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The Hunters of the Hills

CHAPTER XII
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The English are not a match for them." "If I should tell them what Onontio tells to me they would say: 'Go back to Quebec, which is by right the Stadacona of our great warrior nation, the Mohawks, and say to Onontio that his words are like the songs of birds, but we, the Hodenosaunee, do not forget.

We remember Frontenac, and we remember Champlain, the first of the white men to come among us with guns, the use of which we did not know, killing our warriors.'" "Time makes changes, Tayoga, and the Iroquois must change too." Tayoga, was silent, but his haughty face did not relax a particle.

The Marquis was about to say more upon the subject, but he had a penetrating mind and he saw that his words would be wasted.
"We shall see what we shall see," he said.

"My master, His Majesty King Louis, keeps his promises.

Mr.Lennox, as I take it, still clinging to my inference, it will be some time before you see the Governor of New York again.


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