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If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: The Last of the Mohicans</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: James Fenimore Cooper</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0'>Release Date: June, 1997 [eBook #940]<br /> -[Most recently updated: March 25, 2021]</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0'>Character set encoding: UTF-8</div> -<div style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Produced by: John Horner and David Widger</div> -<div style='margin-top:2em;margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 940 ***</div> <h1>The Last of the Mohicans</h1> @@ -95,11 +76,11 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. <h2 class="no-break">by James Fenimore Cooper</h2> -<hr /> +<hr > <h2>Contents</h2> -<table summary="" style=""> +<table> <tr> <td> <a href="#chap00">INTRODUCTION</a></td> @@ -239,12 +220,12 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. </table> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0005.jpg" width="600" height="409" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0005.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 600px; height: 409px"> </div> <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap00"></a>INTRODUCTION</h2> +<h2><a id="chap00"></a>INTRODUCTION</h2> <p> It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the information @@ -391,11 +372,11 @@ exercise its authority as it may see fit. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap01"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap01"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared:<br/> -The worst is wordly loss thou canst unfold:—<br/> +“Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared:<br> +The worst is wordly loss thou canst unfold:—<br> Say, is my kingdom lost?”—Shakespeare </p> @@ -436,11 +417,11 @@ zealous English thought they conferred a sufficient honor on its unsullied fountains, when they bestowed the name of their reigning prince, the second of the house of Hanover. The two united to rob the untutored possessors of its wooded scenery of their native right to perpetuate its original appellation of -“Horican.”<a href="#fn1.1" name="fnref1.1" id="fnref1.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +“Horican.”<a href="#fn1.1" id="fnref1.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn1.1" id="fn1.1"></a> <a href="#fnref1.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn1.1"></a> <a href="#fnref1.1">[1]</a> As each nation of the Indians had its language or its dialect, they usually gave different names to the same places, though nearly all of their appellations were descriptive of the object. Thus a literal translation of the @@ -502,7 +483,7 @@ from a crowd of trained warriors, for his rare military endowments, disgracefully routed by a handful of French and Indians, and only saved from annihilation by the coolness and spirit of a Virginian boy, whose riper fame has since diffused itself, with the steady influence of moral truth, to the -uttermost confines of Christendom.<a href="#fn1.2" name="fnref1.2" id="fnref1.2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> +uttermost confines of Christendom.<a href="#fn1.2" id="fnref1.2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> A wide frontier had been laid naked by this unexpected disaster, and more substantial evils were preceded by a thousand fanciful and imaginary dangers. The alarmed colonists believed that the yells of the savages mingled with every @@ -526,7 +507,7 @@ relentless allies. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn1.2" id="fn1.2"></a> <a href="#fnref1.2">[2]</a> +<a id="fn1.2"></a> <a href="#fnref1.2">[2]</a> Washington, who, after uselessly admonishing the European general of the danger into which he was heedlessly running, saved the remnants of the British army, on this occasion, by his decision and courage. The reputation earned by @@ -796,10 +777,10 @@ whose thoughts were abstracted from the scene around her. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap02"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap02"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Sola, sola, wo ha, ho, sola!”<br/> +“Sola, sola, wo ha, ho, sola!”<br> —Shakespeare </p> @@ -891,7 +872,7 @@ that his skin is dark?” coldly asked Cora. </p> <p> -Alice hesitated no longer; but giving her Narrangansett<a href="#fn2.1" name="fnref2.1" id="fnref2.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +Alice hesitated no longer; but giving her Narrangansett<a href="#fn2.1" id="fnref2.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> a smart cut of the whip, she was the first to dash aside the slight branches of the bushes, and to follow the runner along the dark and tangled pathway. The young man regarded the last speaker in open admiration, and even permitted her @@ -916,7 +897,7 @@ obtain an explanation of the unlooked-for interruption. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn2.1" id="fn2.1"></a> <a href="#fnref2.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn2.1"></a> <a href="#fnref2.1">[1]</a> In the state of Rhode Island there is a bay called Narragansett, so named after a powerful tribe of Indians, which formerly dwelt on its banks. Accident, or one of those unaccountable freaks which nature sometimes plays in the animal @@ -1154,14 +1135,14 @@ poetry, and even the uneasy motion of his ill-trained beast at defiance: </p> <p class="poem"> -“How good it is, O see,<br /> - And how it pleaseth well,<br /> -Together e’en in unity,<br /> - For brethren so to dwell.<br /> -<br /> -It’s like the choice ointment,<br /> - From the head to the beard did go;<br /> -Down Aaron’s head, that downward went<br /> +“How good it is, O see,<br > + And how it pleaseth well,<br > +Together e’en in unity,<br > + For brethren so to dwell.<br > +<br > +It’s like the choice ointment,<br > + From the head to the beard did go;<br > +Down Aaron’s head, that downward went<br > His garment’s skirts unto.” </p> @@ -1230,14 +1211,14 @@ the intermediate space. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap03"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap03"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Before these fields were shorn and till’d,<br/> -Full to the brim our rivers flow’d;<br/> -The melody of waters fill’d<br/> -The fresh and boundless wood;<br/> -And torrents dash’d, and rivulets play’d,<br/> +“Before these fields were shorn and till’d,<br> +Full to the brim our rivers flow’d;<br> +The melody of waters fill’d<br> +The fresh and boundless wood;<br> +And torrents dash’d, and rivulets play’d,<br> And fountains spouted in the shade.”