(He goes up among the rocks, and the women huddle wretchedly together watching.)
Wacoba
Do you think she will consent?
Seegooche
She cannot choose but do it. The men have kept her supplied with venison, but she must know that there is hunger in the camp of the women and children.
Wacoba
And that the Tecuyas have taken the best of our fighting men.
Tiawa
But no man of hers. I have always said—but because I am old nobody minds me—that if there was one of her household to go to battle, she would need no persuasion to go before the gods. I would Simwa had given her a child.
Wacoba