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SIBYL THE SAVAGE.

Tin-: little village ot Deepgrove, in Western Massachusetts, has a tragical colonial history. Legends cluster around the ancient mansions of Queen Anne's War, of the surprise by iho French and Indians and tbe long march to Canada through the winter snows. Tho Dcepgrovo pcoplo aro tenacious of theso memories, and have founded an antiquarian society for tho preservation of objecst of historical interest. Prominent in their museum is tbo Memorial Hall, dovoted to mural tablets bearing tbo names cf tho captive?. Ono of thoso stones bears the curt inscription, SIBYL. FORTU-STER.

She married a Savage'and became one,

f Thia brief legend stimulated my curifoaity. What could havo induced a gentle ; i'uritati maiden to marry au Indian ? I [ searched through all tho records and papers I belonging to the society for some clue, but ; could find no other relic of the girl than a j bit of lace, finely wrought by Sibyl at the :] ago of fourteen, and given to a member of I the family at Hadley before tho burning 'f of tbo viilago; and a miniature,^ poorly 1 painted, depicting a child with a high foroi head and thoughtful eyes. The miniature j and Ja.o hail been contributed to the museum by descendants of their first owners. Tho more I studied tho pathetic face of this unknown girl, tho greater bei camo my interest in her. Other of the I Deepgrove captives had married and settled | among the Indian,, but noneweieso held up to scorn as my poor Sibyl. I longed to find some excuse for her, and to defend her f f: 5m the reproach of becoming " a savage," j Later, her own defence fell into my hands I in a somewhat remarkable manner. I was spending the summer in Canada, and, always interested in what concerned the history of Deepgrove captives, I paid a visit to the Indian village of t'aughnawaga, the homo of the descendants of the very tribo which assisted the Frerch in their raid on Western Massachusetts. I chatted with the kindly priest, with tho taciturn chi.f, and the courteous surveyors. I wandered over La Crosse grounds, watched the launching of canoes, bought bright 1 bead-work, and asked everyone for legends ' and stories ond old writings. I was most unexpectedly rewarded by a rich discovery. The storekeeper had a quantity of paper, which I was welcome to examine. It had belonged to a former cure, but after hi 3 death, when tho desk had been ] reviewed by the new incumbent, a buahol

i| or to of trash had been turned out to the I storekeeper as wrapping paper. It had ll t-e.n slowly used all these years, brown 3 paper being greatly preferred, as this waß j closely written over on both side 3, and was I not considered quite nice enough for lard { and cheese. Prowling in the barrel brought * from under tho counter, I found several imperfect MSS that greatly interested me. One of these waa a neat littlo roll, closely : wii'.ten in English, and entitled "Tha Story of Sibyl Cceur de Femme." Across it a manly goose-quill had scrawled in "rench and in red ink, " Tho said Sibyl Cieur do Fcmme left this paper with mo at h.r death, praying that it be sent to her relatives in New England ; but as we know not who or where they may bo, I have seen lit to preserve it among my papers until called for. [Signed] .Cure." At Inst " Sibyl's Story " was called for. I know not [she wrote] whether any may miss me at home, for my father and mother were killed at the first onslaught, and my brother?, who wero redeemed and returned, wero of too tender on age to care greatly for me ; and yet would I fain hear news of my old playmates, and since that may not b_ would havo them know how I fare. And first, I must go back to a day in summer before tho taking of the town, when there came to my father's bouse two strangers apparelled as Dutchmen, travelling, as they said, from Renssalaerswyck on the Hudson to Boston, and demanding shelter over ni_*ht from the approaching storm. When we marvelled that they should have undertaken such a -journey on foot, they replied that their I horses had e3c.ped from them at their last I canjpir.g place. Of the two men, one was i young and handsome, in spite of his j tanned fa*-e and one hand badly scarred as , by firo and torture of the barbarous savages. j Me held himself i-ik-nt, but courteous, eatI ing little and talking still less, and that in j Such outlandish English that none could understand. Supptr had, the parson, ■ coming in to see us, essayed some I conversation, asking with which of the citizens of Albany they had acquaintance, upon which wo understood the name 3of Schuyler and Van Renssalaer; and as it chanced that Parson Williams had some | knowledge *>f John Schujler, he was the j bettor pleased, though disappointed to find ! they bore no letters. After the going of tho parson the younger man did divert the children by imitating the cry and song of divers wild birds and little beasties. He also drew for u3 with a coal upon the hearth, so that we could scarce tear ourselves from him, and thero was much clamour at our putting to bed. Rising the next morning by candle, as our custom was, and having laid the trenches for breakfast, my mother sent mo to the collar for provisions ; whero I found all in confusion and much good victuals carried a*_a)*, namely, a ham, a jug of cider, two neat's tongues, with a baking of bread, a ling's harslet, and three dressed geese. When I made report of this to my mother there was much dole and pother.. My little brother, also, being sent to rouse our guests, made us to be still moro con* .-tsrnat-d by the news that they were £on<_ having departed the house with our provender during tho night. Nor was my mother greatly mollified when sho found in one of her pans a paper addressed unto herself, containing a pass for one person on the Dutch ship Khyneland, from New York to

