[The Hunters of the Hills by Joseph Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hunters of the Hills CHAPTER V 30/37
"I know how those sleek traders who are appointed to deal with you cheat you out of your furs and try to cheat you out of your lands! But be patient a little longer, you who have been patient so long.
Word has come from England that the King will remove his commissioners, and make Sir William Johnson his Indian agent for all North America." The eyes of Dayohogo and his warriors glistened. "Is it true ?" he asked.
"Is Waraiyageh (Johnson) to be the one who will talk with us and make the treaties with us ?" "I know it to be a fact, Dayohogo." "Then it is well.
We can trust Waraiyageh, and he knows that he can trust us.
Where our trail runs to Kolaneha (Johnstown) on a hill not far from our tower castle he has built a great house, and I and my brother chiefs of all the three clans the Wolf, the Bear and the Turtle, have been there and have received presents from him.
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