Wacora rushed towards the spot, while Alice kept her place, transfixed to it by a terrible presentiment.
The young chief uttered an exclamation of horror, as he looked in among the bushes.
His cousin was lying beneath them, stretched out—dead! a dagger, which his right hand still clutched, sheathed in his heart!
With his last groan, and his heart’s blood, the generous youth had yielded up his love with his life.
L’Envoi.
The Seminole war continued for eight years.
Eight years of bloodshed and horror, in which the white man and the Indian struggled for the supremacy.
The whites fought for conquest, the Indians to retain possession of their own.
On both sides were acts of cruelty—terrible episodes illustrating the lex talionis.