Rotterdam, signed by Johannes Schuyler. " For," quoth sho, " though tha preparation be greater than the damage, yet am I not likely soon to avail myself of this safe conduct, and we will find it but scanty eating in this large family." After this, search being made along the banks of the river, a small boat or skiff which had been moored theieabouts was discovered to havo boenßtolen ; and parties following down the stream found the boat bottom upwards on a rock, as though -.-.•recked by tbe storm and the violence of the current. But the men, or their bodies, did thoy not find, so that it was never certainly known whether they were that night drowned, or whether they escaped f-ato to Canada : for it was now certainly bcliovtd that they were French spies. This belief was confirmed later on in this fashion. Mr Williams wrote to his friend, Mr Schuyler, of Albany, to know if he had knowledge of theso men. And he replied that the friendly Indians of the Five Nations, or Iroquois, had brought into Shinectady two prisoners, which they had taken on the shores of the great lakes ; which prisoners had boon in their power upwards of a twelvemonth, and had been very cruelly ill-treated by them. One of thorn was a Jesuit priest, of note in Canada for his zeal for the conver-

sion of the Indiana and for His astonishing journeys. The other was a eoureur de bois. as the Fronch call the lawless traders, who, withoutlicensefrom their governor, do traffic with the savages for peltries, selling the same to smugglers. When Mr and Mistress Wil'iima had read thus far they were scandalised to think to what excess of villuiny wo had given harbourage. Mr Williams read on, how Mr Schuyler bad offered

!to buy those captivee, and tbat the Iroquois woro well pleased to barter the priest for a keg of rum, two Dutch chee»e*>, and a , clock ; for, said thoy, he is so great an | cater, wo had bettor charge ourselves with I tho famine or the- pestilence. But the

young trader was the property of n chief's j widow, whose husband had been slain by the | French. She at the torture of the prisoners I had it in her powor to say whether one of thorn should dio or be given her as a slave. And sho, seoingthis man, by name Jacques Beheil, patiently endured all tho malice of th 8) wretches (nay, when she had herself suggested new torturos of moro frantic cruelty, and had burned off two of his fingers in a heated calumet), was filled with so ardent an admiration for his heroism that she choso him, not as her slave, but as her husband : claiming that ha should be adopted' in the tribe to fill the place of the dead chief. But Jacques BeJo.il did steadfastly rofuse to become her husband, declaring that ho wonld die first, and calling upon the Indians to put him to death. But the woman would not sufler th'rs, saying that if he would not be her husband, then should he be her slave, and in. the bitterness of her rebutment reserving him to daily experience or" every degradation and cruelty which her malice could in vont. Aud when he fell sick either from pity or the fear that he might by death escape her persecutions, she had him brought to the habitations of the Dutch .seking physic and a chirurgeon to recover him ol his illness. Mr Schuyler said, moreove", that ho did his endeavour to purchase,lacquos Rein .1 from this woman,being greatly tendered In mind by his sad caso ; but sho would in no wise part with him, and the tribo set out for their country, carry ing him with them. Butin the middle of tho night he waa awakened by a tapping upon his window, and there found tbe young

