"
"Ugh I go, but some day come back."
There was a long silence, then Rolf, "When shall we start?" and
the answer, "To-morrow night,"
Chapter 15. Bound for the North Woods
When Quonab left camp in the morning he went heavy laden, and the
trail he took led to Myanos. There was nothing surprising in it
when he appeared at Silas Peck's counter and offered for sale a
pair of snowshoes, a bundle of traps, some dishes of birch bark
and basswood, and a tom-tom, receiving in exchange some tea,
tobacco, gunpowder, and two dollars in cash. He turned without
comment, and soon was back in camp. He now took the kettle into
the woods and brought it back filled with bark, fresh chipped
from a butternut tree. Water was added, and the whole boiled
till it made a deep brown liquid. When this was cooled he poured
it into a flat dish, then said to Rolf: "Come now, I make you a
Sinawa."
With a soft rag the colour was laid on. Face, head, neck, and
hands were all at first intended, but Rolf said, "May as well do
the whole thing." So he stripped off; the yellow brown juice on
his white skin turned it a rich copper colour, and he was changed
into an Indian lad that none would have taken for Rolf Kittering.
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