It has been already said that our interpreter, Salamander, possessed3 a spirit of humour slightly tinged5 with mischief6, which, while it unquestionably added to the amusement of our sojourn7 in those lands, helped not a little to rouse our anxieties.
On returning to our men, after parting from Lumley, for the purpose of giving them their instructions, I found that Salamander was missing, and that no one could tell where he had gone. I caused a search to be made for him, which was unsuccessful, and would have persevered8 with it if there had not pressed upon me the necessity of obeying my chief’s orders to keep the savages9 amused. This I set about doing without delay, and having, like my friend, been a diligent11 student of the language on the journey, found that I succeeded, more than I had ventured to hope for, in communicating my ideas.
As the disappearance13 of Salamander, however, was the subject which exercised my mind most severely14 at the time, and as he afterwards gave me a full account of the cause in detail, I shall set it down here.
Being possessed that evening, as he confessed, with a spirit of restlessness, and remembering that our two Highlanders had been left to guard the camp at Lake Wichikagan, he resolved to pay them a visit. The distance, as I have said elsewhere, was not much more than six miles—a mere16 trifle to one who was as fleet as a young deer and strong as an old bear. He soon traversed the ground and came up to the camp.
At first he meant merely to give the men a surprise, but the spirit to which I have already referred induced him to determine on giving them a fright. Approaching very cautiously, therefore, with this end in view, he found that things were admirably arranged for his purpose.
Donald Bane and James Dougall, having finished their fortress17 in the centre of the open lawn, as already described, returned to their fire, which, it may be remembered, was kindled18 close to the edge of the bushes. There they cooked some food and devoured19 it with the gusto of men who had well earned their supper. Thereafter, as a matter of course, they proceeded to enjoy a pipe.
The night, besides being fine and calm, was unusually warm, thereby20 inducing a feeling of drowsiness21, which gradually checked the flow of conversation previously22 evoked23 by the pipes.
“It is not likely the redskins will come up here to give us a chance when there’s such a lot of our lads gone to meet them,” said Bane, with a yawn.
“I agree with you, Tonald,” answered Dougall grumpily.
“It is quite new to hev you agreein’ with me so much, Shames,” returned Bane with another yawn.
“You are right. An’ it is more lively to disagree, whatever,” rejoined Dougall, with an irresistible24, because sympathetic, yawn.
“Oo ay, that’s true, Shames. Yie-a-ou!”
This yawn was so effusive25 that Dougall, refusing to be led even by sympathy, yawned internally with his lips closed and swallowed it.
The conversation dropped at this point, though the puffs26 went on languidly. As the men were extended at full-length, one on his side, the other on his back, it was not unnatural27 that, being fatigued28, they should both pass from the meditative29 to the dreamy state, and from that to the unconscious.
It was in this condition that Salamander discovered them.
“Asleep at their posts!” he said mentally. “That deserves punishment.”
He had crept on hands and knees to the edge of the bushes, and paused to contemplate30 the wide-open mouth of Bane, who lay on his back, and the prominent right ear of Dougall, whose head rested on his left arm. The débris of supper lay around them—scraps of pemmican, pannikins, spoons, knives, and the broken shells of teal-duck eggs which, having been picked up some time before, had gone bad.
Suddenly an inspiration—doubtless from the spirit of mischief—came over Salamander. There was one small unbroken egg on the ground near to Bane’s elbow. Just over his head the branch of a bush extended. To genius everything comes handy and nothing amiss. Salamander tied the egg to a piece of small twine31 and suspended it to the twig32 in such fashion that the egg hung directly over Bane’s wide-open mouth. At a glance he had seen that it was possible to lay a light hand on the inner end of the branch, and at the same time bend his mouth over Dougall’s ear. He drew a long breath, for it was a somewhat delicate and difficult, being a duplicate, manoeuvre33!
