John Seely Hart

“ Pale-face cannot deceive Pontiac. You see before you that great warrior. Pontiac likes the English pale-face not at all; for has he not found the pale-face tongue ever fair and false? Where are the lands of our fathers? Did they not reach from the ocean beyond the big river of the Mississippi? Pontiac’s tribe very great. His chiefs have ever been renowned in council and in war. Were not our braves as numerous as the leaves of the forest? Were not peace and plenty ours until the white man came among us? ”

“ Both horse and rider seemed decidedly to belong to the “upper class”—for the animal was sleek and well-conditioned, seeming altogether as fine and spirited a piece of horseflesh as could well have been found; while the man—young, well-formed, and handsome, with eyes as dark as the blackest thunder-cloud, and looking as though their flash might be very much like that cloud’s lightning—had altogether that indescribable air of grace and ease about him that comes only to the travelled and highly cultured. ”

“ With his habitual instinct for the beautiful, Clarence had watched the lithe forms and free graceful motions of the young Indian girls; for Indian maidens before they become wives, and are compelled to hard labour in field and tent, are generally as delicate in form and beautiful in face as their civilized sisters. Their beauty is in fact often more striking and symmetrical. ”