Fox texts / by William Jones.

  • William Jones
Date:
1907
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Credit: Fox texts / by William Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his son! He went up to where he was. “Hold!” he said to the Peorias; “you are hurting my son!” Then they untied him (and) took him home. As they went in, two women were seated there. “Here in between sit you down,” he was told. And so he had two wives. They cooked for him, and the food was delicious that they cooked for him. His very look was the same as that of the Peoria chief. And so he married two Peoria women; he had two wives at the same time • and he became a chief. And as for White-Robe, they took him to a tree, to a hickory-tree. And they tied him fast to it. “And you are only hungry?” he was told. “That is all.” Thereupon (his flesh) was cut from him, first from his hip, and he ate it all; then off the calves of the legs, that too did he eat up; then of the biceps; then the flesh of the elbows to the wrist; then of the belly; then of the loins; then of the cheeks; then the ears; then the nose; then his entrails were taken out; so was also the liver which was roasted for him; he simply went on eating when his entrails were taken out; it was his own flesh; then he ate up his heart •, and he ate all his tongue, and he ate up the flesh about his mouth. Only the bones were left bound to the tree. Thereupon they went after mats made of flag-reed that they might wrap the bones up in. The Peorias assembled together and looked upon White-Robe’s skeleton. “Speak to it,” they said to the old man. He went over there and said, “Well, White-Robe.” “What (is it)?” “Why, you shall be burned, and with you your town.” “Oh, no,” said White-Robe. “I shall burn, and with me you and your towns one after another.” Then the tree wheeled round.
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