—Bryant </p> @@ -1272,7 +1253,7 @@ his earnest language, by the calm but expressive gestures of an Indian engaged in debate. His body, which was nearly naked, presented a terrific emblem of death, drawn in intermingled colors of white and black. His closely-shaved head, on which no other hair than the well-known and chivalrous scalping -tuft<a href="#fn3.1" name="fnref3.1" id="fnref3.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +tuft<a href="#fn3.1" id="fnref3.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> was preserved, was without ornament of any kind, with the exception of a solitary eagle’s plume, that crossed his crown, and depended over the left shoulder. A tomahawk and scalping knife, of English manufacture, were in @@ -1284,7 +1265,7 @@ symptoms of decay appeared to have yet weakened his manhood. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn3.1" id="fn3.1"></a> <a href="#fnref3.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn3.1"></a> <a href="#fnref3.1">[1]</a> The North American warrior caused the hair to be plucked from his whole body; a small tuft was left on the crown of his head, in order that his enemy might avail himself of it, in wrenching off the scalp in the event of his fall. The @@ -1300,7 +1281,7 @@ clothes, was like that of one who had known hardships and exertion from his earliest youth. His person, though muscular, was rather attenuated than full; but every nerve and muscle appeared strung and indurated by unremitted exposure and toil. He wore a hunting shirt of forest-green, fringed with faded -yellow<a href="#fn3.2" name="fnref3.2" id="fnref3.2"><sup>[2]</sup></a>, +yellow<a href="#fn3.2" id="fnref3.2"><sup>[2]</sup></a>, and a summer cap of skins which had been shorn of their fur. He also bore a knife in a girdle of wampum, like that which confined the scanty garments of the Indian, but no tomahawk. His moccasins were ornamented after the gay @@ -1308,7 +1289,7 @@ fashion of the natives, while the only part of his under dress which appeared below the hunting-frock was a pair of buckskin leggings, that laced at the sides, and which were gartered above the knees, with the sinews of a deer. A pouch and horn completed his personal accouterments, though a rifle of great -length<a href="#fn3.3" name="fnref3.3" id="fnref3.3"><sup>[3]</sup></a>, which +length<a href="#fn3.3" id="fnref3.3"><sup>[3]</sup></a>, which the theory of the more ingenious whites had taught them was the most dangerous of all firearms, leaned against a neighboring sapling. The eye of the hunter, or scout, whichever he might be, was small, quick, keen, and restless, roving @@ -1320,7 +1301,7 @@ honesty. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn3.2" id="fn3.2"></a> <a href="#fnref3.2">[2]</a> +<a id="fn3.2"></a> <a href="#fnref3.2">[2]</a> The hunting-shirt is a picturesque smock-frock, being shorter, and ornamented with fringes and tassels. The colors are intended to imitate the hues of the wood, with a view to concealment. Many corps of American riflemen have been @@ -1329,7 +1310,7 @@ hunting-shirt is frequently white. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn3.3" id="fn3.3"></a> <a href="#fnref3.3">[3]</a> +<a id="fn3.3"></a> <a href="#fnref3.3">[3]</a> The rifle of the army is short; that of the hunter is always long. </p> @@ -1340,7 +1321,7 @@ inhabited the country between the Hudson and the Potomac, and of which we shall give a free translation for the benefit of the reader; endeavoring, at the same time, to preserve some of the peculiarities, both of the individual and of the language. “Your fathers came from the setting sun, crossed the big -river<a href="#fn3.4" name="fnref3.4" id="fnref3.4"><sup>[4]</sup></a>, fought +river<a href="#fn3.4" id="fnref3.4"><sup>[4]</sup></a>, fought the people of the country, and took the land; and mine came from the red sky of the morning, over the salt lake, and did their work much after the fashion that had been set them by yours; then let God judge the matter between us, and @@ -1348,7 +1329,7 @@ friends spare their words!” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn3.4" id="fn3.4"></a> <a href="#fnref3.4">[4]</a> +<a id="fn3.4"></a> <a href="#fnref3.4">[4]</a> The Mississippi. The scout alludes to a tradition which is very popular among the tribes of the Atlantic states. Evidence of their Asiatic origin is deduced from the circumstances, though great uncertainty hangs over the whole history @@ -1638,7 +1619,7 @@ its blood. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0043.jpg" width="418" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0043.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 418px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -1695,10 +1676,10 @@ Iroquois!” <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap04"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap04"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Well go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove<br/> +“Well go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove<br> Till I torment thee for this injury.”—Midsummer Night’s Dream. </p> @@ -2040,7 +2021,7 @@ Heyward prepared to comply, though with strong disgust at the nature of the office he was compelled to execute. Each moment, however, pressed upon him a conviction of the critical situation in which he had suffered his invaluable trust to be involved through his own confidence. The sun had already -disappeared, and the woods, suddenly deprived of his light<a href="#fn4.1" name="fnref4.1" id="fnref4.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>, +disappeared, and the woods, suddenly deprived of his light<a href="#fn4.1" id="fnref4.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>, were assuming a dusky hue, which keenly reminded him that the hour the savage usually chose for his most barbarous and remorseless acts of vengeance or hostility, was speedily drawing near. Stimulated by apprehension, he left the @@ -2056,7 +2037,7 @@ the place where the sullen runner still stood, leaning against the tree. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn4.1" id="fn4.1"></a> <a href="#fnref4.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn4.1"></a> <a href="#fnref4.1">[1]</a> The scene of this tale was in the 42d degree of latitude, where the twilight is never of long continuation. </p> @@ -2214,11 +2195,11 @@ rifle. