Beadle's Dime Novels No. 98 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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THE PEQUOD EMBASSY. " 11 momentary fear his presence created, a he looked steadily _ at the Governor. | “The chiefs of the Pequods are here,” anid he. “ They have come from the far land of the Pequiods; because the old father sent for them. The Pequods have learned to:reverence gray hairs, and they have come at the call of the gray head: Has. the old father any thing to say ?” “ Who: is a that speaks 2 said Winslow. “ He should have a name.” “ Mennawan is the brother of a head sachem oft the Pequod nation. When he rises to speak in tlieir councils; the old men listen'to his words. »The Narragansetts know him. They have heard his voice upon the war-path, and when he walks the woods, they hide from himin~ the caves. The Mohegans, who are dogs and the sons of dogs, gga aut the naine of Mennawan.” 1 “Tt is well,” said Winslow. “We are very glad that so great. a chief as Mennawan has come, for we have some- thing to say which he must ring in the ears of his brother The “En@lish would be at. peace with the Pequods. All men are brothers.” .“ How ? sdid the chief. “Is not my skin red ?” » No»man knew better than Winslow how to deal with a proud chief, and his answer was apt: _ ‘*My red brother is right. My skin is white and his is red. But what of that? The blood of my heart is as red as the chief's.” ! | 3 Mennawan. bowed in silence. “The old father has spoken well, and Mennawan is now sure that all men should be brothers. The Pequods will be so to the white men.” “Do brothers turn the edge bic the hatchet see each Other?” | | ‘““Who have Sitesi so { ” | “The Pequods have been upon the war-path: Two men were sent into the country of the Pequods. They went»to get fur, and were willing to sell powder and shot for it; They never came back ; has my brother heard of these men?” ° “Mermawan is not a liar. He has heard that such men came into the land of the Pequods. He spoke to them him- self, and bade them not stay in the land of the Pequods. The - connicloooks.comn