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 ANDKTEEVZSTHANGE. SOLEMN RITES OOMMENCED‘.  e 

‘ I.  ‘;titled” :_farrii';'1i(e_s,fme’;_§x‘..cl\‘1sive and con-

servative, for.‘ “cénturipjs‘,,i fr'en"ewf in ‘each,
generation their claims “_’to”‘a" jpeerage,’ the

gree, a “blner”' blood, than any hand, Brit-
ish or French, that ever planted the Red,
White and Blue within his territory.

But there are rare instances where this.

'rite of chieftainship has been conferred
upon outsiders, and the one I have in my

memory is the occasion when one of Eng-.
land’s young princes received this most ei-
alted honor that his mother’s India/n sub-.
The“ Duke of Con-'

jects could bestow.
naught, who was cheered by all "Canada
from ‘sea to sea” two years ago, has for

twenty-years been possessed of the right to

sit among the hereditary chiefs. in the great

council and tohave a voice in the adminis-

tration-of the aflfairs of the Six Nations.
Twenty years ago! ' My/childish‘ recollec-

tion of the ceremony consists of such rude-
v ; outlines .that'I*- fear-they would make but a
‘ ‘very’ unflnishedfsketch. .-11 reproduced un-

aided, but this ‘old-. yel',1ow'neW§p'aper bear-

« .; I sing the dateot Octobei:12,:?~'1869, ‘Will be»; ad-
‘ ' ,; 'm1_rab'le re,terenc_e,~.r:an"cl,  thetadditional
magic of having once.-=been..the property of"

the prince'hi‘m-salt,‘ and was :80;'nt;_-to one _'of
his favorite ’Mohawkgs W.i_,1'-h«t_he direction

written in .the old-fashioned" manner, on the

-wide white space near ‘a~'bi,g'capltal lettered
heading. ' The inkis beginning to fade, but
the writing, which is by the same pen as

the little message inscribed on the inner_

margin, -is still clear, with the firm English
curve in its lettering, well known as that of
the genial Arthur.

How he has changed since that day when
‘some strong arm lifted me up to the win-
dows and a kindly old gentleman took suf-

ficient interest in my childish‘ ‘curiosity to-

tell me which was_ ‘.‘the prince.” I cannot
recall what~I expected to see; ‘what I did
see was a slender, -pale-featured, delicate-
‘looking lad, garmented in ‘ a plain suit of
gray tweed and an unpretentious black felt
hat, which he lifted bashfully to the crowd
thatcheered with that strange wild, eerie
intonation ‘ that only Indian “ throats can

give. -

The very memory oi that cheer thrills me;

;now as‘ I fancy-abugle call must thrill a
1WB»1"h0I'86. I see again those grand old
llroquois chiefs in their savage dress, their
copper-colored faces dashed with red and
black paint, their only head covering a tuft
of eagle plumes that waved and swayed
with each motion of the wearer’s head, their
}metal tomahaws that gleamed in the yellow
bunlight, fascinating the eyes of theboyish
prince as the warriors crowded near, eager

Ioelasvhiflhlndand to tell himin broken,

  

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‘it,  fronrhis own shoulders a mag-

nitlcent ,sash~_fi9£ Indian workmanship 7i in-y  +:'§. I

be‘a2;is,*».xnoose»hair7and:’porcupin§ quills, and-=. ' ‘

, ‘accession of w_l1ig:h,,’.l1_a_s'f‘,'xi‘ever"‘been tweak-i ~ ‘ A
. enedby the intermixturé; bf" ‘race or blood.
,'I‘he' Iroquois Chief possesses a purer pedi-

_tie"it in a loose knot _beneath--histarm.

5 j“I‘hen stepped on to that scarletvcarpeting t._v v_
one, rich in years and renown, one whose : "ff-’;

‘privilege it was to adopt the young Brit-
isher into the Iroquois nation, one who had
been the speaker of the council for forty
years, who was called “the Mohawk War-
bler,” because of his exquisite language-a
veritable Indian Ruskin. That splendid
old veteran fought bravely for the British

‘flag in the long ago, so with pardonable

pride he took the prince's hand within his
own, and the strange, solemn rites com-
menced.

‘My ears have heard some of nature's love-

liest scngs——the wild splash of rapids in
great rivers as they leap over broken rocks
and cascade in murmuring eddies away to

the sea; the hushed melancholy of winds‘

in the forest pines away up in Northern

Canada; the torturing loneliness that mid- V T 

night airs breathe, when flapped through

the pinions of migrating night birds,  E

one is conscious of the far-oflfness of any

human habitation-—b‘ut' those sounds can-f 
not equal the wild, stran‘ge"euphony that."   .
fell ‘from the lips of the veteran chief a's.he  .13.
chanted the formula of that ordinance. _ 
Handinhand with the scion of English; i
royalty he ‘walked to and fro, his ,1'qw,“ 

monotonous tones, eerie and strange as a

wild bird’s call, his song supplement/ed.
from time to time by manifestations of ap- _t

proval from his confederate chiefs.

In accordance with the ancient rules the
novitiate was presented with some strings
of white Wampum by the. owner of the scar-
let “b1anket,”, with these words :. '

“As beads are pure, so we trust your life .

will be an honor to the tribe to which you
belong, as the clear sky proves a happiness
to many. Your name, ‘Kavakoudge,’ will
represent the flying sun, the great sun that
tramps from morning till night on the vast
dominions of your great mother. In giving
you this name we trust your path through
life may be bright and clear as the sun’s
brightest rays. It‘ will represent
the progress of the sun
its _ daily course under the guidance
of the Great Spirit, and put us in memory

of your journey from the far east to see us.’-

You have traveled with the sun toward us,
and as the sun does, flying," and lighting
the world in its course. Our people are de-
voted to her majesty’s‘ throne. [Loud indi-
cations of assent.] We always rely on the
kindness of Great Britain and believe in her
and in her people. We wish you prosperity
in this world.” .

' His royal highness hesitated for a me-

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