Had bid the welcome of Whatcheer! Whatcheer!

Till when he should be tossed;—as did proclaim

That nameless stranger—that mysterious seer;—

But from Haup’s Sachem he a grant will gain;

Such were best welcome from that Sachem’s train.

LXXX.

Full of this thought, he turned at close of day,

And gained the humble lodge as night came down;

And he could scarcely brook the short delay,

Till Waban, coming from the white man’s town,