man demanding succour and hiding, having escaped his foes. Whereupon ho in mercy secreted him, and when the Indians returned on tho morrow stoutly denied hi. presence The rage of tho chieftainess, thus defrauded of her victim, waa, he wrote, frightful to behold, sho swearing that Bhe would follow him to the confines of the other world—yea, and into hunting grounds of the dead—to wreak hor revenge upon him. When tho tribo finally doparted, boaring tho half crazed woman with thorn, Mr Schuyler related that ho brought theso escaped captives to Albany, and thero, supplying both with clothes and money, did securo passago for them on a vessel bound for Rotterdam. This ho did so that ho counted it not safe for two unprotected men to jouruoy through tho wilderness to Canada, and for that theso same Indians had brought tidings of unfriendly intontions on tho part of the French, and a design of tho Lato Count Frontenac, liko to bo carried out by his successor tho present governor, the Chevalier Yaudrouil, i of descending upon the unprotected frontier settlements of tho English.

Scarce was tho wonder of this event for gotten w*hen Mr Schuyler's fear waa realised, the Fronch overflowing us as a (bod ; burning, pillaging, and slaying. Separated from my kindred, I became tho captive of a young bravo, Woman's Heart; so called for his gontleness, and that he delighted not in cruelty and torture. The othor Indians derided him also for his kindness to me; for, finding that my feet wore half frozeu, he dragged me on a sledgo tho whole of the toilsome way. Nevertheless, for all this, I gave him scant thanks, for my heart was full of bitterness. While on the march I marked one of tho Fronch soldiers, whom methought I had seen elsewhere, so that I staredat him, untilhowasoutof countenance, and, falling behind the others, he came to me and took my band, and I saw that it was Jacques Belteil, whom we had harboured tho summer bofore, and who repaid our confidence with such villany. Notwithstanding, when he spoke to me fair and kindly, I was in such a despair of misery that meseemed I had encountered a true friend, and I besought him with tears to lid me out of tho power of my Indian master, which he promised to do ; making me to understand that when we were come to Canada, where he conld attain to his money, he would ransom me from the Indian, and Eec me cafe returned to my people. After this he walked the whole of tho way by my sledge, and I could see that he had learned more English words than formerly, for we made shift to understand each other passing well. He parted also hia rations with me, and sang French chansons, and sometimes with his gun brought down a bird, which he would lay in my lap. Moreover, at night he stood guard before tho wigwam of boughs Woman's Heart built for my shelter ; and though tho Indian liked these attentions indifferently well, yet he suffered bim, and they warmed themselves and cooked their food at the came camp-fire. And once Jacques Beloiil spake of tho victuals which hestolo from our cellar, saying that he nevor ato so good, ond he was sorry that we had not served ourselves of the passage on the Dutch ship to escape those sorrows, for that this sortie was not of his liking, for he had himself been captivated, and liked it not. Then I told him what wo had heard concerning him from Mr Schuyler. At the mention of tho chieftainess be crossed himself and looked behind, as though he felt her following. And verily at tbat time a strange Indian was walking silently behind him, and this savage did not belong to the tribe of Mahogs (Mohawks), who wero the allies of the French, but had como with them from whence none knew. He was an ill-favoured man, deeply pitted with small-pox, and noone'eompanied with him. At times Jacques Belteil flung him a bone or a morsel uf moose meat, and it was for this reason methought that he followed him like a shadow.

