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my own? Don't speak to me, Mabel - don't speak to me, Jasper I've - let me go my way in peace, and like a man. seen your happiness, and that is a great deal, and I shall be able to bear my own sorrow all the better for it. No I'll never kiss you ag'in, Mabel, I'll never kiss you ag’in. Here's my hand, Jasper-squeeze it, boy, squeeze it; no fear of its giving way, for it's the hand of a man; and now, Mabel, do you take it,-nay, you must not do this ' - preventing Mabel from kissing it, and bathing it with her tears "you must not do this."

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"Pathfinder," asked Mabel, "when shall we see you again?"

"I've thought of that, too; yes, I've thought of that, I have. If the time should ever come when I can look upon you altogether as a sister, Mabel, or a child it might be better to say a child, since you're young enough to be my daughter - depend on it, I'll come back; for it would lighten my very heart to witness your gladness.

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This was the last the Pathfinder ever uttered to the ears of Jasper Western and Mabel Dunham. He turned away, as if the words choked him; and was quickly at the side of his friend. As soon as the latter saw him approach, he shouldered his own burden, and glided in among the trees without waiting to be spoken to. Mabel, her husband, and June, all watched the form of the Pathfinder, in the hope of receiving a parting gesture, or a stolen glance of the eye; but he did not look back. Once or twice they thought they saw his head shake, as one trembles in bitterness of spirit; and a toss of the hand was given, as if he knew that he was watched; but a tread whose vigor no sorrow could enfeeble, soon bore him out of view, and he vas lost in the depths of the forest.

Neither Jasper nor his wife ever beheld the Pathfinde again. They remained for another year on the banks of Ontario; and then the pressing solicitations of Cap induced them to join him in New York, where Jasper eventually became a successful and respected merchant. Thrice Ma

bel received valuable presents of furs, at intervals of years; and her feelings told her whence they came, though no name accompanied the gift. Later in life still, when the mother of several youths, she had occasion to visit the interior, and found herself on the banks of the Mohawk, accompanied by her sons, the eldest of whom was capable of being her protector. On that occasion she observed a man in a singular guise, watching her in the distance, with an intentness that induced her to inquire into his pursuits and character. She was told he was the most renowned hunter of that portion of the State it was after the Revolution a being of great purity of character, and of as marked peculiarities; and that he was known in that region of country by the name of the Leather-Stocking. Further than this Mrs. Western could not ascertain; though the distant glimpse and singular deportment of this unknown hunter gave her a sleepless night, and cast a shade of melancholy over her still lovely face, that lasted many a day.

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As for June, the double loss of husband and tribe produced the effect that Pathfinder had foreseen. She died in the cottage of Mabel, on the shores of the lake; and Jasper conveyed her body to the island, where he interred it by the side of that of Arrowhead.

Lundie lived to marry his ancient love, and retired, a war-worn and battered veteran: but his name has been rendered illustrious in our own time, by the deeds of a younger brother, who succeeded to his territorial title, which, however, was shortly after merged in one earned by his valor on the ocean.

APPENDIX

NOTE A, CHAPTER I.

"Indians of the well-known tribe of the Tuscaroras." Page 2. Cusick, the Tuscarora, gives the following account of his tribe: — " According to our traditions of many centuries, the red men were led by a certain man who stood highest in dignity to the Supreme Being, the Holder of Heaven, called Tharonyawagon. He divided the rivers and country among them, and instructed them in modes of living and customs, and ceremonies. The Tuscaroras were descended from the Iroquois. They wandered southward to what is now North Carolina. They kept up their alliance with the Five Nations. In 1712 the Tuscaroras attacked the whites on the Roanoke, and killed many. Captain Barnwell then defeated them, and soon after they removed northward, and joined their kindred the Five Nations. The Oneidas gave them lands in their own territory."

In 1708 the Tuscaroras held the country between the Neuse and Taw Rivers, and were supposed to number twelve hundred warriors, in fifteen towns. In 1711 they murdered Lawson, the surveyor, whose purposes they considered inimical to their rights as owners of the soil, and in one day, September, 1711, they murdered one hundred and thirty whites. They were attacked and defeated by Captain Barnwell, of South Carolina, at the head of six hundred militia, and six hundred friendly Indians. Six hundred Tuscaroras were made prisoners. Peace followed, but was soon broken. In 1712, Colonel Moore was sent against them with a force chiefly composed of southern Indians. In March, 1712, he took their principal fort of Naharuke, and two thirds of their warriors were made prisoners; six hundred were given as slaves to the South Carolina Indians. Peace followed, and the remaining third of the tribe fled to the northward, in 1714-17? 3 and were received as a sixth nation by the Iroquois Confederacy.

NOTE B, CHAPTER I.

"Ontario!' repeated the Arrow-head with emphasis." Page 8. The French called Ontario "The Lake of the Iroquois," and at a later day "Lake Frontenac," from the fort near the outlet. With the Indians it bore different names, in their different dialects. Cadarac qui" was a name it bore among the red men for several generations

after the English took possession of New York. The signification of Ontario is said to be the beautiful lake. The original word is reported to have been Skanandario, in the Mohawk dialect, and Ontario to be a derivative from this.

NOTE C, CHAPTER I.

"Pathfinder." Page 13.

The name given to Natty, in this romance, was entirely an invention of the author. But, by a singular coincidence, a title somewhat similar was actually borne by an Indian warrior in 1746. During that year Governor Clinton invited the Five Nations to a council at Albany; only three warriors appeared; one of these, an Oneida brave, made a formal speech to the governor, and presented him with two French scalps, taken at noonday, at the gates of Crown Point. This hero received in reward for his prowess, a laced hat, a laced coat, and a silver gorget. The warrior then requested an additional recompense. He begged that as a title of honor and as an especial reward for his having been the first in this campaign to strike a blow against the enemy, he might hereafter be known as the " Opener of the Path." This brave, the path-opener, continued a faithful ally of the English throughout the war.

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NOTE D, CHAPTER III.

"Fort Stanwix, the last military station on the Mohawk." Page

It was proposed to build a fort at the carrying place between the Mohawk and Wood Creek, quite early in the last century. In 1737 the step was considered anew, but it was not until after Oswego had been taken by the French that the colonial government actually built a fort on this ground. The task was intrusted to Brigadiergeneral Stanwix, and the work received his name. It dates from the veriod of the rebuilding of Fort Oswego, by the English, in 1758.

A city has now arisen on the same ground, to which the name of Rome has been most absurdly misapplied. Stanwix would have been a true and just name. There is a sort of treachery in this misapplication of grand and ancient historical names to small and new American villages; a treachery which is punished by the air of ridicule thrown over every American map by this means. There is something akin to historical forgery in such a course.

NOTE E, CHApter III.

"One of the canoes of bark which the Indians are in the habit of >onstructing." Page 31.

Even as late as 1808, when Lieutenant Wolsey and his party were

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