Beadle's Dime Novels No. 142: The Sagamore of Saco — page 79: what you’re looking at

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sagamore declared the omens were for good, and directed. start upon their way. At once the two bnaeivest were to be seen threading their way to the river-side, where the canoes were manned. Here we must leave them, now hugging the shore to avoid observation, and now boldly breastin the waters of the stormy sea. Headlands were crossed, not doubled, the warriors shouldering the canoes at “ carrying-places, ” which greatly abridged the er the hazards, and the labors of the way. CHAPTER XVIII. SNAKE VS. SPIDER. ACASHEE, astute, cautious, and devoid of all was not without a certain natural power over her tribe, which | her with some degree of religious awe, inferior in ex- = but not unakin to that which leut a halo to the brow of ines. Acashee was skillful in all the incantations, dances, and ma- gic of her people, and did not scruple to work upon their ter- rors, or to turn all their faith in her to her own account. ‘The chamber under the great falls was a secret from the people at large, being used mostly for re purposes arin periods of _— extremity as a last rallying point o of the tribe; hence, comparatively few were acquainted with the place of retreat of Acashee, when she retired from the coun- cil, and waved back the women who would have importuned ieetoente under the jutti ater, sl er the jutting w she arose in a go ous reom, hung with pendents of crystal, and furnished mith sacred altars, fashioned in the long by that instinct of nature which leads her to indicate in solitary grottos and ovyer- hanging woods that intuitive need of worship which is the characteristic of our humanity, even in its rudest shape. Prominent ne la this vast chamber was the stone of sacrifice, and a caldron, which told pisinly:| its use to immo- late human beings, for stains of a, flecked bere and there the whiteness of the to feast hereyes enn ee ms sie harmo- Lem Smee Sahel ap Bolte vin Intent upon Meee Sree all those gentler emotions ened ciation to the sex, ne at the same time they pre- achievement, she stood w l Soar tga teapot Already she belield the object sree ue: conmicbooks.comn «