And gray Canonicus is just and wise,

His hands are ever to his tongue most true;

If from their lands my brother’s smoke should rise,

Whate’er those Sachems promise, they will do;

But Waban still doth not his friend advise

To cross the Seekonk where their country lies.

LVI.

“Brother, attend and hear the reasons why;—

There at Mooshausick dwells a dark pawaw,

Who hates Awanux, doth his God defy,