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap05"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap05"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2> <p class="poem"> -...”In such a night<br/> -Did This be fearfully o’ertrip the dew;<br/> +...”In such a night<br> +Did This be fearfully o’ertrip the dew;<br> And saw the lion’s shadow ere himself.”—Merchant of Venice </p> @@ -2587,12 +2568,12 @@ and I call him liar that says cowardly blood runs in the veins of a Delaware. You have driven their tribes from the seashore, and would now believe what their enemies say, that you may sleep at night upon an easy pillow. No, no; to me, every Indian who speaks a foreign tongue is an Iroquois, whether the -castle<a href="#fn5.1" name="fnref5.1" id="fnref5.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> of his +castle<a href="#fn5.1" id="fnref5.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> of his tribe be in Canada, or be in York.” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn5.1" id="fn5.1"></a> <a href="#fnref5.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn5.1"></a> <a href="#fnref5.1">[1]</a> The principal villages of the Indians are still called “castles” by the whites of New York. “Oneida castle” is no more than a scattered hamlet; but the name is in general use. @@ -2641,9 +2622,9 @@ up his voice, amid the eternal din of the waters, he sang aloud: </p> <p class="poem"> -“First born of Egypt, smite did he,<br /> -Of mankind, and of beast also:<br /> -O, Egypt! wonders sent ’midst thee,<br /> +“First born of Egypt, smite did he,<br > +Of mankind, and of beast also:<br > +O, Egypt! wonders sent ’midst thee,<br > On Pharaoh and his servants too!” </p> @@ -2675,11 +2656,11 @@ of a few yards, within as many feet of the water’s edge. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap06"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap06"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide;<br/> -He wales a portion with judicious care;<br/> +“Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide;<br> +He wales a portion with judicious care;<br> And ‘Let us worship God’, he says, with solemn air.”—Burns </p> @@ -2774,7 +2755,7 @@ they complied, “and might light the Mingoes to our undoing. Uncas, drop the blanket, and show the knaves its dark side. This is not such a supper as a major of the Royal Americans has a right to expect, but I’ve known stout detachments of the corps glad to eat their venison raw, and without a relish, -too<a href="#fn6.1" name="fnref6.1" id="fnref6.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>. Here, you +too<a href="#fn6.1" id="fnref6.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>. Here, you see, we have plenty of salt, and can make a quick broil. There’s fresh sassafras boughs for the ladies to sit on, which may not be as proud as their my-hog-guinea chairs, but which sends up a sweeter flavor, than the skin of any @@ -2785,7 +2766,7 @@ weary foot!” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn6.1" id="fn6.1"></a> <a href="#fnref6.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn6.1"></a> <a href="#fnref6.1">[1]</a> In vulgar parlance the condiments of a repast are called by the American “a relish,” substituting the thing for its effect. These provincial terms are frequently put in the mouths of the speakers, according to their @@ -2875,7 +2856,7 @@ steadily toward the sea, as was foreordained from the first foundation of the <p> While his auditors received a cheering assurance of the security of their place -of concealment from this untutored description of Glenn’s,<a href="#fn6.2" name="fnref6.2" id="fnref6.2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> +of concealment from this untutored description of Glenn’s,<a href="#fn6.2" id="fnref6.2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> they were much inclined to judge differently from Hawkeye, of its wild beauties. But they were not in a situation to suffer their thoughts to dwell on the charms of natural objects; and, as the scout had not found it necessary to @@ -2886,7 +2867,7 @@ more vulgar consideration of their supper. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn6.2" id="fn6.2"></a> <a href="#fnref6.2">[2]</a> +<a id="fn6.2"></a> <a href="#fnref6.2">[2]</a> Glenn’s Falls are on the Hudson, some forty or fifty miles above the head of tide, or that place where the river becomes navigable for sloops. The description of this picturesque and remarkable little cataract, as given by the @@ -3089,7 +3070,7 @@ suspense. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/5095.jpg" width="350" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/5095.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 350px; height: 550px"> <p class="caption">“What is it?” murmured Alice, after a few moments of terrible suspense.</p> </div> @@ -3252,11 +3233,11 @@ might prove of no avail. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap07"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap07"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“They do not sleep,<br/> -On yonder cliffs, a grizzly band,<br/> +“They do not sleep,<br> +On yonder cliffs, a grizzly band,<br> I see them sit.”—Gray </p> @@ -3614,12 +3595,12 @@ the little chasm between the two caves. your aim! Little powder, light lead, and a long arm, seldom fail of bringing the death screech from a Mingo! At least, such has been my experience with the creatur’s. Come, friends: let us to our covers, for no man can tell when -or where a Maqua<a href="#fn7.1" name="fnref7.1" id="fnref7.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +or where a Maqua<a href="#fn7.1" id="fnref7.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> will strike his blow.” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn7.1" id="fn7.1"></a> <a href="#fnref7.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn7.1"></a> <a href="#fnref7.1">[1]</a> Mingo was the Delaware term of the Five Nations. Maquas was the name given them by the Dutch. The French, from their first intercourse with them, called them Iroquois. @@ -3776,7 +3757,7 @@ and gradually exerting the power of their muscles for the mastery. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0089.jpg" width="444" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0089.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 444px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -3822,10 +3803,10 @@ of the rocks and shrubs. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap08"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap08"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“They linger yet,<br/> +“They linger yet,<br> Avengers of their native land.”