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The Spirit of the Border

CHAPTER XI
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The singing, praying and preaching they heard unmoved.

No emotion was visible on their bronzed faces; nothing changed their unalterable mien.

Had they not moved, or gazed with burning eyes, they would have been statues.

When these chieftains looked at the converted Indians, some of whom were braves of their nations, the contempt in their glances betrayed that they now regarded these Christian Indians as belonging to an alien race.
Among the chiefs Glickhican pointed out to Jim were Wingenund, the Delaware; Tellane, the Half-King; Shingiss and Kotoxen--all of the Wolf tribe of the Delawares.
Glickhican was careful to explain that the Delaware nation had been divided into the Wolf and Turtle tribes, the former warlike people, and the latter peaceable.

Few of the Wolf tribe had gone over to the new faith, and those who had were scorned.


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