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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1890)
UH west shore. Ure dtl, for their tijorcasins had bn removed on moving on they pasocd up the ladder and left the filtering the roundl rom. The chief apjearcd to pity council room. When they had all departed the mem- them, for ho told them, in a low tone, to go and come horn of the council performed a second ceremonial of as quickly as they j,(-aw-J. prayers and religious exercises, which lasted untl the Inhadi started with unhesitating promptness, and morning sunshine streamed in through the open sky- if Attawano held ba k fr a moment hid cousin's hand light. At last the youthful neophytes were released, ujKri his shoulder restored hi courage instantly. Hide and, weary with suffering, but elated and proud of by side they n- across the fire-lx-ffiririklcd space their promotion, were sent away from the council Utwee i, thow rank of Zuni braves, with whom they chamber in charge of their guardian, iho war chief, were determined to I countwl as equals when this He led them home and bade them go to sleep and night of trial ended. "rcHt their hearts," while he went back to be present They put ihrir torched to tho fire and plaeed them, at the cloning of the council. Hitherto the chief had bUilng, in tho hand of two young warriors, right and treated his nephew and his son as nothing more than left, w ho Kin at ,. to wave them in the air, raining cluldren, but now ho addressed them with the language a chant of triumph and applause, for by this time it of resjiwt and tho manner of an equal, was apparent that Mb tho candidates were models of While the mothers of the two boys were spreading heroic young manhood, judged by tho Indian stan- their sheepskin beds, and preparing a lotion with dard. Hark and forth they swiftly ,,tMwj and lit the which to anoint their burns, Kiawa came and stood torches o,,o by one, treading that scorching path as if beside them, with a look of awed commiseration, say It had lirrn strewn with row instead of coals of fire ; ing- f"f Inhadi, at lea,t, had entmnl into the spirit of them, " What have they done to you.Inhadi? You are grim ceremony with all the stoical satisfaction of his lame I " r In eihibiting hi. jnmrrs of endurance, while Inhadi hoarsely, but exultingly, made answer- Attawano If not w ,rn , Ulio M ,,; b(, t , m r I , .t ,;hT? h" h"' whow face betrayed his suffering more JisfrjaM of suffrnng; and gentle natures may warrior, too? IW Attawano I" hln lZZZ rh f ln,M" mUCh fi,Wr " 1 Ul it;' "li1 Attaa WJ. " I t, ttf ' " a tear-without a lieir to his fathers honors, unless ho prove! unworthy " I).. .. n.. r v , uU l - Had not Urne it well. Inhadi When all the u,nhe. were reli.h,.!, and .11 the w i .u ? Iraves wer, waving then, aloft, a. Lir voir, , lldU " Upon hi8 Ul,lmd wrl!" the a....g in praise of youthful valor, the two " Vv 1m candidate, pItt, ,1PIIMN.,VPi , , Utn , , y'7;iM- 'ou n P if jour heart They wer,,iv.UithIl(miir by" tho ,dicino c "f Z llw "1 of ha ,n.do . s.er.1 U.n lh,lr foreheads, breatll 1 I "l ,,,a " -th' -nJ pnn .l,.l then, U, U worthand well sH ' tl T'7" U.rt tho counril and U tho r,h1 of war K,ch of if h, I " 1 knW lhat ver' wtI1' cvcn Ihnn was prntc! by tho war chief with a bundle of mattei ZuL ill U lh rvw. a. a formal ,ign 0f cnf. rring Uw hin, tho J M,,el,,a,,i V,'r brave " njht to rail himsrir a warrior of tho nation. Fram es Wilson. Then tho younjer warriors formed in single file Montan.'.T .ndca,t their thcono by wtlo, u,.n tho fir,; and th.i ffi