Show EM W FW raal HOWDEN SMITH 1 I AUTHOR of PORTO BELLO GOLD elc el C S 9 ar 3 t CHAPTER VII continued one edep for forward Nvard us an we 11 he took malted and till ilij right alt ar arin went up lu in he be graceful erace ful iroku iroquois salute quit tn wan tie ne arst ars 1 lit hla s voice out dut you are welcome dionio 1 my nopil W I 1 can cil iee ee that you ilive jve kieen brave against dinst our ene enemies niles or 11 cn rry y a etring of sn lph oy lit your 11 belt I 1 can call fife bee that you ou have been honored lo nored for coriner walks I 1 with you cull can see eee talat you ou have been ile ell fortunate fot white man walks beside or a on oil aho vho hus 1 in ills his face entimio En Er lter tiTiO my illy nephew with your white W ve lle eager to hear ear of 0 your experiences will and the deeds you ou havo have done Jr critel lint itel crl lip turned on oil ills hta heel beel inid and walked before iii and it those who had donled fell luto into single tile behind us so we paraded through tile vil 11 ll jage age or rattier rather I 1 should pay s lly town for it contained ninny any thousand until we re readied belied it house in the center burned burl the tribal council fire I nd ind where ambassadors and austin 1 ts were eie 10 lo lodged Iod d 4 ged e 1 rile roy loi nii an elis und and elders ij mid into it nt our heels and arranged A round around lit tile alre in tile cen tir then squads squaws fetched fet clied in clay admies iles of nonty and vegetables of sev Ir ri its well us ni fruit which ailcy fit dava tit ill intervals around tile tho clr cir dr lipitt at t a from do ne hu fia ali everybody began to eat eai euch each one dipping lipp ilig ins ills lingers fingers into whichever adish was ivare or alost to ills ilia liking but sit all by bythe the utmost deference renco loi sarti HIP wishes aslies ls lies of tile their ir at the ali of tile the meal do virlio sa ga well lighted a ceremonial idile carved of soapstone with a ion wooden io ciden mouthpiece decorated with lieada and small dinall bright colored feath ira as lie ilo iliew lihew one oile toward the ground Krou iid our one aliff toward tile hie sky aud anti HIP alie tufui d aall of the four quarterma qu artera 1 ilien ann lie ile passed it to ta wan ne ars ara on oil liin js rit right liend and ta wan ne arn rely litif bulted fed it for it a moment and liander it to me I 1 did likewise and we guie it to tn curtner Cor laer who handed it on to 10 tile next nian man and so it went tile the munds of the lire fire I there wits a moments sl sli leuce euce and men him TI td ann ne ars ara began the account of if ilk hl travels tr isela speaking slowly and willious willi out oratorical effects effect afta erward liv toll told me lilt what amt lie he and tile tha 1 anil nd idd ile ho made no references t to 0 mission but lie he described fits jour air it in new york ills interview with i en s ii i i ago a go this impressed lilii ills 11 lice and they applauded li it i islon of guttural grunts ix 1114 with me the arrival of Hi irin and ie de jeulle and its mean it 1119 K our journey lioni hor eward neward and tile the 11 1111 li tie lie there was it pause then io do ne lio ho rewis rose we v hank you iou 0 tny my nephew nep liew hu I mid lid you hava indeed honored lio nored us II I ini 11 I yourself and your white friends bare themselves to be tt brave aru now we will retire so that you iou liiv fasl lit out and the others othera fol 1 ed what tini biet I 1 asked ns as tawan ta tn wan bais mi filled tits his pipe alir Selle IKC ell U olli tied noon we shall have it real talk lie wd fil and reit ched for it a live coal ah hoier pasted und I 1 began to ao till ault my friends rl enda wisdom nf I 1 wui 1 l imil tired fired bui lit in tile event I 1 was i fo for r a shadow li adow darkened lilt tralice Vil and the guardian of ill thu W itt Q ra ii buor stood before us ile hr sill ill between ta wan ne urs ars and we ind alid cri timm d tobacco into tits ills pipe pape W 1 iii tire not 0 my lily he commented WO we hilve have that upon our mandi ieli which will mill not let us its steel answered bif tills conversation wits win ain for rue roe later by tawan ne hiir airs it p ease ise the weight on your 1 it col ilIde your troubles lit in chilt i iiii is my lily thought 0 uncle ill lit liou ho go weli weh howd bowed gravely to lilt fill lit u 1 iuis IN me open lie 11 in IV anns ill 14 it P bisp alid ta wan n alls inn dim ai tits pipe upon the floor As MII know 0 my illy till uncle cle lie hei bei 1 I mant plit will Cor corlzer liter to tit aen ien a i en Mv irio to tell him hill af to imald it 11 stone fort nt at Ji jueri igara lit ill saule iuni nay lay canto camo tills war 1111 1 r whom imn i call lily y brother iner 1 