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But as if to furnish some offset to this solitary
submission to a womanish vanity, they were fearfully fringed, from the
gartered knee to the bottom of the moccasin, with the hair of human
scalps. He leaned lightly with one hand on a short hickory bow, while
the other rather touched than sought support, from the long, delicate
handle of an ashen lance. A quiver made of the cougar skin, from which
the tail of the animal depended, as a characteristic ornament, was
slung at his back, and a shield of hides, quaintly emblazoned with
another of his warlike deeds, was suspended from his neck by a thong
of sinews.
As the trapper approached, this warrior maintained his calm upright
attitude, discovering neither an eagerness to ascertain the character
of those who advanced upon him, nor the smallest wish to avoid a
scrutiny in his own person. An eye, that was darker and more shining
than that of the stag, was incessantly glancing, however, from one to
another of the stranger party, seemingly never knowing rest for an
instant.


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