And thanks o’erflowing to the hunter gave:

“From the Great Spirit sure my brother learned

His brother’s danger, when he came to save.”

“Waban,” he answered, “from his lodge discerned

A stranger’s fire, and heard the monsters rave.

Waban has long within these wilds sojourned;

But ne’er before has pale Awanux burned

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“His fire within this unfrequented glade.

Wanders my brother from his homeward way?