Pressing down the branch very slowly and with exceeding care, he guided the egg into Bane’s mouth. He observed the precise moment when it touched the sleeper’s tongue, and then exploded a yell into Dougall’s ear that nearly burst the tympanum.
Bane’s jaws34 shut with a snap instantly. Need we—no, we need not! Dougall leaped up with a cry that almost equalled that of Salamander. Both men rushed to the fortress and bounded into it, the one spurting35 out Gaelic expletives, the other rotten egg and bits of shell. They seized their guns and crouched36, glaring through the various loopholes all round with finger on trigger, ready to sacrifice at a moment’s notice anything with life that should appear. Indeed they found it difficult, in their excited condition, to refrain from blazing at nothing! Their friendly foe37 meanwhile had retired38, highly delighted with his success. He had not done with them however. By no means! The spirit of mischief was still strong upon him, and he crept into the bushes to meditate39.
“It wass an evil speerut, Shames,” gasped40 Donald Bane, when he had nearly got rid of the egg. “Did you smell his preath?”
“No, Tonald, it wass not. Spirits are not corporeal41, and cannot handle eggs, much less cram42 them down a man’s throat. It wass the egg you did smell.”
“That may be so, Shames, but it could not be a redskin, for he would be more likely to cram a scalpin’ knife into my heart than an egg into my mouth.”
“Iss it not dreamin’ ye wass, an’ tryin’ to eat some more in your sleep? You wass always fond of overeatin’ yourself—whativer—Tonald.”
Before this question could be answered, another yell of the most appalling43 and complex nature rang out upon the night-air, struck them dumb, and seemed to crumple44 up their very hearts.
Salamander had been born with a natural gift for shrieking45, and being of a sprightly47 disposition48, had cultivated the gift in boyhood. Afterwards, being also a good mimic49, he had made the subject a special study, with a view to attract geese and other game towards him. That he sometimes prostituted the talent was due to the touch of genius to which I have already referred.
When the crumpled-up organs began to recover, Bane said to Dougall, “Shames, this iss a bad business.”
Dougall, having been caught twice that evening, was on his guard. He would not absolutely agree with his friend, but admitted that he was not far wrong.
Again the yell burst forth50 with intensified51 volume and complicated variation. Salamander was young; he did not yet know that it is possible to over-act.
“Shames!” whispered Bane, “I hev got a notion in my hid.”
“I hope it’s a coot w’an, Tonald, for the notions that usually git into it might stop there with advantage. They are not much to boast of.”
“You shall see. Just you keep talkin’ out now an’ then as if I wass beside you, an’ don’t, whativer ye do, fire into the bushes.”
“Ferry coot,” answered Dougall.
Another moment, and Donald Bane glided52 over the parapet of their fort at the side nearest the lake; and, creeping serpent-fashion for a considerable distance round, gained the bushes, where he waited for a repetition of the cry. He had not long to wait. With that boldness, not to say presumption53, which is the child of success, Salamander now began to make too many drafts on genius, and invented a series of howls so preposterously54 improbable that it was impossible for even the most credulous55 to believe them the natural cries of man, beast, demon56, or monster.
Following up the sound, Donald Bane soon came to a little hollow where, in the dim light, he perceived Salamander’s visage peering over a ridge57 in the direction of the fortress, his eyes glittering with glee and his mouth wide-open in the act of giving vent12 to the hideous58 cries. The Highlander15 had lived long in the wilderness59, and was an adept60 in its ways. With the noiseless motion of a redskin he wormed his way through the underwood until close alongside of the nocturnal visitor, and then suddenly stopped a howl of more than demoniac ferocity by clapping a hand on Salamander’s mouth.
With a convulsive wriggle61 the youth freed his mouth, and uttered a shriek46 of genuine alarm, but Bane’s strong arm pinned him to the earth.
“Ye dirty loon,” growled62 the man in great wrath63, “wass you thinkin’ to get the better of a Heelandman? Come along with ye. I’ll give you a lesson that you’ll not forget—whatever.”
