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this desirable object, although they were greater and more 

 brave than 1, yet were they killed by those whom they came to 

 conciliate, and why shall not I share their fate; if so, my bones 

 will bleach near theirs. If, on the contrary, I should escape 

 death, I will visit the bones of my friends. The oldest of my 

 followers here, was father-in-law to the chief of those slaugh- 

 tered messengers; he is poor and infirm, and has followed 

 me with difficulty; his relatives, also, are poor, and have been 

 long lamenting the loss of the chief you killed. I hope you 

 will have pity on him, and give him a pair of mockasins 

 ("meaning a horse) to return home with, for he cannot walk. 

 Two or three others of my companions, are also in want of 

 mockasins for their journey homeward. 



" My friends! we wish for peace, and we are tired of war; 

 there is a large tract of country, intervening between us, from 

 which, as it is so constantly traversed by our respective hostile 

 parties, we cannot either of us kill the game in security, to 

 furnish our traders with peltries. I wish to see a large level 

 road over that country, connecting our villages together, 

 near which no one can conceal himself in order >to kill pas- 

 sengers, and that our squaws may be enabled to visit from 

 village to village in safety, and not be urged by fear, to 

 cast off their packs, and betake themselves tc the thickets, 

 when they see any person on the route. Our nations have 

 made peace frequently, but a peace has not hitherto been of 

 long duration. I hope, however, that which we shall now 

 establish will continue one day, two days, three days, four 

 days, five days. My friends! what I have told you is true; 

 I was not sent here to tell you lies. That is all 1 have to 

 say." 



Herochshe then lit his pipe, and presented the stem to the 

 brother of the Crenier, Wa-sac-a-ru-ja, or He who eats raw, 

 who had formerly been his intimate friend. The latter held 

 the end of the stem in his hand, whilst he looked Herochshe 

 full in the face, for a considerable space of time. At length 



