1 You may here see the philosophy of an Indian fight.
2 not fight the warriors with "long knives and leather."
3 I will fight this scrimmage with warriors of my own color.
4 A native warrior fights as he sleeps, without the protection of anything defensive.
5 The pale faces have driven the red-skins from their hunting grounds, and now when they fight, a white man leads the way.
6 Remember," added the scout, tapping his own head significantly on that spot where Gamut was yet sore, "we come to fight, and not to musickate.
7 In this particular he was soon satisfied; for, as has been already seen, the power of the young chief quickly embraced every fighting man in the nation.
8 It is a different matter with a few warriors in open and rugged fight, for 'tis their gift to die with the rifle or the tomahawk in hand; according as their natures may happen to be, white or red.'
9 No, no, the sarpent knew his errand; nor was there any great mistake in the matter, for there is but little love atween a Delaware and a Mingo, let their tribes go out to fight for whom they may, in a white quarrel.
10 We are likely to have a good day for a fight," he said, in English, addressing Heyward, and glancing his eyes upward at the clouds, which began to move in broad sheets across the firmament; "a bright sun and a glittering barrel are no friends to true sight.
11 With his tongue he stops the ears of the Indians; his heart teaches him to pay warriors to fight his battles; his cunning tells him how to get together the goods of the earth; and his arms inclose the land from the shores of the salt-water to the islands of the great lake.