At last we came to a place where the commander, the Sieur Hortel de Rouville, divided tho band, taking the so'diers with him to Canada by one way, and sending the Indians and captives by another. At which parting it was mace known to me that perchance I cared more for this French soldier than beseemed mine own comfort. He too eeemed loath to go, and promised me that he would make all speed to find me again. Whon the dividanco was made the strange Indian feigned not to understand, and went with the army; but ho was presently sent back, and joined us again, and so we all came to the dwellings of the Indians, called the village of Cagnawaga, on the right bank of the St. Lawrence, near to the city of Mount Royal. Hero is a mission and a Jesuit priest, wherefore these Indians are called " praying lodians " by their neighbours. Here also, with the spray of the rapids blown in their faces, they pitch their lodges, and shoot the fall in their birchen boats. And surely I found kindness here, where I expected misery; for Woman's Heart gave me to his mother, an aged rquaw, whom I served as slave ; but she was old and bed-rid, and could not beat me, so thatjwhat I did I did of my own free will, and seeing that I shirked not my tasks and strove to pleasure her, she treated me moro daughter-wise. Woman's Heart too was brother-like, and gave me none occasions to bewail. But now something happened which caused me great uneasiness ; not for mysolf, indeed, but for one whom I cherished aa great concern, namely, tho young soldier, Jacques Belceil. The strange pock-marked Indian came often to our lodge, and with him others like him, who, Woman's Heart told me, were Iroquois, came from a far country as ambassadors, to treat with tho French concerning certain captives which they wished returned to them; and thoy had brought with them also their princess, a great woman in their country. This woman camo to us ono day, and my heart froze at tho beholding of her, for never in my li Fe had I seen so bloodthirsty a face, or one co devoid of nil charitableness. I know when I saw her that this was she who had so cruelly tortured Jacques Belceil, and I knew also by the famished look in her eyes that insomuch as she was capable of loving, if an insensate, tigerish passion be love, she loved that man. They talked some time in the-Iroquois language, and Woman's Heart asked me if I knew where Jacques Belceil dwelt, and I was glad to tell him tbat I knew not. Then he spake still moro with her, and I comprehended that he counselled her to wait patiently, for where I was Jacques Belceil would surely come, for he bad promised it. Then I waa in great fear, for meseemed to be the bait to draw my friend into this deadly trap and gin. Woman's Heart bade me place meat before h.3 guests, and I did so ; but the chieftainess discovered a long and sharp knife, hid in the folds of her robe and fastened about her neck by a cord, and she told us that as sbe hungered the knife hungered, and that she had vowed not to satisfy herself with flesh until this knife had eaten of Jacques Belccil's heart,

! After they had left us I reproached Woman's Heart lor aiding her murderous design-?, when he said that he would fain have the Frenchman dead, seeing-, if this were so, I might think kindly on him. Then I understood for tha first time that Woman's Heart cared for me, and was eaten with jealousy; and I feared him, though he was gentle and gave me none affront by word or act. And now spring is come, and tho bateaux began to go up the river, laden with furtraders, eoureurs de bois, and adventurers ; and something said within my heart that he would soon come. One day, when the Iroquois Indians were hunting in the forest, and I had gone with some of the Indians to Mcunt Royal to barter goods, he did come.

When I returned that evening I found the Iroquois pulling to pieces their lodge and preparing to depart hastily. And when I asked Woman's Heart the meaning of this, he told me that while we were all away there arrived a bateaux of coureurs de bois, and that Jacques Belceil was with them ; that be sought the cure, and talked with him much,-as also with Women's Heart, and was in a great chafe that he could not find me ,* but that his companions would not stay, and carried him presently away with him. The Iroquois were angry, when they returned, to have missed him, and their princess had given orders to follow by the first light. Then I fell on my knees before WomaiTe Heart, and caught his hand, and begged him follow after, and if possible outstrip the Iroquois, and warn Jacques Belceil and save him. But he made answer moodily, "Wherefore? That you may be his squaw ?" Then my fear and despair were so great that I promised Woman's Heart that if ho saved my friend from his enemies, for my sake, then would I renounce all white people and civilieed life, and willingly become his wife.

With that ho roso up quickly, quitted the lodge, and returned presently with two young braves, his friends, and an Indian wench ; who, he said, should care for his mother during our absence; for that I should go with them, to see the business well done. At these tidings my heart leapt for joy, and I said "We will save him—we will save him J"

