mentoes of the departed--The grave of an
infant boy--The Itean encampment--A sister's grief--Her
dream--She visits the grave by moonlight--Her
song--Enters a canoe and floats down the stream--A
captive, devoted to the "Great Star"--Pagan rite among
the Pawnees--Preparing for the sacrifice--Ignorant of
her fate--Gathering of the Pawnees to the festival--The
victim led to the stake--The terrible orgies
commence--Are suddenly interrupted--The captive
unbound--The flight--Parting with her deliverer--Meets
her friends--Reaches her home in safety--Petalesharro,
her deliverer--His person and character--Bloody rite
abolished.

THE HERMITESS OF ATHABASCA. 227

The wigwam of Kaf-ne-wah-go--His family--Tula, his only
daughter--O-ken-ah-ga, her husband--The Athapuscows
steal in at night--The chiefs murdered--Tula a
captive--Her infant boy murdered before her eyes--The
Chippeways in pursuit of the murderers--Following the
trail--The enemy overtaken--Retribution wreaked upon
the innocent--The deep grief of Tula--Her weary
marches--Her captors encamp--The tempest--She escapes
in the darkness--Vain attempts to discover her
retreat--Seeks to find her way back to her people--The
forest--A midnight intruder--She climbs a tree--Is
besieged--Assaulted--Repels and destroys the
enemy--Intricacies and dangers of the forest--An
opening, but no light--Bewildered--Resolves to go no
farther--Finds a convenient spot--builds a cabin--her
house-keeping--Her ingenuity, industry and taste--The
Hermitess discovered--Her solitude reluctantly
abandoned--Indian mode of obtaining a
wife--Journeyings--A new party--An unexpected meeting.

THE AZTEC PRINCESS,

OR

DESTINY FORESHADOWED.

Rapacious Spain
Followed her bold discoverer o'er the main;
A rabid race, fanatically bold,
And steeled to cruelty by lust of gold,
Traversed the waves, the unknown world explored,
The cross their standard, but their path the sword;
Their steps were graves; o'er prostrate realms they trod,
They worshipped Mammon, while they vowed to God.

THE AZTEC PRINCESS.

CHAPTER I.

BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE OF TECUICHPO.

~Tell me, ascribest thou influence to the stars?~

"Wo! wo! wo! to the imperial House of Tenochtitlan! Never sa