lint flint had defeated derea ted KO before kweli hii I 1 in i lit raday al rK 14 day camu tit ohp I 1 A malt Who lolice cB llad for a willie akst us shim you win wilt remember i ici lillish of tile the roy ati behs ih fit i ted for one brief in lv a anve rl of passion nic mir r him lie if imply ylla ullo coines from froin a tor for tile i my illy icicle kiil lp up ile and n work together tori to defeat 1 na bui drive tile the froidl tile hn gaii rugo rago ru ra go tills lias sent lily iiii brother Ort ormerod nerod who lina has lived t the french kranch and speaks alie their lr to tongue lIgue to t i py out tile hie ground tit nt cagara jl I no go with win him after that lint it if we v may amy we blell suck ok the moat doom trail und cleall out tile lie dog dof R hiir live ini do done ne ho gai beti smoked in ill sl SlI leute ence thun then he emptied ills hn pipe 1 I ain glad lint ua en awa gwa rugo ra ro keeps his ts eyen open 0 my illy nephew lie said do you wish my illy 1 tn ta wan no ars liah elieud the ill messes nou ou met inet on tile the mohawk told you iu that ie was vas lit in trouble I 1 do not think word wold ut of tills this cull et lauve hiie reli ched sly advice IB 18 that yuu dress dicas yourself its im u i warrior 0 aly liay nep liew mid nd that your white biotti cr r call himself by it french wiltie name then thel tile two of you till buny go to till ind 1 I t iby tant you have just come collie front from le lc de troll and haid give liliu hini the lie news newa und mid lie he will 1 litake inako you boll wac tile yo so you iou antly spy out lits uto ut lagara tit in ass ehtel corlzer in ili english flat Is a boodt plan you it n boodt plan for a fox us like Jone Jonca alre lre fly by I 1 hope you ion fool ahu andt andl bring home ills hla scalp tile news which gu ga en cn ava ra riago go asks anska for will be sufficient rolled tn tit ife ars 0 tny illy uncle no M ion now we may steel sleep with ease that W 1 well the roy an eli ch rasing lie he lifted ills arm in salute albiny ila iia wen ne yu tile alio kreut 1 reat spirit and the lie ho no elle che no iio kell keli ills invisible aids have hae you ou lit in their keeping C hafter trapped it was a week before we left den de n 0 min on gai n and although the dalny irked ine it could not le ile avoided for tile the prolonged absence of tn ta wanne ann aie ars from ills his vo pot st as warden of tit the e western mor of the long llouis allous hall had permitted lilt HII of questions eions of political anti and villi military tary imbor tance which required ills attention he spent the lie days either in consultation with till roy tin on achs anti and chiefs chief and delegations negations from froin neighboring artles tribes or in inspecting the marches corlzer departed with it hand of nf braves upon it hun tInge trip rip hut but I 1 availed my self f of the lie opportunity to gain nn lin in ill into inan the v workings or kings of the remarkable confederacy which held the he balance of power lit in A america one or of ta wan ne ars first acts was aras to organize n war party to harry the lie Ilal lils in for tin an attach upon it a V village of the in tile lie alley valley who were nere subject to tile alic jurisdiction of tile the Le league aglie it wits was till intent of tile lie founders to prevent present quarrels ali amongst longst tile the live anve nation who formed tile the llo ho de no sau pau nee explained tn wan ne nc ars lie ile for corp we hullt built the long Ll we fought constantly amongst our ourselves selve afterward we fought only and Ie because caust we were united we always won ii our wars lusted lasted tor for ninny many years cars and now that ant we tire HIO HI O r trong tind atul only white dinha inha can venture to oppose our war parile panics 4 we tight for not nothing hInt more inore than the tm right to impose peare peace upon other nolier nt lier if at nation makes trouble for or in it too we ve hul jill rille it jig as we lid did the it if it i nation Is in ill as were the lie lit in lle ile south smith and nd they fill ap ht it 11 w we akk lieal it t its s for aid ve me give tho ill ft tum billip lilt tin tile league be 1 ue ause I lint tile best beat wily way we could them Agal against list alo whom I 1 asked innocently Agal list tile hie white wall lie mi ill rother brother down lit in the he aye ae ewel iw cred el colonies the whit men ell hunger for fol land lid just ns its they do here in new aorl when an indian tribe Is th weak as were lilt w bilte men illen thrive it h before fore when it i tribe tilbe 1 ls 14 like allf ll 11 n dign 1 no or ourselves it can resist for n 1 fit fell III stil stilvel vil and his fits eyes gowd moo into tin the kinoko of the council arr re why ilo do you