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His
companions
consented
in
silence
,
and
the
whole
of
the
savage
party
left
the
cavern
and
returned
to
the
council-lodge
.
When
they
were
seated
,
all
eyes
turned
on
Magua
,
who
understood
,
from
such
an
indication
,
that
,
by
common
consent
,
they
had
devolved
the
duty
of
relating
what
had
passed
on
him
.
He
arose
,
and
told
his
tale
without
duplicity
or
reservation
.
The
whole
deception
practised
by
both
Duncan
and
Hawkeye
was
,
of
course
,
laid
naked
;
and
no
room
was
found
,
even
for
the
most
superstitious
of
the
tribe
,
any
longer
to
affix
a
doubt
on
the
character
of
the
occurrences
.
It
was
but
too
apparent
that
they
had
been
insultingly
,
shamefully
,
disgracefully
deceived
.
When
he
had
ended
,
and
resumed
his
seat
,
the
collected
tribe
--
for
his
auditors
,
in
substance
,
included
all
the
fighting
men
of
the
party
--
sat
regarding
each
other
like
men
astonished
equally
at
the
audacity
and
the
success
of
their
enemies
.
The
next
consideration
,
however
,
was
the
means
and
opportunities
for
revenge
.
Additional
pursuers
were
sent
on
the
trail
of
the
fugitives
;
and
then
the
chiefs
applied
themselves
,
in
earnest
,
to
the
business
of
consultation
.
Many
different
expedients
were
proposed
by
the
elder
warriors
,
in
succession
,
to
all
of
which
Magua
was
a
silent
and
respectful
listener
.
That
subtle
savage
had
recovered
his
artifice
and
self-command
,
and
now
proceeded
towards
his
object
with
his
customary
caution
and
skill
.
It
was
only
when
each
one
disposed
to
speak
had
uttered
his
sentiments
,
that
he
prepared
to
advance
his
own
opinions
.
They
were
given
with
additional
weight
from
the
circumstance
that
some
of
the
runners
had
already
returned
,
and
reported
that
their
enemies
had
been
traced
so
far
as
to
leave
no
doubt
of
their
having
sought
safety
in
the
neighboring
camp
of
their
suspected
allies
,
the
Delawares
.
With
the
advantage
of
possessing
this
important
intelligence
,
the
chief
warily
laid
his
plans
before
his
fellows
,
and
,
as
might
have
been
anticipated
from
his
eloquence
and
cunning
,
they
were
adopted
without
a
dissenting
voice
.
They
were
,
briefly
,
as
follows
,
both
in
opinions
and
in
motives
.
It
has
been
already
stated
that
,
in
obedience
to
a
policy
rarely
departed
from
,
the
sisters
were
separated
so
soon
as
they
reached
the
Huron
village
.
Magua
had
early
discovered
that
in
retaining
the
person
of
Alice
,
he
possessed
the
most
effectual
check
on
Cora
.
When
they
parted
,
therefore
,
he
kept
the
former
within
reach
of
his
hand
,
consigning
the
one
he
most
valued
to
the
keeping
of
their
allies
.
The
arrangement
was
understood
to
be
merely
temporary
,
and
was
made
as
much
with
a
view
to
flatter
his
neighbors
as
in
obedience
to
the
invariable
rule
of
Indian
policy
.
While
goaded
incessantly
by
those
revengeful
impulses
that
in
a
savage
seldom
slumber
,
the
chief
was
still
attentive
to
his
more
permanent
personal
interests
.
The
follies
and
disloyalty
committed
in
his
youth
were
to
be
expiated
by
a
long
and
painful
penance
,
ere
he
could
be
restored
to
the
full
enjoyment
of
the
confidence
of
his
ancient
people
;
and
without
confidence
,
there
could
be
no
authority
in
an
Indian
tribe
.
In
this
delicate
and
arduous
situation
,
the
crafty
native
had
neglected
no
means
of
increasing
his
influence
;
and
one
of
the
happiest
of
his
expedients
had
been
the
success
with
which
he
had
cultivated
the
favor
of
their
powerful
and
dangerous
neighbors
.
The
result
of
his
experiment
had
answered
all
the
expectations
of
his
policy
;
for
the
Hurons
were
in
no
degree
exempt
from
that
governing
principle
of
nature
,
which
induces
man
to
value
his
gifts
precisely
in
the
degree
that
they
are
appreciated
by
others
.
But
,
while
he
was
making
this
ostensible
sacrifice
to
general
considerations
,
Magua
never
lost
sight
of
his
individual
motives
.
The
latter
had
been
frustrated
by
the
unlooked-for
events
which
had
placed
all
his
prisoners
beyond
his
control
;
and
he
now
found
himself
reduced
to
the
necessity
of
suing
for
favors
to
those
whom
it
had
so
lately
been
his
policy
to
oblige
.
Several
of
the
chiefs
had
proposed
deep
and
treacherous
schemes
to
surprise
the
Delawares
,
and
,
by
gaining
possession
of
their
camp
,
to
recover
their
prisoners
by
the
same
blow
;
for
all
agreed
that
their
honor
,
their
interests
,
and
the
peace
and
happiness
of
their
dead
countrymen
,
imperiously
required
them
speedily
to
immolate
some
victims
to
their
revenge
.
But
plans
so
dangerous
to
attempt
,
and
of
such
doubtful
issue
,
Magua
found
little
difficulty
in
defeating
.
He
exposed
their
risk
and
fallacy
with
his
usual
skill
;
and
it
was
only
after
he
had
removed
every
impediment
,
in
the
shape
of
opposing
advice
,
that
he
ventured
to
propose
his
own
projects
.
He
commenced
by
flattering
the
self-love
of
his
auditors
;
a
never-failing
method
of
commanding
attention
.
When
he
had
enumerated
the
many
different
occasions
on
which
the
Hurons
had
exhibited
their
courage
and
prowess
,
in
the
punishment
of
insults
,
he
digressed
in
a
high
encomium
on
the
virtue
of
wisdom
.
He
painted
the
quality
,
as
forming
the
great
point
of
difference
between
the
beaver
and
other
brutes
;
between
brutes
and
men
;
and
,
finally
,
between
the
Hurons
,
in
particular
,
and
the
rest
of
the
human
race
.
After
he
had
sufficiently
extolled
the
property
of
discretion
,
he
undertook
to
exhibit
in
what
manner
its
use
was
applicable
to
the
present
situation
of
their
tribe
.
On
the
one
hand
,
he
said
,
was
their
great
pale
father
,
the
governor
of
the
Canadas
,
who
had
looked
upon
his
children
with
a
hard
eye
since
their
tomahawks
had
been
so
red
;
on
the
other
,
a
people
as
numerous
as
themselves
,
who
spoke
a
different
language
,
possessed
different
interests
,
and
loved
them
not
,
and
who
would
be
glad
of
any
pretence
to
bring
them
in
disgrace
with
the
great
white
chief
.
Then
he
spoke
of
their
necessities
;
of
the
gifts
they
had
a
right
to
expect
for
their
past
services
;
of
their
distance
from
their
proper
hunting-grounds
and
native
villages
;
and
of
the
necessity
of
consulting
prudence
more
,
and
inclination
less
,
in
so
critical
circumstances
.
When
he
perceived
that
,
while
the
old
men
applauded
his
moderation
,
many
of
the
fiercest
and
most
distinguished
of
the
warriors
listened
to
these
politic
plans
with
lowering
looks
,
he
cunningly
led
them
back
to
the
subject
which
they
most
loved
.
