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AMERICAN HOSPITALITY. Matters had reached this point at the moment when the story we have undertaken to tell, begins: now that we have supplied these indispensable explanations, we will take up our n…
THE SHE-WOLF OF THE PRAIRIES. About four or five hours after the various events we have described in the previous chapters, a horseman, mounted on a powerful steed, caparisoned in the Indian fashion,…
THE INDIAN VILLAGE. Now that the exigencies of our story compel us to enter into closer relations with the Prairie Indians, we will introduce to the reader the primitive population of that territory,…
THE RECEPTION. Like all the centres of Indian population near the American clearings, the Kenha village was more like a fort than an open town. As we said before, the Kenhas had only a short time pre…
THE WHITE BUFFALO. So soon as Natah Otann emerged from the cabin into which he had conducted the Count, he proceeded towards the hut inhabited by White Buffalo. The night was beginning to fall; the K…
THE SPY. The pistol shot fired by the White Buffalo had not quite produced the result the latter expected from it. The man was wounded; but the haste with which the chief had been obliged to fire, in…
FORT MACKENZIE. Fort Mackenzie, built in 1832 by Major Mitchell, Chief Agent to the North American Fur Company, stands like a menacing sentry, about one hundred and twenty paces from the north bank o…
A MOTHER'S CONFESSION. "It is just seventeen years ago, you will remember, Harry; you had recently received your commission as lieutenant in the army; you were young, enthusiastic; the futu…
THE CHASE. When Natah Otann entered the lodge inhabited by the white men, under pretext of warning them to prepare for the chase, his searching eye in a few seconds had explored every corner of the b…
INDIAN DIPLOMACY. Natah Otann feigned not to have perceived the Count's smile. "Now that you have recovered," he said to Prairie-Flower, in a gentler tone than he at first assumed towa…