Despite his struggles, Bane held Salamander fast until he ceased to resist, when he grasped him by the collar, and led him towards the little fort.
At first, Salamander had been on the point of confessing the practical joke, but the darkness of the night induced him to hope for another escape from his position. He had not yet uttered a word; and, as he could not distinguish the features of the Highlander, it was possible, he thought, that the latter might have failed to recognise him. If he could give him the slip, he might afterwards deny having had anything to do with the affair. But it was not easy to give the slip to a man whose knuckly64 hand held him like a vice65.
“Shames,” said Bane as he came near the fortress, “I’ve cot the peast! come oot, man, an’ fetch a stick wi’ you. I’ll ha’d ’im while you lay on.”
Salamander, who understood well enough what he might expect, no sooner heard Dougall clambering over the barricade66 than he gathered himself up for a tremendous wriggle, but received such a fearful squeeze on the neck from the vice-like hand of his captor that he was nearly choked. At the moment a new idea flashed into his fertile brain. His head dropped suddenly to one side; his whole frame became limp, and he fell, as it were, in a heap on the ground, almost bringing the Highlander on the top of him.
“Oh! the miserable67 cratur,” exclaimed Bane, relaxing his grasp with a feeling of self-reproach, for he had a strong suspicion that his captive really was Salamander. “I do believe I’ve killed him. Wow! Shames, man, lend a hand to carry him to the fire, and plow68 up a bit flame that we may see what we’ve gotten.”
“Iss he tead, Tonald?” asked Dougall, in a pitiful tone, as he came forward.
“No, Shames, he’s no tead yet. Take up his feet, man, an’ I’ll tak’ his shouthers.”
Dougall went to Salamander’s feet, turned his back to them, and stooped to take them up as a man takes a wheelbarrow. He instantly received a kick, or rather a drive, from Salamander’s soles that sent him sprawling69 on his hands and knees. Donald Bane, stooping to grasp the shoulder, received a buffet70 on the cheek, which, being unexpected, sent him staggering to the left, while the sly youth, springing to his feet bounded into the bushes on the right with a deep-toned roar ending in a laugh that threw all his previous efforts quite into the shade.
The Highlanders rose, but made no attempt to pursue.
“My friend,” said Bane, softly, “if that wass not an evil speerut, I will be fery much surprised.”
“No, Tonald, it wass not a speerut,” replied the other, as they returned to their fortress. “Speeruts will not be kickin’ an’ slappin’ like that; they are not corporeal.”
While these scenes were enacting71 on the margin72 of Lake Wichikagan, Lumley and Mozwa arrived at the enemy’s camp. It was a war-camp. All the women and children had been sent away, none but armed and painted braves remained.
They were holding a palaver73 at the time. The spot was the top of an open eminence74 which was so clear of underwood that the approach of a foe without being seen was an impossibility. Although the night was rather dark, Lumley and his guide had been observed the instant they came within the range of vision. No stir, however, took place in the camp, for it was instantly perceived that the strangers were alone. With the grave solemnity of redskin warriors75, they silently awaited their coming. A small fire burned in their midst, for they made no attempt at concealment77. They were prepared to fight at a moment’s notice. The red flames gleamed on their dusky faces, and glittered in their glancing eyes, as Lumley and Mozwa strode boldly into the circle, and stood before the chief.
Intense surprise filled the hearts of the warriors at this unexpected apparition78 of a white man, but not an eye or muscle betrayed the smallest symptom of the feeling.
“The pale-face is welcome,” said the chief, after a short pause.
“The pale-face is glad to meet with his dark-skinned brother, and thanks him,” returned Lumley.
If the surprise at the sudden appearance of the pale-face was great, the astonishment79 to find that he spoke80 the Indian tongue was greater; but still the feeling was not betrayed.
After a few short complimentary81 speeches, our hero came at once to the point.
