"
"Ay, this is a more comfortable and a more humble faith than that
which yonder heartless Teton harbours. There is something in these
Loups which opens my inmost heart to them; they seem to have the
courage, ay, and the honesty, too, of the Delawares of the hills. And
this lad--it is wonderful, it is very wonderful; but the age, and the
eye, and the limbs are as if they might have been brothers! Tell me,
Pawnee, have you ever in your traditions heard of a mighty people who
once lived on the shores of the Salt-lake, hard by the rising sun?"
"The earth is white, by people of the colour of my father."
"Nay, nay, I speak not now of any strollers, who have crept into the
land to rob the lawful owners of their birth-right, but of a people
who are, or rather were, what with nature and what with paint, red as
the berry on the bush."
"I have heard the old men say, that there were bands, who hid
themselves in the woods under the rising sun, because they dared not
come upon the open prairies to fight with men.
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