Now Jacques Bolcuil and his companions, being bound for Lake Nipissinge, had gone by tho way of St Anne's up thorivor Ottawa, and it was ovor this routo that tho Iroquois proposed to track them ; but YY oman s Heart waa of that opinion that, being strangers to tho country, thoy could never como up with the moro experienced voyagers, by reason of tho numerous portages, the donse forests and swamps, and tho crookedness and blindness of the way. His counsel, therefore, was that we should not attempt to follow, when we should undoubtedly fall in with tho Iroquois and excite their suspicions, but should rathor go bofore, taking tho longer but easier way up tho St. Lawrence and the great lakes, the LakoFrontenac (Ontario),- the Lac dv Dauphin (Erie), and tho • Lac d'Orleans (Huron), and so como against him before he could be made subject to any villany. There was another reason why this decision of Woman's Heart was good and sensible ; for that all along our route at convenient distances we found settlements, either of the French or Indians, where wo put in to provision ourselves ; whereas tho Ottawa throughout its entire course is a houseless wilderness. Our first stopping was at Fort do Galette, whero was tho formor mission of tho Abbe Piquet; thence past thousands of islands to the well garrisoned Fort Frontenac, and so by ways and villages whose names I do now recollect, I paddling often to aid tho othois, or fishing in the clear water to the portage of Toronto, and thonco by a long portago past tho groat cataract of Niagara. And surely in all my lifo I have seen nothing so awful aa theso Falls, coming straight down out of the hand of God, nnd filling the soul with amazement. Then came wo to the abandoned fort of Niagara, and here found we all in good condition as left by tho Chevalior do la Motthe ; the great cross in tho square, and the cabins empty, but not fallen in pieces. YYe entered into tho bakehouse, and I did bake biead in an oven tho first timo since my captivity, and it tasted exceeding good. It irked mo also to loavo theso civilisocl habitations thus empty to tho winds. So journeyed we on to the detroit of the lake, whero were fifty men who had mado a trading post for beaver and othor peltries, which thoy say they smuggle to the English, and that they create great havee among tho Indians hy supplying thorn with Dutch rum and French brandy in exchange for thoir commodities ; and indeed I liked not tho manner of life of those men, for they wore many of them drunken, and they quarrelled loudly among themselves, and we got away with all speed. Thus by stages, which itwould be tedious todescribe, wecameinJune to the settlement of Indians, of the Squirrel tribe on Lake Nipisssinge whero we had counted on lighting on ■Jacques Belief!. We heard, indeed, that he and bis companions had been there, but not finding the beaver as they had hoped, they had departed only four daya boforo us for Michilimakinoc. The chieftainess, other people, none had scon ; it was therefore to be surmised that they were still upon the way. Glad at heart that we had at loast outstripped thorn, we prepared to ascend the Lac d'Orleans.boundfofMichilimakinac, which ia a straight communicating botweon the Lac d'Orleans and the Lac dcs Illinois (Michigan). But hero a fresh disappointment awaited us, for we found that thoso wo sought had descended the Lac dcs Illinois, with the intention of pushing across tho country to tbe great rivor Colbert or Mississippi. Wo therefore redoubled our exertions, striving moat frantically to come up with thorn ; for should thoy onco attain tho Mississippi, we fearod lest they might pursue it to its vory mouth, such being the enticing stories brought back by tho Chevalier La Salle and others, how it waters the English settlements of Y'irginia and Carolina, and empties into tho Bay of Mexico. By hard rowing and good fortuno in

travel we came up to tho party before they

had reached the great rivßr. But here, also, a grievous disappointment befell us, for Jacques Belu-il was not with them, having parted from them with one other at Mfc-iilimakinac, to go up the Lake Royal, or Superior, in search of ores of copper, which were said to abound at tho head of this lake

