ILLUSTRATIONS.
| “‘What think you now, Tohomish?’” | [Frontispiece] |
| “‘I have spoken; I will not turn back from my words’” | [Facing page 50] |
| “‘The Earth hears us, the Sun sees us’” | [Facing page 88] |
| The Great “Witch Mountain” of the Indians | [Facing page 108] |
| “‘I Will kill him!’” | [Facing page 168] |
| “It was the Death-song of the Willamettes” | [Facing page 204] |
| “‘Come back! Come back!’” | [Facing page 224] |
| Multnomah’s Death-canoe | [Facing page 264] |
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What tall and tawny men were these, As sombre, silent, as the trees They moved among! and sad some way With tempered sadness, ever they, Yet not with sorrow born of fear, The shadows of their destinies They saw approaching year by year, And murmured not. |
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They turned to death as to a sleep, And died with eager hands held out To reaching hands beyond the deep; And died with choicest bow at hand, And quiver full and arrow drawn For use, when sweet to-morrow’s dawn Should wake them in the Spirit Land. Joaquin Miller. |