As they were on the eve of journeying there came to them a prophet, who told them that God would lead them not towards the West, as was the tradition of the elders, but eastwards to the sea and the dwellings of the Palefaces." "Is that the crazy white man we have heard of ?" "He is of your race, brother.

What his spell is I know not, but it works mightily among my people.

They tell me that he hath bodily converse with devils, and that God whispers His secrets to him in the night-watches.

His God hath told him--so runs the tale--that He hath chosen the Children of the Sun for His peculiar people, and laid on them the charge of sweeping the white men off the earth and reigning in their stead from the hills to the Great Waters." "Do you believe in this madman, Shalah ?" I asked.
"I know not," he said, with a troubled face.

"I fear one possessed of God.