The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-10-19
THE MISSISSIPPI
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ny EMERSON aoUGEI
Author of ''The Story Of the Cowboy"
1.-THE Girl at the Halfway House. "Rtc.
<oopyrisht, lsa2, By Emerson Houch-,
CHAPTER Xxx.
THE EMBASSY.

Monsieur! Madame! Pierre Noir!
Listen to me! l have saved you! l,
Jean Breboeuf, have rescued you!"
So spoke Jean Brebceuf, thrusting
his head within the door of the lodge
in which were the remaining prisoners
Of the lroQuois.
1t was indeed Jean Breboeuf who,
strolling beyond the outer edge of the
village, had been among the first to
espy an approaching party of visitors
OF any travellers possible, none could
have been more important to the pris-
oners. Too late, yet welcome even
now, the embassy from New France
among the Iroquois had arrived. In
an instant the village was in an up
roar.
The leader of this embassy from Que
bee was one Capt. Joncaire, at that
time of the French settlements, but in
former years prisoner among the
Onondagos. where he was adopted into
the tribe and. much respected. JON
caire was accompanied by priest of
tho Jesuit brotherhood, by young
officer late of the regiment Carignan,
and by two or three petty Canadian
officials, as well as struggling retinue
Of savages picked up on the way be-
tween Lake George and the Indian
villages. He advanced now at the head
OF his little party, bearing in his hand
wampum belt. He pushed aside the
young men, and demanded that he be
brought to the chief Of the village.
Teganisoris himself presently advanced
to meet him, and of him Joncaire de-
manded that there should at once be
called full council of the tribe; with
which request the chief of the Onon-
dagos FASTENED to comply.
Fully accustomed to such ceremo-
MES, Joncaire sat in the council calm
by listening to the speeches of it's ora
tors, and at length arose for his own
reply. Brothers," said he, 81 have
here"-and he drew from his tunic q
copy of the decree of Louis XIV. de-
claring peace between the French and
the English colonies-"a talking paper
This is the will of Onontio, whom you
love and fear, and it is the will of the
great father across the water, whom
Onontio loves and fears. This talking
paper says that our young men of the
French colonies are no longer to go to
war against Corlaer. The hatdhet has
been buried by the two great fathers.
Brothers, have come to tell you that
It is time for the Iroquois also to bury
the Ratchet, and to place upon it heavy
hot H.
dug up.
Brothers, as you know. the great
canoes from across the sea are bring
ing more and more white men. Look
about you. and tell me where are your
fathers and your brothers and your
sons? Half your fighting men are
gone; and il you turn to the west to
seek out strong young men from the
other tribes, which of them will come
to sit by your fires and be your
brothers? The war trails of the ma
ttons have gone to the west as far as
the Great river. All the country has
been at war. The friends of Onontio
beyond Michilimackinac have been so
busy fighting that they have forgotten
to take the beaver, or il they have
taken 1t, they have been afraid to bring
4 down the water trail to us, lest the
1roquois or the English should rob
them.
Brothers, greaA peace is now de-
clared. Onontio. the father of all the
red men, has taken the promises Of
his children, the Hurons, the Algon-
gums, the Miamis, the Illini, the Outa-
GAMES. the Ojibways, all those peo-
pies who live to the west, that they
will follow the war trail no more. Next
summer there will be great council.
0nontio and Corlaer have. agreed TO
call the tribes to meet at the Noun
tain in the st. Lawrence Onontio
says to you that he will give you back
SouS or's"ne' j. and now he demands