And tell the women to prepare a gift hastily for the Chisera. Who knows how soon we shall have need of her medicine.
(One of the Indians departs on this errand.)
Choco
Never so much need of it as when we have neglected our own part of the affair! Even before the Castacs began to fill up our springs and drive our deer, we knew that the Chief is too old for war; and now that the enemy has crossed our borders we are still leaderless.
Pamaquash
So we should not be if we had followed the tribal use and given the leadership to years and experience. It is you young men who have unsettled judgment, with the to-do you have made about the Arrow-Maker.
Choco
I have nothing against years and experience, but when one has the gods as plainly on his side as Simwa—
Yavi
Never have I seen a man so increase in power and fortune—