—Gray </p> @@ -4338,11 +4319,11 @@ insensible Alice after her into the deepest recess of the inner cavern. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap09"></a>CHAPTER IX.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap09"></a>CHAPTER IX.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Be gay securely;<br/> -Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim’rous clouds,<br/> +“Be gay securely;<br> +Dispel, my fair, with smiles, the tim’rous clouds,<br> That hang on thy clear brow.”—Death of Agrippina </p> @@ -4731,11 +4712,11 @@ stood surrounded by the whole band of the triumphant Hurons. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap10"></a>CHAPTER X.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap10"></a>CHAPTER X.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn<br/> -As much as we this night have overwatched!”<br/> +“I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn<br> +As much as we this night have overwatched!”<br> —Midsummer Night’s Dream </p> @@ -5023,7 +5004,7 @@ struck it the preceding evening. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0123.jpg" width="439" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0123.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 439px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -5121,7 +5102,7 @@ mean to turn like a fox on his footsteps, and to carry to the rich and gray-headed Scotchman his daughters? Yes, Magua, I see it all, and I have already been thinking how so much wisdom and honesty should be repaid. First, the chief of William Henry will give as a great chief should for such a -service. The medal<a href="#fn10.1" name="fnref10.1" id="fnref10.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +service. The medal<a href="#fn10.1" id="fnref10.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> of Magua will no longer be of tin, but of beaten gold; his horn will run over with powder; dollars will be as plenty in his pouch as pebbles on the shore of Horican; and the deer will lick his hand, for they will know it to be vain to @@ -5130,7 +5111,7 @@ gratitude of the Scotchman, but I—yes, I will—” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn10.1" id="fn10.1"></a> <a href="#fnref10.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn10.1"></a> <a href="#fnref10.1">[1]</a> It has long been a practice with the whites to conciliate the important men of the Indians by presenting medals, which are worn in the place of their own rude ornaments. Those given by the English generally bear the impression of the @@ -5319,10 +5300,10 @@ by the whole party. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap11"></a>CHAPTER XI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap11"></a>CHAPTER XI.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Cursed be my tribe If I forgive him.”<br/> +“Cursed be my tribe If I forgive him.”<br> —Shylock </p> @@ -5936,7 +5917,7 @@ unconquerable disapprobation. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/5177.jpg" width="344" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/5177.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 344px; height: 550px"> <p class="caption">“Then die!” shouted Magua, hurling his tomahawk with violence at the unresisting speaker</p> </div> @@ -5965,11 +5946,11 @@ the faded leaves by his side. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap12"></a>CHAPTER XII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap12"></a>CHAPTER XII.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Clo.—I am gone, sire,<br/> -And anon, sire, I’ll be with you again.”<br/> +“Clo.—I am gone, sire,<br> +And anon, sire, I’ll be with you again.”<br> —Twelfth Night </p> @@ -6071,7 +6052,7 @@ the knife of Uncas reached his heart. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0149.jpg" width="442" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0149.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 442px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -6340,7 +6321,7 @@ without accident or interruption of any kind. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0161.jpg" width="434" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0161.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 434px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -6596,7 +6577,7 @@ heartfelt manner, and shook his head with vast satisfaction. <p> “Ah! you want the flavor that one gets by habit; the time was when I liked it as little as yourself; but I have come to my taste, and I now crave -it, as a deer does the licks<a href="#fn12.1" name="fnref12.1" id="fnref12.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>. +it, as a deer does the licks<a href="#fn12.1" id="fnref12.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>. Your high-spiced wines are not better liked than a red-skin relishes this water; especially when his natur’ is ailing. But Uncas has made his fire, and it is time we think of eating, for our journey is long, and all before @@ -6604,7 +6585,7 @@ us.” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn12.1" id="fn12.1"></a> <a href="#fnref12.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn12.1"></a> <a href="#fnref12.1">[1]</a> Many of the animals of the American forests resort to those spots where salt springs are found. These are called “licks” or “salt licks,” in the language of the country, from the circumstance that the @@ -6624,7 +6605,7 @@ men who ate in order to enable themselves to endure great and unremitting toil. <p> When this necessary, and, happily, grateful duty had been performed, each of the foresters stooped and took a long and parting draught at that solitary and -silent spring<a href="#fn12.2" name="fnref12.2" id="fnref12.2"><sup>[2]</sup></a>, +silent spring<a href="#fn12.2" id="fnref12.2"><sup>[2]</sup></a>, around which and its sister fountains, within fifty years, the wealth, beauty and talents of a hemisphere were to assemble in throngs, in pursuit of health and pleasure. Then Hawkeye announced his determination to proceed. The sisters @@ -6638,7 +6619,7 @@ commiseration or comment. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn12.2" id="fn12.2"></a> <a href="#fnref12.2">[2]</a> +<a id="fn12.2"></a> <a href="#fnref12.2">[2]</a> The scene of the foregoing incidents is on the spot where the village of Ballston now stands; one of the two principal watering places of America. </p> @@ -6647,10 +6628,10 @@ Ballston now stands; one of the two principal watering places of America. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap13"></a>CHAPTER XIII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap13"></a>CHAPTER XIII.