"Good! What do you think of Natah Otann
"Ah! that is where you are galled still!"
"Yes."
"Well, I will reply that this man appears to me extraordinary; there is something strange about him, which I cannot understand. In the first place, is he an Indian?"
"Yes."
"But he has travelled; he has been in white society; he has been in the interior of the United States?"
The hunter shook his head. "No," he said, "he has never left his tribe."
"Yet—"
"Yet," Bright-eye quickly interrupted him, "he speaks English, French and Spanish, as well as yourself, and perhaps better than I do, eh? Before his warriors he feigns profound ignorance; like them, he trembles at the sight of one of the results of civilization—a watch, a musical box, or even a lucifer match, eh?"
"It is true."