Never did I see her face before this day. She came into
the prairies because they had told her a great and generous nation
called the Dahcotahs lived there, and she wished to look on men. The
women of the pale-faces, like the women of the Siouxes, open their
eyes to see things that are new; but she is poor, like myself, and she
will want corn and buffaloes, if you take away the little that she and
her friend still have."
"My ears listen to many wicked lies!" exclaimed the Teton warrior, in
a voice so stern that it startled even his red auditors. "Am I a
woman? Has not a Dahcotah eyes? Tell me, white hunter; who are the men
of your colour, that sleep near the fallen trees?"
As he spoke, the indignant chief pointed in the direction of Ishmael's
encampment, leaving the trapper no reason to doubt, that the superior
industry and sagacity of this man had effected a discovery, which had
eluded the search of the rest of his party. Notwithstanding his regret
at an event that might prove fatal to the sleepers, and some little
vexation at having been so completely outwitted, in the dialogue just
related, the old man continued to maintain his air of inflexible
composure.
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