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“I’ll seek a readier path.”<br/> +“I’ll seek a readier path.”<br> —Parnell </p> @@ -7157,16 +7138,16 @@ bury themselves in the gloom of the woods. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap14"></a>CHAPTER XIV.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap14"></a>CHAPTER XIV.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Guard.—Qui est la?<br/> -Puc. —Paisans, pauvres gens de France.”<br/> +“Guard.—Qui est la?<br> +Puc. —Paisans, pauvres gens de France.”<br> —King Henry VI </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/5215.jpg" width="348" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/5215.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 348px; height: 550px"> <p class="caption">The scout resumed his post in the advance</p> </div> @@ -7235,7 +7216,7 @@ stood on its banks before.” </p> <p> -“Three battles did we make with the Dutch-Frenchman<a href="#fn14.1" name="fnref14.1" id="fnref14.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +“Three battles did we make with the Dutch-Frenchman<a href="#fn14.1" id="fnref14.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> in a day,” continued Hawkeye, pursuing the train of his own thoughts, rather than replying to the remark of Duncan. “He met us hard by, in our outward march to ambush his advance, and scattered us, like driven deer, @@ -7249,7 +7230,7 @@ war.” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn14.1" id="fn14.1"></a> <a href="#fnref14.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn14.1"></a> <a href="#fnref14.1">[1]</a> Baron Dieskau, a German, in the service of France. A few years previously to the period of the tale, this officer was defeated by Sir William Johnson, of Johnstown, New York, on the shores of Lake George. @@ -7922,12 +7903,12 @@ now prepared!” <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap15"></a>CHAPTER XV.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap15"></a>CHAPTER XV.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Then go we in, to know his embassy;<br/> -Which I could, with ready guess, declare,<br/> -Before the Frenchmen speak a word of it.”<br/> +“Then go we in, to know his embassy;<br> +Which I could, with ready guess, declare,<br> +Before the Frenchmen speak a word of it.”<br> —King Henry V </p> @@ -7971,7 +7952,7 @@ The tourist, the valetudinarian, or the amateur of the beauties of nature, who, in the train of his four-in-hand, now rolls through the scenes we have attempted to describe, in quest of information, health, or pleasure, or floats steadily toward his object on those artificial waters which have sprung up -under the administration of a statesman<a href="#fn15.1" name="fnref15.1" id="fnref15.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +under the administration of a statesman<a href="#fn15.1" id="fnref15.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> who has dared to stake his political character on the hazardous issue, is not to suppose that his ancestors traversed those hills, or struggled with the same currents with equal facility. The transportation of a single heavy gun was @@ -7981,7 +7962,7 @@ ammunition, as to render it no more than a useless tube of unwieldy iron. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn15.1" id="fn15.1"></a> <a href="#fnref15.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn15.1"></a> <a href="#fnref15.1">[1]</a> Evidently the late De Witt Clinton, who died governor of New York in 1828. </p> @@ -8508,10 +8489,10 @@ quarters of his own commander. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap16"></a>CHAPTER XVI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap16"></a>CHAPTER XVI.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“EDG.—Before you fight the battle ope this letter.”<br/> +“EDG.—Before you fight the battle ope this letter.”<br> —Lear </p> @@ -8882,7 +8863,7 @@ Heyward!” </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0213.jpg" width="436" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0213.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 436px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -9179,12 +9160,12 @@ their honor. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap17"></a>CHAPTER XVII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap17"></a>CHAPTER XVII.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Weave we the woof.<br/> -The thread is spun.<br/> -The web is wove.<br/> +“Weave we the woof.<br> +The thread is spun.<br> +The web is wove.<br> The work is done.”—Gray </p> @@ -9855,7 +9836,7 @@ the dark-hair go to his tribe?” </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0233.jpg" width="445" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0233.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 445px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -9942,12 +9923,12 @@ drowned in the loud, long and piercing whoops of the triumphant savages. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap18"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap18"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Why, anything;<br/> -An honorable murderer, if you will;<br/> -For naught I did in hate, but all in honor.”<br/> +“Why, anything;<br> +An honorable murderer, if you will;<br> +For naught I did in hate, but all in honor.”<br> —Othello </p> @@ -10283,7 +10264,7 @@ Can you make anything of the tell-tale?” </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/5299.jpg" width="344" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/5299.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 344px; height: 550px"> <p class="caption">“Well, boy,” demanded the attentive scout; “what does it say? Can you make anything of the tell-tale?”</p> </div> @@ -10376,13 +10357,13 @@ follow some better trade.” “Yes,” said Hawkeye, dropping his rifle, and leaning on it with an air of visible contempt, “he will do their singing. Can he slay a buck for their dinner; journey by the moss on the beeches, or cut the throat of a -Huron? If not, the first catbird<a href="#fn18.1" name="fnref18.1" id="fnref18.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +Huron? If not, the first catbird<a href="#fn18.1" id="fnref18.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> he meets is the cleverer of the two. Well, boy, any signs of such a foundation?” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn18.1" id="fn18.1"></a> <a href="#fnref18.