yon say gay for ifor it time linns I 1 ash ed Ilea lle misi uso I 1 menn it lie he retorted fler fiercely cely today the indian Is still str iong lie litis lina the tie protection of the forest the white man gian foolishly has iven illin runs guns to tight with und anti steel axes nd knives hut tile the iddinn grows weaker tile the while man grows stronger r lit in the lie tend ml the indian must go ilo glnn leaned il forward until its hla fave fact was aln v t mine when all else anlis the white man will use firewater fire tire water what you call rum and th alie french call brandy the red man cannot resist it it rullis bulna him alt lie ile lie comes ii red lint ilu would not lint let lei tile me speak and your told tile me I 1 alist bellevo lit in their godt god I 1 ile he went oil mi acorn fully aa A sod jod who permits while title men aiu o it 10 10 lo do things tile god od of the indians forbids I 1 salato them no I 1 nin am nn indian A goell in I 1 unit la Is dietter than u good while nuin bilat lie ie Is a heller better christian its jou ion call lt ft and between bad Ind indians lans and bad white nien inen thore la Is only a difference in ill kinda of evil the next lily day we started upon tile the march to heini hi ini we had not gone very verj fir iton the hr morning of nf the second adny ny of our journey when I 1 imana henn to bear alint lint like it u roars conr not of thU laft but tile ollow liiK of if soine ni iti onster whose breath could rum ruffle tile die of the forest tawan ta tn wan aie its at my lily obvious he wildet incur illean tile the rolco of fit the great falls falla brother lie said tile the thunder witter noes water biake that boisel I 1 ex Nii thing but anter 1 inao athle so many have sald and indeed the told nip me owns orle one of the alie greatest wonders 4 of the world in ili tile the birly afternoon noon a nilst mist appeared over liang ing the treetops on tile the horizon and shot with gorgeous oun rainbows the volume of noise increased whon n we stepped front from the trees and the plin oraina op 0 hie eat bract iny lievore us it vast wall of water alint swirled and smoked 1 I ind and losset turned fumed lit in tit on endl endless erks fight for arc I 1 was wall amazed stag gared by the alie magnitude of tile spec bacle I 1 stumbled beldina ta walt maimu cle airs into the trull trall or if tile lie portage which led around the lie MIN callies and roods wore vere transported fly by this route front from tile lie lilke to tile the luke lake of the edlef whence poured tills this end endless lesSi st stream it wits it main traveled road between the french posts lit in canada anti their ting it in the further faither wilderness WH ive followed it northeastward until twilight tile the roar of the falls gradet lilly shing behind us and balile calile nt at into tin in open space upon the banks of tile swift river which carried the shattered waters into ill alio laev inep close to the stood it flagstaff and from its summit loafed floated the white ensign of france at the foot p of vin this WIT ns as if I 1 cure under the folds of tile alio flag rose ile hie walls wall j of n substantial log lo 10 it ij waa tj t collection of smaller lints buts and lodges of bark A large inure stout inan with very greasy lanky alk liala balled lii front from the log loe house us ns we applon cried clied hold I 1 ill lie shmil eAl in french win comes colnes so fi free ee from the lie westward without codou or fur packs p icks A poor nilar miserable able easeal if it forest runner I 1 called lack back gayly and who alin might binl lit this ON poor floor aniser able rascal of it forest runner be lie demanded dennin ded aliese tese tire are the lie kings grounds and we must know who comes coines and goes mon dieul 1 I 1 appealed oppen led in fit binock consternation to tho stars allut hut it Is it a hard ninn to donl deal with will yon tiny linan an all objection mon monsieur slur to the camp of belill none in ili the world lean lin ile iv turned arr promptly if you oil allive your trading W permit with you hut but who la 14 1 tile lie good 1 with you nobody lind told tile me anything of a trading permit and I 1 fought for ahne you ya call lint good with justice justic ily the wily way what Is your lif fille iliev I llev rall rail nn me 10 c lit lie said mild with a tra truce ce or f grimness 1 fort de ma vie alos been ie for very atry dinall r F hurp how flow Is bilat lie he asked all but alint la is it title I 1 eat cannot inot he be llevat it anuw arn am I 1 lit in very truth on 1 toll soil mcp more this 1111 Is tile lie magazin Mac aln floyal lie he rf re turned AM AH for french foil oll mon inon lira braaf vp I 1 ILI not fee ef low flow you could dinv inv beebi off it TO BK BE |