ee his fiery eagle eyes, and I hear the flap of his heavy
wing; and I know that he hovers here to suck the blood of Terah, with
all his murderous Weettakos around him![3] But Tisquantum's charms are
too strong for him: he cannot approach the sick man now. Ha! Maatche-
Mahneto!' he cried--and again he fixed his glaring eyes on the dark
space in the far corner of the hut, from which the spectators had
shrunk trembling away--' Ha! spirit of evil! I behold thee--and I defy
thee! Terah is not thine; and my power has compelled thee to send the
_Ashkook,_[4] with his healing tongue, to lick my brother's wounds; and
_Wobsacuck,_ with eagle beak, to devour the venom that clogs his veins,
and makes his breath come short and thick. I feel them on my shoulders,
as they sit there, and stretch out their necks to do my bidding! Terah
shall live!'

[Footnote 1: _'Richtan,'_ supposed to signify old--'Ancient of Days'--
the Maker]

[Footnote 2: _Quachet,_ begone, or _march off;_ supposed to be the
sentence of condemnation uttered against the souls of the wicked, when
they present themselves, and _'knock at the door'_ that leads to the
Indian Paradise.]

[Footnote 3: _Weettako,_ a kind of vampire or devil, into which the
Crees and other tribes suppose all who have ever fed on human flesh to
be transformed after death.]

[Footnote 4: _Ashkooke,_ a demon in the form of a snake, who, with his
brother-fiend, _Wobsacuck,_ are supposed to be sent by Hobbamock to
heal the sick, when forced, by the potent spells of the great Powow, to
work good instead of evil.]

Tisquantum closed his wild oration with another loud and prolonged
yell, to which all the spectators, who crowded the sides of the hut,
replied by a short and yelping cry: and the Powow sank on the ground by
the side of his patient, faint and exhausted by the violent and
sustained exertions to which both his mind and body had been subjected
for several hours without intermission. The attendants, among whom
Jyanough was foremost, hastened to his assistance, and administered to
him some needful refreshment; and Henrich turned away, grieved and
disgusted, and fall of sympathy for his once heathen companion, who, he
now remembered, was standing by his side, and witnessing the wild and
degrading extravagances of a father whom she both loved and respected.

He looked into her deep expressive eyes, and saw that they were filled
with tears of humiliation and mental agony. How could it be