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn18.1"></a> <a href="#fnref18.1">[1]</a> The powers of the American mocking-bird are generally known. But the true mocking-bird is not found so far north as the state of New York, where it has, however, two substitutes of inferior excellence, the catbird, so often named by @@ -10546,13 +10527,13 @@ conducted them to the plain. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap19"></a>CHAPTER XIX.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap19"></a>CHAPTER XIX.</h2> <p class="poem"> “Salar.—Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his -flesh; what’s that good for?<br/> +flesh; what’s that good for?<br> Shy.—To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my -revenge.”<br/> +revenge.”<br> —Merchant of Venice </p> @@ -11079,7 +11060,7 @@ their departing speedily, and in a manner that should leave no trail. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/5015.jpg" width="345" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/5015.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 345px; height: 550px"> <p class="caption">The Mohicans listened gravely, and with countenances that reflected the sentiments of the speaker.</p> @@ -11149,11 +11130,11 @@ surrounding plain. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap20"></a>CHAPTER XX.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap20"></a>CHAPTER XX.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Land of Albania! let me bend mine eyes<br/> -On thee; thou rugged nurse of savage men!”<br/> +“Land of Albania! let me bend mine eyes<br> +On thee; thou rugged nurse of savage men!”<br> —Childe Harold </p> @@ -11288,7 +11269,7 @@ always where covers are good, and ammunition abundant.” It is possible that Heyward’s estimate of danger differed in some degree from that of the scout, for, instead of replying, he now sat in silence, while the canoe glided over several miles of water. Just as the day dawned, they -entered the narrows of the lake<a href="#fn20.1" name="fnref20.1" id="fnref20.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>, +entered the narrows of the lake<a href="#fn20.1" id="fnref20.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>, and stole swiftly and cautiously among their numberless little islands. It was by this road that Montcalm had retired with his army, and the adventurers knew not but he had left some of his Indians in ambush, to protect the rear of his @@ -11297,7 +11278,7 @@ with the customary silence of their guarded habits. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn20.1" id="fn20.1"></a> <a href="#fnref20.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn20.1"></a> <a href="#fnref20.1">[1]</a> The beauties of Lake George are well known to every American tourist. In the height of the mountains which surround it, and in artificial accessories, it is inferior to the finest of the Swiss and Italian lakes, while in outline and @@ -11434,7 +11415,7 @@ calculate.” </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0271.jpg" width="442" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0271.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 442px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -11766,10 +11747,10 @@ last in readiness to proceed. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap21"></a>CHAPTER XXI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap21"></a>CHAPTER XXI.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“If you find a man there, he shall die a flea’s death.”<br/> +“If you find a man there, he shall die a flea’s death.”<br> —Merry Wives of Windsor. </p> @@ -12287,12 +12268,12 @@ voices to proclaim His praise.” <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap22"></a>CHAPTER XXII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap22"></a>CHAPTER XXII.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Bot.—Abibl we all met?<br/> +“Bot.—Abibl we all met?<br> Qui.—Pat—pat; and here’s a marvelous convenient place for our -rehearsal.”<br/> +rehearsal.”<br> —Midsummer Night’s Dream </p> @@ -12898,15 +12879,15 @@ the “tents of the Philistines.” <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap23"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap23"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“But though the beast of game<br/> -The privilege of chase may claim;<br/> -Though space and law the stag we lend<br/> -Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend;<br/> -Whoever recked, where, how, or when<br/> -The prowling fox was trapped or slain?”<br/> +“But though the beast of game<br> +The privilege of chase may claim;<br> +Though space and law the stag we lend<br> +Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend;<br> +Whoever recked, where, how, or when<br> +The prowling fox was trapped or slain?”<br> —Lady of the Lake. </p> @@ -12977,7 +12958,7 @@ little more in advance. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0307.jpg" width="443" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0307.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 443px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -13284,7 +13265,7 @@ gibes, she commenced aloud: </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0319.jpg" width="448" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0319.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 448px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -13499,11 +13480,11 @@ tenants. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap24"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap24"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay<br/> -Dissolve the council, and their chief obey.”<br/> +“Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay<br> +Dissolve the council, and their chief obey.”<br> —Pope’s Iliad </p> @@ -14037,14 +14018,14 @@ and is at hand”; and precipitately left the cavern. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap25"></a>CHAPTER XXV.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap25"></a>CHAPTER XXV.</h2> <p class="poem"> “Snug.—Have you the lion’s part written? Pray you, if it be, -give it to me, for I am slow of study.<br/> -<br/> +give it to me, for I am slow of study.<br> +<br> Quince.—You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but -roaring.”<br/> +roaring.”<br> —Midsummer Night’s Dream. </p> @@ -14112,7 +14093,7 @@ bottom of his soul in his own peculiar expression of merriment. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0343.jpg" width="447" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0343.