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He had
heard of a great council, at which the Menahashah, or Long-knives, and
the Washsheomantiqua, or Spaniards, had smoked together, when the
latter had sold to the former their incomprehensible rights over those
vast regions, through which his nation had roamed, in freedom, for so
many ages. His simple mind had not been able to embrace the reasons
why one people should thus assume a superiority over the possessions
of another, and it will readily be perceived, that at the hint just
received from the trapper, he was not indisposed to fancy that some of
the hidden subtilty of that magical influence, of which he was so firm
a believer, was about to be practised by the unsuspecting subject of
their conversation, in furtherance of these mysterious claims.
Abandoning, therefore, all the reserve and dignity of his manner,
under the conscious helplessness of ignorance, he turned to the old
man, and stretching forth his arms, as if to denote how much he lay at
his mercy, he said--
"Let my father look at me.


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