. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . CAPTAIN JACK. cognized the Indian captive who was approaching, and passed theinformation each to the other, the drowsy quiet vanished as ifby magic. Wild cheers from the troops greeted the murderer oftheir beloved old commander, as he entered the camp and stoodbefore them, every inch a chief. Proud, disdainful, indifferent totaunt and courtesy alike, he maintained a dogged silence, evenwhen ironed; only a subordinate protested against this 634 GENERAL CROOK;. But when it was once decided what should be done with theModocs, and a civil tria
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . CAPTAIN JACK. cognized the Indian captive who was approaching, and passed theinformation each to the other, the drowsy quiet vanished as ifby magic. Wild cheers from the troops greeted the murderer oftheir beloved old commander, as he entered the camp and stoodbefore them, every inch a chief. Proud, disdainful, indifferent totaunt and courtesy alike, he maintained a dogged silence, evenwhen ironed; only a subordinate protested against this 634 GENERAL CROOK;. But when it was once decided what should be done with theModocs, and a civil trial preferred to h court-martial, or exter-mination without trial, as some extremists urged, CaptainJacks silence was broken. Condemned to death, he said thathe had not wanted to fight the whites, but had been driven to itby his warriors; but the law takes cognizance of actions, not ofwishes, and he, with those of his followers who had participatedin the massacre, were sentenced and hanged. Probably he wouldhave remained silent had any other mode of death been chosen;but this, to the Indian, is the most horrible of all. Believingthat the soul escajjes through the open mouth at the moment ofdeath, strangulation, according to his idea, prevents this, andthe unhappy spirit, condemned to hover around the decayingbody, is kept forever from the hajipy hunting grounds. So we take leave of the Modocs, that once, according to theboast of a chief, were as the sands of the sea in number and noware
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