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successively, then towards heaven, and the earth, after which 

 he stretched out his arm, with the palm of the hand towards 

 the members of the council, moving round with his body 

 so as to present the palm towards each of the members in 

 succession. He then proceeded to shake each individual by 

 the hand, after which he returned to his place, and renewed 

 the motion of the hand as before. 



Having performed all these introductory formalities, he 

 stood firm and erect, though perfectly easy and unconstrain- 

 ed, and with a bold expression of countenance, loud voice, 

 and emphatical gesticulation, he thus addressed the council. 



" Fathers, brothers, chiefs, warriors, and brave men. You 

 are all great men. I am a poor obscure individual. It has, 

 however, become my duty to inform you that the chiefs and 

 warriors of my nation, sometime ago, held a council for the 

 purpose of concerting measures, to terminate amicably, the 

 cruel and unwelcome war, that has so long existed between 

 us, and chose me, all insignificant as I am, to bring to you 

 this pipe which I hold in my hand. I have visited your 

 village, that we might all smoke from the same pipe, and 

 eat from the same bowl, with the same spoon, in token of our 

 future union in friendship. 



" On approaching your village, my friends and relatives, 

 I thought I had not long to live. I expected that you would 

 kill me, and these poor men who have followed me. But I 

 received encouragement from the reflection, that if it should 

 be my fate to die to day, I would not have to die to-morrow, 

 and I relied firmly upon the Master of Life. 



" Nor was this anticipation of death unwarranted by pre- 

 cedent. You may recollect that five winters ago, six war- 

 riors of my nation come to you, as I have now done, and 

 that you killed them all, but one, who had the good for- 

 tune to escape. This circumstance was vivid in my memory 

 when I yesterday viewed your village in the distance; said I, 

 those warriors who preceded me in the attempt to accomplish 



