They look among the fish for their dead!' returned the low, soft voice of the youthful chieftain. 'The Hurons float with the slimy eels; they drop from the oak like fruit that is ready to be eaten: and the Delawares laugh." Charlevoix relates that an Indian of the Ottogami, or Fox tribe, was tortured by the Illinois. After loading them with all the insults he could think of, he looked round, and saw among their number a Frenchman from Canada, whom he knew. He called out to him to " assist the Illinois in tormenting him."--"And why should I assist them?" cried the Frenchman. "That I may have the coinfort of dying by the hands of a Man," said the prisoner; "my greatest grief is that I never killed a Man." Here an Illinois interrupted him, and said that he had killed such and such persons, naming ...
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