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 447px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -14739,17 +14720,17 @@ way together toward the distant village of the Delawares. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0359.jpg" width="436" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0359.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 436px; height: 550px"> </div> </div><!--end chapter--> <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap26"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap26"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Bot.—Let me play the lion too.”<br/> +“Bot.—Let me play the lion too.”<br> —Midsummer Night’s Dream </p> @@ -15005,7 +14986,7 @@ fierce growlings of the bear. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/5433.jpg" width="343" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/5433.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 343px; height: 550px"> <p class="caption">His keen eye rested on the shaggy monster.</p> </div> @@ -15312,11 +15293,11 @@ the forest. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap27"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap27"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“Ant. I shall remember: When C’sar says<br/> -Do this, it is performed.”<br/> +“Ant. I shall remember: When C’sar says<br> +Do this, it is performed.”<br> —Julius Caesar </p> @@ -15728,11 +15709,11 @@ take their lives. He promised a continuance of his favors, and admonished them to be grateful. After which, he spoke of the expedition in which he was himself engaged, and intimated, though with sufficient delicacy and circumlocution, the expediency of bestowing on their relative a portion of that wisdom for which -they were so renowned.<a href="#fn27.1" name="fnref27.1" id="fnref27.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +they were so renowned.<a href="#fn27.1" id="fnref27.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn27.1" id="fn27.1"></a> <a href="#fnref27.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn27.1"></a> <a href="#fnref27.1">[1]</a> These harangues of the beasts were frequent among the Indians. They often address their victims in this way, reproaching them for cowardice or commending their resolution, as they may happen to exhibit fortitude or the reverse, in @@ -15772,11 +15753,11 @@ the act, the grave features of Chingachgook from his mask of fur. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap28"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap28"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.</h2> <p class="poem"> “Brief, I pray for you; for you see, ’tis a busy time with -me.”<br/> +me.”<br> —Much Ado About Nothing. </p> @@ -15849,12 +15830,12 @@ those languages that were cultivated among the northern aborigines. <p> “The wise Huron is welcome,” said the Delaware, in the language of -the Maquas; “he is come to eat his ‘succotash’,<a href="#fn28.1" name="fnref28.1" id="fnref28.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +the Maquas; “he is come to eat his ‘succotash’,<a href="#fn28.1" id="fnref28.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> with his brothers of the lakes.” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn28.1" id="fn28.1"></a> <a href="#fnref28.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn28.1"></a> <a href="#fnref28.1">[1]</a> A dish composed of cracked corn and beans. It is much used also by the whites. By corn is meant maise. </p> @@ -16245,7 +16226,7 @@ the fame of this wise and just Delaware; a reputation that even proceeded so far as to bestow on him the rare gift of holding secret communion with the Great Spirit, and which has since transmitted his name, with some slight alteration, to the white usurpers of his ancient territory, as the imaginary -tutelar saint<a href="#fn28.2" name="fnref28.2" id="fnref28.2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> +tutelar saint<a href="#fn28.2" id="fnref28.2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> of a vast empire. The Huron chief, therefore, stepped eagerly out a little from the throng, to a spot whence he might catch a nearer glimpse of the features of the man, whose decision was likely to produce so deep an influence on his own @@ -16253,7 +16234,7 @@ fortunes. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn28.2" id="fn28.2"></a> <a href="#fnref28.2">[2]</a> +<a id="fn28.2"></a> <a href="#fnref28.2">[2]</a> The Americans sometimes called their tutelar saint Tamenay, a corruption of the name of the renowned chief here introduced. There are many traditions which speak of the character and power of Tamenund. @@ -16302,11 +16283,11 @@ open circle. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap29"></a>CHAPTER XXIX.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap29"></a>CHAPTER XXIX.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“The assembly seated, rising o’er the rest,<br/> -Achilles thus the king of men addressed.”<br/> +“The assembly seated, rising o’er the rest,<br> +Achilles thus the king of men addressed.”<br> —Pope’s Illiad </p> @@ -16825,7 +16806,7 @@ the miserable.” </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0407.jpg" width="442" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0407.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 442px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -16867,13 +16848,13 @@ Horican.” <p> “Many parching summers are come and gone,” continued the sage, “since I drank of the water of my own rivers. The children of -Minquon<a href="#fn29.1" name="fnref29.1" id="fnref29.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +Minquon<a href="#fn29.1" id="fnref29.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> are the justest white men, but they were thirsty and they took it to themselves. Do they follow us so far?” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn29.1" id="fn29.1"></a> <a href="#fnref29.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn29.1"></a> <a href="#fnref29.1">[1]</a> William Penn was termed Minquon by the Delawares, and, as he never used violence or injustice in his dealings with them, his reputation for probity passed into a proverb. The American is justly proud of the origin of his @@ -17011,12 +16992,12 @@ rustling in the surrounding forest. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap30"></a>CHAPTER XXX.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap30"></a>CHAPTER XXX.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“If you deny me, fie upon your law!<br/> -There is no force in the decrees of Venice:<br/> -I stand for judgment: answer, shall I have it?”