His council blaze, and so began to found
His tribes and villages, and far and near,
With thundering arms, to wake the red man’s fear.
XVII.
“Brother, attend! When first Awanux came,
He was a child, not higher than my knee;
Hunger and cold consumed and pinched his frame;
Houseless on yonder naked shore was he;
Waves roared between him and his corn and game,
Snows clad the wilds, and winter vexed the sea;