Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-07-24

wards point mile distant. He moves =
may be he will come here
Moves, see nothing but land, water and
sky. What movest' esssl a~.u .ti
The swimming Seneca For thousand
winters he is to swim in the waters of this lake.
Such is the tradition Of my people. Five hum
dred winters are gone by since he was thrown
inro the lake; five hundred more must come
before he will sink. The curse Of the Mani
tou is on him. Fire will not burn him; wa
ter will not swallow hun; the fish will not
60 near him; even the accursed axe Of iIse
settler cannot cut him inro chips! There
he hoais, and must ho.l until his lime is 6n.
ished : a, .......... ..a+ ..r...
- You must meao tho Wandering Jew.''
So the pale faces call him but he never
WINS a Jew. IT'S chief of The Scnecas,
thrown into the lake BY the Great Spirit, for
his bad conduct. Whenever he tries to get
upon the land, the Spiri, speaks to him from
the caves helow, and he obeys.'
That must mean the Lake Gun.''
So the pale faces ca III it. II is not strange
that the names Of the red man and the pale.
faces should differ
The races are not the same, and each has
its own traditions. wish to hear what the
Senecas say about this floating tree but first
have the coodnes, TO point il out to me-
The young Indian did as Fuller requested.
Aided BY the keener vision of the red man, our
traveller at length got glimpse of distant
sPeck on the water, which his companion as
sured him was their mutual search He him
self had looked for the Jew week, but had
asked no assistance from others, relying on the
keenness of his sight and the accuracy of his
traditions. That very morning he had frs,
discovered the speck on the water, which he
now pointed out to his companion.
You think, then. that youder object is the
Wandering Jew ,'' asked Fuller.
1t is the Swimming Seneca. Five hun
dred winters has he been obliged to keep in
the chilled waters of the lake ; in five hundred
more the Manitou will let him rest on its bot
tOm.' ....
What was the offence that has drawn down
upon this chief so severe punishment
Listen to our traditions, and you shall
know. When the Great Spirit created man,
He gave him laws to obey, and duties to per.
form
Excuse me, Seneca, but your language is
SO good that hardly know what to make OF
yoa.'
An almost imperceptible smile played abou,
the compressed hip of the young Indian, who,
al first seemed disposed to evade an explain
lion bot on reflection, he changed his pur-
pose, and communicated to Fuller the outlines
OF a very simple, and by no means, unusual
history. He was chief of the highest race
in his tribe, and had been selected to receive
the education of pae-face at one of the col
leges of that people. He had received de-
gree, and yielding to the irrepressible long
ings of what might almost be termed his ma
ture, he no sooner left the college in which he
had been educated, than he resumed the blan-
ket and leggr gs, under the influence Of early
recollec,ions, and mistaken appreciation ol
the comparative advantages between the civil
lized condition, and those ola life passed in the
forest and on the prairies. In this respect, oul
young Seneca resembles the white American
who, after run of six months in Europe, re-
turns home with the patriotic declaration in
his mouth, that his native land is preferable tc
all other lands. Fuller soon understood the
case when both reverted to their common Oh
ject in coming thither. The young Seneca
ihereupon resumed his explanation.
These laws Of the Great Spirit continued
the Seneca, were not difficult to obey, SO long
as the warrior was of humble mind, and be.
lieved himself inferior 10 the Manilou, who
had fashioned him with his hands, and placed
him between the Seneca and the Caynga, tc
hun, the deer and trap the beaver. But See
wise was one of those who praciisec arts tha,
you pale-faces condemn, while you submit tc
them. He was demagogue among the red
men. and set up the tribe in opposition 10 the
Manitou.' ...
How exclaimed Fuller, did the dwellers
in the forest suffer by such practices .
Men are everywhere the same, let the col.
or, or the tribe, or the country, be what i, may
1t was law Of our people, one which tradition
tells US came direct from the Great Spirit, tina,
tile fish should be taken only in certain seasons
and for SO many moons. Some thought this
law was for the health of the people others,
that it was to enable the fish TO multiply for
the future All believe it is wise, because il
came from the Manilou, and had descended to
the tribe through so many generations; all but
See-wise. He said the Indian ought to fish
when aud where he pleased that warrior
was not woman that the spear ard hool
had been given to him 10 be used, like the
bow and arrow, and that none but cowardly
Indians would scruple to take the fish wher
they wished. Such opinions pleased the
common Indians, who love to believe them
selves greater than they are. See-wise grew
bolJer by success, until he dared to say, in
council, that the red men made the world
themselves, and for themselves, and that they
could do with it what they pleased. He saw
no use in any night; it was inconsenien,; ar
Indian could sleep in the light as well as the
darkness there was to be eternal day ther
the hunt could go on until the deer was killet
or the bear treed. The young Indians hkee