. Wah-see-ola, the light of the tribes at the meeting waters. nts? Surely it must be. It cannot be by accidentthat I am here waiting, still hoping, keeping couragethat my will shall never fail me; for I shall try thewhile life is with me to reach home. I shall neverrest the while I have my mind and feet. No, it never was by accident; never. I was des-tined to years of fate of this kind. But when willthere be a change, if not shortly I shall soon die to myknowledge of self. I will never know the joy of re-turning home. I will be a lone wanderer, a mentalwreck of my past self, though I have yet
. Wah-see-ola, the light of the tribes at the meeting waters. nts? Surely it must be. It cannot be by accidentthat I am here waiting, still hoping, keeping couragethat my will shall never fail me; for I shall try thewhile life is with me to reach home. I shall neverrest the while I have my mind and feet. No, it never was by accident; never. I was des-tined to years of fate of this kind. But when willthere be a change, if not shortly I shall soon die to myknowledge of self. I will never know the joy of re-turning home. I will be a lone wanderer, a mentalwreck of my past self, though I have yet to know oneamong the natives who is insane. Insanity is not com-mon out here. Yes, though I may be in insane wan-derer and walk into the open jaws of a wild animalthat would feed richly on my body to be a human foodfor a brute. Then my bones would be picked bare bythe buzzards of these wild regions; such might shortlybe the ending of me and I begin to feel it matters not 273 much what might happen in the face of such as theworst could happen a human •274 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE It was a bright clear morning. Commander deChampeaux sat quietly thinking trying to locate thedirection of the Pottawattomie village (torn where hewas. I [e seemed to think he was not such a great 9 off by what the natives knew of a big water they triedto tell him. The hunters left early in the morning withthe squaws on their game chase. Ki-a-da-go andYo-nee, a short stout young brave, remained with Com-mander de Champeaux to keep watcli for a vessel andassist him at whatever he might do to his need in theabsence of others of the party. Yo-nee was an illy shaped dwarf, odd one ofthe natives. He was peculiar also. He had afear of the dark at night. He claimed hecould see things in the dark that he would try todescribe, which amused the natives who planned tojoke him and would make all sorts of things to frightenthe poor fellow and then hear him tell of what hehad seen, and what it meant to his super
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