<br/> +“If you deny me, fie upon your law!<br> +There is no force in the decrees of Venice:<br> +I stand for judgment: answer, shall I have it?”<br> —Merchant of Venice </p> @@ -17045,7 +17026,7 @@ the patriarch, without unclosing his eyes. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/5491.jpg" width="347" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/5491.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 347px; height: 550px"> <p class="caption">“With what tongue does the prisoner speak to the Manitou?”</p> </div> @@ -17185,11 +17166,11 @@ heard, more than at any meaning conveyed by the language of the prisoner. <p> “Uncas, the son of Chingachgook,” answered the captive modestly, turning from the nation, and bending his head in reverence to the other’s -character and years; “a son of the great Unamis.”<a href="#fn30.1" name="fnref30.1" id="fnref30.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +character and years; “a son of the great Unamis.”<a href="#fn30.1" id="fnref30.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn30.1" id="fn30.1"></a> <a href="#fnref30.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn30.1"></a> <a href="#fnref30.1">[1]</a> Turtle. </p> @@ -17712,12 +17693,12 @@ of Indian hospitality. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap31"></a>CHAPTER XXXI.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap31"></a>CHAPTER XXXI.</h2> <p class="poem"> “Flue.—Kill the poys and the luggage! ’Tis expressly against the law of arms; ’tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can -be offered in the ’orld.”<br/> +be offered in the ’orld.”<br> —King Henry V. </p> @@ -17743,7 +17724,7 @@ A young warrior at length issued from the lodge of Uncas; and, moving deliberately, with a sort of grave march, toward a dwarf pine that grew in the crevices of the rocky terrace, he tore the bark from its body, and then turned whence he came without speaking. He was soon followed by another, who stripped -the sapling of its branches, leaving it a naked and blazed<a href="#fn31.1" name="fnref31.1" id="fnref31.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> +the sapling of its branches, leaving it a naked and blazed<a href="#fn31.1" id="fnref31.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> trunk. A third colored the post with stripes of a dark red paint; all which indications of a hostile design in the leaders of the nation were received by the men without in a gloomy and ominous silence. Finally, the Mohican himself @@ -17752,7 +17733,7 @@ with one-half of his fine features hid under a cloud of threatening black. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn31.1" id="fn31.1"></a> <a href="#fnref31.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn31.1"></a> <a href="#fnref31.1">[1]</a> A tree which has been partially or entirely stripped of its bark is said, in the language of the country, to be “blazed.” The term is strictly English, for a horse is said to be blazed when it has a white mark. @@ -18102,12 +18083,12 @@ separated, each to his allotted station. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap32"></a>CHAPTER XXXII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap32"></a>CHAPTER XXXII.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase,<br/> -Till the great king, without a ransom paid,<br/> -To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid.”<br/> +“But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase,<br> +Till the great king, without a ransom paid,<br> +To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid.”<br> —Pope. </p> @@ -18400,7 +18381,7 @@ here, in what manner would you set them to work in this business?” <p> “Ay, there is white reason in what you say; but a man must ask himself, -in this wilderness, how many lives he can spare. No—horse<a href="#fn32.1" name="fnref32.1" id="fnref32.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>,” +in this wilderness, how many lives he can spare. No—horse<a href="#fn32.1" id="fnref32.1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>,” continued the scout, shaking his head, like one who mused; “horse, I am ashamed to say must sooner or later decide these scrimmages. The brutes are better than men, and to horse must we come at last. Put a shodden hoof on the @@ -18409,7 +18390,7 @@ to load it again.” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="fn32.1" id="fn32.1"></a> <a href="#fnref32.1">[1]</a> +<a id="fn32.1"></a> <a href="#fnref32.1">[1]</a> The American forest admits of the passage of horses, there being little underbrush, and few tangled brakes. The plan of Hawkeye is the one which has always proved the most successful in the battles between the whites and the @@ -18832,19 +18813,19 @@ which clung to the mountain, in its rapid flight to destruction. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap33"></a>CHAPTER XXXIII.</h2> +<h2><a id="chap33"></a>CHAPTER XXXIII.</h2> <p class="poem"> -“They fought, like brave men, long and well,<br/> -They piled that ground with Moslem slain,<br/> -They conquered—but Bozzaris fell,<br/> -Bleeding at every vein.<br/> -His few surviving comrades saw<br/> -His smile when rang their loud hurrah,<br/> -And the red field was won;<br/> -Then saw in death his eyelids close<br/> -Calmly, as to a night’s repose,<br/> -Like flowers at set of sun.”<br/> +“They fought, like brave men, long and well,<br> +They piled that ground with Moslem slain,<br> +They conquered—but Bozzaris fell,<br> +Bleeding at every vein.<br> +His few surviving comrades saw<br> +His smile when rang their loud hurrah,<br> +And the red field was won;<br> +Then saw in death his eyelids close<br> +Calmly, as to a night’s repose,<br> +Like flowers at set of sun.”<br> —Halleck. </p> @@ -19373,7 +19354,7 @@ for a time; but, Sagamore, you are not alone.” </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0461.jpg" width="444" height="550" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/0461.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 444px; height: 550px"> </div> <p> @@ -19400,449 +19381,6 @@ warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans.” </div><!--end chapter--> -<div style='display:block;margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS ***</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0;'>This file should be named 940-h.htm or 940-h.zip</div> -<div style='display:block;margin:1em 0;'>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in https://www.gutenberg.org/9/4/940/</div> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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