Then think, my children, of what I say I commune with Tell your peopl'e, He whispers me now. Spirit. ;

'

the Great

I have given fire and peace, peace is the only hope of your race. thunder to the pale faces for weapons ; I- have made them plentier

than the leaves of the forest, and still they shall increase These meadows they shall turn with the plough, these forests !

shall fall by the axe, the pale faces shall live upon your hunting-

The grounds, and make their villages upon your fishing places.' Great Spirit says this, and it must be so. are few and

We We must bend before the storm.

powerless before them.

The wind blows hard

!

The old oak trembles

!

Its branches

are gone It bends It falls Its sap is frozen Peace, peace with the white man is the command of the Great Spirit, and !

the wish

!

!

!

the last wish of Passaconnaway."

The old chief did not die at that time, but his activity was so impaired that he abdicated his throne to his son Wannalancet.

He died between 1663 and 1669

the oldest, most learned,

and most eloquent of his race.

SOQUANS and MINICHQUE appear as representatives of the Mahicdns on the Hudson in 1700. The first was a speaker of more than ordinary merit, as his public addresses attest. " of his people, and MINICHQUE is called the u great sachem great he certainly was in forgiving, upon his death-bed, his mur and praying that they might be spared the punishment There is a due for the offense which they had committed. moral grandeur in this, the crowning act of his life, which appeals