“My brothers,” he said, looking round on the dusky warriors, who remained sitting all the time, “the white chief of the fur-traders has sent me into this country to trade with you.”
This statement was received with a “waugh” of satisfaction from several of the warriors.
“And,” continued Lumley, “I have brought men—strong men, who can work well—to help me to build a house, so that we may live among you and hunt together.”
He paused here to let the statement have its full effect. Then he continued:—
“I have also brought plenty of guns, and powder, and lead.”
“The white man knows,” continued Lumley, in a more flowing style, “that his red brothers have need of many things which they do not possess, while the white man is in need of furs, and does not possess them. It is for the good of each that we should exchange. The Great Spirit, who is all-wise, as well as all-good, has seen fit to scatter84 His children over a wide world, and He has given some of them too much of one thing, some of them too much of another. Why has He done so? May we not think that it is for the purpose of causing His children to move about the world, and mingle85, and help each other, and so increase Love? Some of the bad children prefer to move about and steal. But there is no need. It is easier to do good than to do evil. If all men would help and none would steal, there would be more than enough for all.”
Again a pause. Some of the savages, who were thoughtful men, were greatly tickled86 in their minds by the arguments set forth. Others, who could not understand, were deeply impressed.
“Now,” continued Lumley, coming to the marrow87 of his discourse88, “the red-men have more than enough of furs.”
“Waugh!” in a tone of emphasis, that implied “that’s true.”
“And the pale-faces have few furs, but want some very much.”
“Waugh?” interrogatively, in a tone that implied “what then?”
“Well, but the pale-faces are not poor. They are rich, and have far too much of many things. They have far too much of those pleasant sweet things called sugar and molasses (the Indians involuntarily licked their lips). Too much cloth as bright as the sun at setting, and as blue as the sky at noon (the Indian eyes glistened). Too many guns, and too much powder and shot (the savage10 eyes glared). They have more beads89, and blankets, and hatchets91, and tobacco, than they know what to do with, so they have sent some of these things here to be given to you in exchange for furs, and food, and leather.”
The waughs! and hows! and hos! with which these remarks were followed up were so hearty92, that Lumley thought it best to make a considerable pause at this point; then he resumed:—
“But, my brothers,”—he stopped for a considerable time, and looked so grave, that the hearts of the red-men sank, lest the glorious vision which had been suddenly revealed to them, should be as suddenly withdrawn93 in some way.
“But,” repeated Lumley, again, with a sort of awful emphasis, “the pale-faces detest94 war. They can fight—yes, and when they must fight, they will fight, but they do not love fighting, and if they are to stay here and open up trade with their guns, and their powder, and their blankets, and beads, and cloth (he wisely went all over it again for the sake of effect), there must be peace in the land. If there is war the pale-faces will take all their good things and go away—waugh!”
Finishing off in the true red-man style, Lumley sat down with decision, as though to say, “Now, the ball is at your own feet, kick it which way you please.”
Then the chief of the savages rose with dignity, but with a tinge4 of eagerness which he could not altogether conceal76, and said:—
“Let not my white brother talk of going away. War shall cease at his bidding. Let him and his pale-faced warriors fell trees, and build wigwams, and hunt. We have plenty furs—the black fox, the red fox, the beaver95, the marten, the minks96, the bear, and many other animals are plentiful97. We will exchange them for the goods of the white man. We will bury the hatchet90, and smoke the calumet of peace, and the sound of the war-whoop shall no more be heard in the land—waugh!”
This was a testing question, and for some time remained unanswered, while the chiefs and braves looked preposterously solemn. At last, however, they seemed to make up their minds, and the chief replied, “We are ready.”
That night the hostile savages met on the shores of Lake Wichikagan, and encamped with the fur-traders. Fires were lighted, and kettles put on, a royal feast was prepared; and the reunited tribes of red-men finally buried the war-hatchet there, and smoked the pipe of peace.
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mischief
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shriek
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