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CHAPTER XXVII. HOW I STROVE ALL NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL.
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It was late in the evening ere we reached the shelf in the high glens which was the headquarters of the Indian host. I rode on a horse, between Onotawah and Shalah, as if I were a chief and no prisoner. On the road we met many bands of Indians hastening to the trysting-place, for the leader had flung his outposts along the whole base of the range, and the chief warriors1 returned to the plateau for the last ritual. No man spoke2 a word, and when we met other companies the only greeting was by uplifted hands.
The shelf was lit with fires, and there was a flare3 of torches in the centre. I saw an immense multitude of lean, dark faces—how many I cannot tell, but ten thousand at the least. It took all my faith to withstand the awe4 of the sight. For these men were not the common Indian breed, but a race nurtured5 and armed for great wars, disciplined to follow one man, and sharpened to a needle-point in spirit. Perhaps if I had been myself a campaigner I should have been less awed6 by the spectacle; but having nothing with which to compare it, I judged this a host before which the scattered7 Border stockades8 and Nicholson's scanty9 militia10 would go down like stubble before fire.
At the head of the plateau, just under the brow of the hill, and facing the half-circle of level land, stood a big tent of skins. Before it was a square pile of boulders12 about the height of a man's waist, heaped on the top with brushwood so that it looked like a rude altar. Around this the host had gathered, sitting mostly on the ground with knees
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