10/36 I suppose we mostly think of the French as short and dark, but these were tall and fair. The mystery of his lineage puzzled and saddened him at times. It was a loss never to have known a father or a mother, and for his kindest and best friends to be of a blood not his own. The moments of depression, however, were brief, as he had that greatest of all gifts from the gods, a cheerful and hopeful temperament. Gasna Gaowo, the canoe in which they sat, was a noble example of Onondaga art. |