On his right and left, respectively, sat Shaushoto and Pipe, implacable foes of all white men.

The latter's aspect did not belie his reputation.

His copper-colored, repulsive visage compelled fear; it breathed vindictiveness and malignity.

A singular action of his was that he always, in what must have been his arrogant vanity, turned his profile to those who watched him, and it was a remarkable one; it sloped in an oblique line from the top of his forehead to his protruding chin, resembling somewhat the carved bowl of his pipe, which was of flint and a famed inheritance from his ancestors.

From it he took his name.