Beadle's Dime Novels No. 98 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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14) RUTH HARLAND. Captain Mason; who, understood the ‘language of the, Pequods, translated the articles. for the benefit of the chiefs, who listened with great attention to the statement.,,. When it was finished, the three gravely. gave their assent. through Mennawan, who had acted as;spokesman throughout; »;,. , “The chiefs haye heard the words of. wisdom which are; set down upon the talking-paper.. They are glad to do some- thing for their white friends, and what they ask. is only just. The men who have killed the Yengees are no longer the friends of the Pequods. We will send braves into the woods, who will find them in the holes into which they have crawled for shelter.. »- We will bring them bound to the gray head. Is it not well said, chiefs of the Pequods ?” ) “Tt is well!” said. Wequash, one of the chiefs. . _. “The words of Mennawan have found a way into the heart of Imbotam. He is a chief of the Pequods. It is well,” answered the other. «: “My father -will give this talking-paper to the.chiefs. They will carry it to the tribe, and every sachem will put his mark upon it,’ said: Mennawan. : bed Winslow handed him the paper. He folded it up and put it in his bosom. | | “There is a little more to say,’ said Mennawan. .“'The Narragansetts have been the enemies of the Pequods. But Miantonomah, chief of the Narragansetts, is;no longer so, since he has smoked: a, pipe with the Yengees. ‘Let.me go, then, and find the chief, that I may smoke a pipe in the name of my people.” “ Ugh !” said Wequash ; ft; this is: good. +4 ame other chief signified his assent. “ Miantonomah is here,” said a stern Voice. | ‘Let Menna- ‘wan look him in the face.” As he spoke, the great head of the Narragansett nation stepped. out in front of the rest and regarded his former enemy with fixed earnestness. . Mennawan returned his gaze... The chief of the Narragansetts was a noble type of ‘his race; de- scended from that Carionicus who held power when the Eng- ish landed at "Plymouth. This haughty chief. sent, asa declaration of war, ‘o the Governor, Bradford, a bundle of arrows wrapped in rattlesnake skin. The Governor filled: the comicbooks.conn