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CHAPTER XII. THE JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS (continued).
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Mountain’s story, as it was laid before Sir William Johnson and my lord, was shorn, of course, of all the earlier particulars, and the expedition described to have proceeded uneventfully, until the Master sickened. But the latter part was very forcibly related, the speaker visibly thrilling to his recollections; and our then situation, on the fringe of the same desert, and the private interests of each, gave him an audience prepared to share in his emotions. For Mountain’s intelligence not only changed the world for my Lord Durrisdeer, but materially affected2 the designs of Sir William Johnson.
These I find I must lay more at length before the reader. Word had reached Albany of dubious3 import; it had been rumoured4 some hostility5 was to be put in act; and the Indian diplomatist had, thereupon, sped into the wilderness6, even at the approach of winter, to nip that mischief7 in the bud. Here, on the borders, he learned that he was come too late; and a difficult choice was thus presented to a man (upon the whole) not any more bold than prudent8. His standing9 with the painted braves may be compared to that of my Lord President Culloden among the chiefs of our own Highlanders at the ’forty-five; that is as much as to say, he was, to these men, reason’s only speaking trumpet10, and counsels of peace and moderation, if they were to prevail at all, must prevail singly through his influence. If, then, he should return, the province must lie open to all the abominable11 tragedies of Indian war—the houses blaze, the
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landmark
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deviously
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boulders
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carrion
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seclusion
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copious
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