Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-06-20
From the Knckerbocker for juno.
THE HUI ME- IL |;
OR AN INDIAN TALE.
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sometimes be exalted TO height that made
him perfectly reckless Of dangers aud obsta-
Giles. The fit was on him now, as he paced
along the narrow beach of wet sand. In the
wild exhilaration Of his purpose and his sit
uation, he was indifferent whether he be-
queahed his body 10 the family vault in
Deer6eld church-yard, or flung it away TO
waste among the lonely mountains. His inn
agnation was too dull to trouble him about
images of the dangers that awaited his en-
enterprise or perhaps his nerves were too
strong to be startled by any such fancies.
The next morning rose bright, warm, and
soft. White thin mists, it is true, still roll
ed over the surface of the slumbering water,
and entanged themselves among the boughs
of he forest but the fresh green on the
mountains contrasted beautifully with the
pure white of the wreaths of vapor that half
involved them. The frontiersmen worked
industriously on their canoe, which as IT APP
preached completion appeared unable to
hold the party, so that another had TO be
made There was ash for the Frame pine
to guard the bottom, and the tough hbres
of spruce to sew the parts together all the
materials were at hand but not 10 detain the
reader with bare and improbable details of
/
afternoon was nearly spent before the little
vessels were complete aud that they were
so frail and perilous, owing to the green
I state of the bark, that no man of these peace
ful times would have ventured his life in one
of them. They embarked, however-twelve
bold vindictive men-and padded with their
best speed northward along the beautiful ST
Sacrament.
1t was indeed beautiful scene 4; peace
full, yet wild and majestic. So pure was the
atmosphere, and so limpid the waters, that
as they skrted the precipitous eastern shore,
the little fishes playing twenty feet below
were as distinctly seen as the quivering birch
and the rough cedar that leaned in the sun
light from the cliff above Then they stood
: out into the broad lake, and steered down
toward an island that lay nearly midway be-
tween the shores, doubled in the unrulfitd
: water The perch and trout darted to the
right and left as the shadows of the canoes
wavered over the sunny rocks aud stones
under the surface, all around the shores of
= this savage paradise Carefully guiding the
little vessels into sort of cove, they drew
n them from the water upon narrow pla; of
IS fresh grass. The island, which was that now
called Diamond Island, was almost covered
Il with rich growth Of trees there was, how
d ever, little space in the centre, where, from
some accident, nothing was growing but the
soft grass; and here they made their camp.
= The sun meanwhile had sunk below the
is horizon. The western sleeps grew brown
as and shadowy, while thousand underlined
lie and changing hues Of purple and red were
- reflected on those 10 the east, and the whole
ye bright circumference of encircling noun
tains, with every island, and every REDEEM
ed cloud, was mirrowed in the still waters.
II. A stream of sunlight still poured on the
landscape through gap of the mountains,
il. ilumining some spots and leaving the rest
r. in obscurity. 1t fell upon little iset not
r, far distant, from the midst Of which rose up
IS above a crowd ofyoung shrubs and saplngs
n. an old distorted pine tree. Its foliage was
AS gone but light MOSES hung from its knot
ID, ted and broken boughs and its storm-beater
81 trunk. with no breath of wind in that calm
j. evening to stir them. ltlooked like the vet
o; eran of century's wars-some old Mohawt
r., chief. perhaps whose voice was cracked, hi:
s. arm withered, and his grim features shrivel
i'd ed. but who would still dance the war-danct
yn and scream the war-song, and to the last gasI
a of his worn-out life exult in the tortures o
Il, MS enemy. Dut sOOil Tue tIduSiSHi SuHpShh
left the old pine its charm was fled, and !
re- was turned to a common tree again. Litt
by little, the light passed away from the no
} BILE landscape, and darkness sunk down OF
zee ST Sacrament. A low heavy sound cam
booming on the ears of the adventures;
- was the evening gun from the distant Frenc
post of Fort Frederick. When Endicot
O again left the circle Of campfire light, an
1T putting aside the branches, looked out upo
Of the lake, he saw the mountains mass {
pm deep shadow before him, with lingerin
bic red light in the sky above. A fish now an
r.. then splashcd on the blackeued surface an
inc suddenly whp-po-wil began his loud ca
re- from the opposite shore.
MY ancestor was awakened in the morn
Of ing by the hoarse cawing of pair of crow
ing that went Tapping slowly over the slan'
H. Their meal finished, the party embarked
-, gain. The lake, so beautiful at evening
"' was no less so in the morning for unlike mi
40 ny ballroom beauty, its charms were sue
II as could bear the broad light. The leakin
Of one of their flimsy canoes, which the
and were obliged to repair, delayed them so muC
I. that the day was far advanced before the
'm3 reached the First Narrows,' where the lal
. contracts itself, and is dotted with null
tude of islands. They grew impatient an
anxious lest the savages should reach Tico
vv Us deroga before them. They had better eau
for anxiety than they thought; who can for
tell the capricious movements OF party
savages? Their restless and waichful en-