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The Refugees

CHAPTER XXXIII
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I have been on the great water, and I remember that my face was sad also.

There is little wind, and so I think that we may light our pipes without danger.

With a good breeze I have known a burning pipe fetch up a scalping party from two miles' distance, but the trees stop scent, and the Iroquois noses are less keen than the Sioux and the Dacotah.

God help you, monsieur, if you should ever have an Indian war.

It is bad for us, but it would be a thousand times worse for you." "And why ?" "Because we have fought the Indians from the first, and we have them always in our mind when we build.


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