One was he who died yesterday, and the other is now by my side." These words of Shalah did not make me proud, for things were too serious for vanity.

But they served to confirm in me my strange exaltation.

I felt as one dedicated to a mighty task.
"Tell me, what is the invasion which threatens the Tidewater ?" "The whole truth is not known to me; but from the speech of my tribesmen, it seems that the Children of the West Wind, twelve moons ago, struck their tents and resolved to seek a new country.

There is a restlessness comes upon all Indian peoples once in every five generations.

It fell upon my grandfather, and he travelled towards the sunset, and now it has fallen upon the whole race of the Sun.