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THE man of the world. 163
and my aged friend brought me a bowl
of water, mixed with feme fpirits, to
drink. He took me then home to his
hut, and laid applications of different
fimples to my mangled body. When I was
fo well recovered as to be able to walk
abroad, he called together certain elders
of his tribe, and acknowledging me for his
fon, gave me a name, and fattened round
my neck a belt of wampum. “ It is thus,”
faid he, “ that the valiant are tried,
“ and thus are they rewarded; for how
tc fhould’ft thou be as one of us, if thy
“ foul were as the foul of little men he
“ only is worthy to lift the hatchet with
*c the Cherokees, to whom fhame is more
“ intolerable than the ftab of the knifea
** or the burning of the fire.”