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"And warriors are going up the Long-river, to see that they have not
been cheated, in what they have bought?"
"Ay, that is partly true, too, I fear; and it will not be long before
an accursed band of choppers and loggers will be following on their
heels, to humble the wilderness which lies so broad and rich on the
western banks of the Mississippi, and then the land will be a peopled
desert, from the shores of the main sea to the foot of the Rocky
Mountains; fill'd with all the abominations and craft of man, and
stript of the comforts and loveliness it received from the hands of
the Lord!"
"And where were the chiefs of the Pawnee-Loups, when this bargain was
made?" suddenly demanded the youthful warrior, a look of startling
fierceness gleaming, at the same instant, athwart his dark visage. "Is
a nation to be sold like the skin of a beaver?"
"Right enough--right enough, and where were truth and honesty, also?
But might is right, according to the fashions of the 'arth; and what
the strong choose to do, the weak must call justice.


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