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Rh time against him. In battle his enemies fall before him like rushes before the knife. His wigwams are decked with the heads of the  foes. For token, O Woosonametipom, he sends you these gifts.”

He gestured to Tamanso and the latter drew his knife from his belt and cut the lashings about the bundle that lay before him. Slowly, dramatically, he unrolled the rush matting while all within the wigwam craned  their heads to see. And then, gruesome and horrid, there lay to the gaze two dried and  withered human heads.