So had we all our journey across tho Lac dcs Illinois for nothing, and as wo then thought worse tban nothing ; for it was very possible that the Iroquois, arriv-inj. later than we, had obtained surer guidance, and were now far in advance of us. But it did not so chanbe; for as wo returned wo met them, bound, as we had been, for tho country of the Illinois. When they saw us they challenged, and would know what we did in those waters ; and Woman's Heirt spoke them fair, but thoy were not satisfied. The chieftainess, also, when ebe saw me was the moro suspicious, and would know if we had seen Jacques Belceil, and whither wo were bound. To these questionings wo replied with lies: that Jaques Bela-il was gone down the Mississippi, and that we wore on our way home. With that they pressed on out of our sight; but the next morning we perceived that they had altored their course, and were returning, whethpr because they had given up the chaso, or were suspicious of our movemeuts, we could not rightly guess. Whon we reached Michilimakinac the summer was past, and the young braves who had coma with us would go no further but left us, and, with our boat, returned home. But though the wator was stormy by reason of tho autumn galep, we procured another canoe and §resse*_ on, Whon we turned into the suit Ste. Marre we perceived that there was a boat following us, nor had we gone far boforo it camo alongside, and we saw tho Iroquois. They spake not"to us as they easily outstripped us, and we made suro that they had received somo fresh informs tion ; and it turned out that so thoy bad, and from our own men. Now wero wo in greater trouble than ever, for our enemies were in advan.a, and for lack cf paddlors wo could not keep pace with them. But tbo very winds favoured us, for they presently encountered a storm, and were wrecked under the painted clifl., where tbe Indians resort for pipe-stones and for coloured earths for their war-paint. So tbat again we passed them, and came, just as winter was setting in, to a little settlement of the Sieur Dv Lutb, whero was a Jesuit {rest, ten Frenchmen, and a tribo of Friendly Indians. These received us kindly, and told us that Jacques Belceil and hie companion were gone into the bills with an Indian guide, in search of copper, but counselled us not to follow ns they would soon bo back, for that now th» ice was forming, and the snow would soon be upon us. It was plain that we must hide here this winter, but first I could not rest till we had found Jacques Belceil, and wo set out the next day with Indians of that village upon his trail. And now the cold was very bitter, 8 o tbat at night we had our noses frostbit, and often I thought to have perished, suffering as much as ever I did on the march from Deepgrove to Canada. At times we found his camp-fire, or tho liollowß where they had been, and this cheered us to press on ; but when we

I had nearly reached him the blinding snow came down, and we were compelled to wail. And while wo waited, who should come up with us but the Iroquois ! The chieftainess was very angry, for she saw plainly now that we were at cross-purposes; but there were so many of the friendly Indians with us tbat she dar. not give the word to hor men to attack us. And thero were we together, waiting the ceasing of thestorm to go further. Rightsurewaßltbat none of us would sleep until it was over, but tho snowing last3d four days, and we were fain to take rest by turns At the last the Iroquois did get two hours' start, and were off on snow-shoes through the forest, and we after so fast that wo soon came where we could hear the crackling of the branches which they broke in their march. Suddenly through all the forest there rang a yell so very hideous that I know tl_6y had attained to the object they sought.

"It is their war-cry!" I said, my knees knocking together under me.

" Nay," replied Woman'B Heart, " listen again ; it is not the shout of braves, but the yell of one squaw ;" and twice more that dreadful cry sounded, each time more distinct and frightful as we neared it.

And when we were come to a little cleared space we found the last camp of Jacques Belceil and his companions, under a shelving rock, where, having lost their means of making a fire, they had cowered together, and had all frozen to death in tbe storm. The Iroquois had brought out the bodies and stretched them upon blankets, and the chieftainess, standing over Jacques Belce'l, was brandishing her knife in the air and sinking. When she saw me she made at me, but Woman's Heart stood between, receiving a cut upon the arm ; and she went back again, singing that we two had followed Jacques Belceil for hate and love : many a league, but that hate was strongest, for whereas I must now pause, she would still follow through the hunting-grounds of the hereafter, there to find him and to do deadly mischief. With that Bhe stabbed herself with the knffe, and sank down upon the body of Jacques Belceil, her men running forward to sustain her.

After that litters were made for the four corpses, and we returned sorrowfully to the settlement, For though I had greatly

foarcd, and evon hated, this woman, yet her death made me to pity hor ; and was also a great wonder to mo, I having heard of many who died for love, but nevor of one who ctostroyod herself for hato, and that hor victim might not escape hor. And surely I like not to think of that unhappy ghost still following whero tho spirit of Jacques Belc.il may bo ; though tho priest tells me that ho being a good Christian, and she an unbaptised heathen, sho can nevor roach him. So wore they buriod all by tho lako shore at the settlement, with one cross to mark their graves; and meseemed that my heart was buried with Jacques Bel ceil, and tho death of tho chieftainess shamed mo as though eho had done somowhat for hato that I would not havo done for love, though T know that could my death havo saved him I would havo died gladly.

YY'oman's Heart and I were forced to bide at that placo until the breaking up of tho ico ; and I served as laundress to tho Frenchman, and ho made arrows and waited patiently tho hoaling of his wound. And though he had not fultilod his part of the bargan inaaving Jacques 8010-il from death, yet seeing it was no fault of his, and considering the many perils, dangers, and adventures which ho had passed through for my sake—yea, and his great patience, which claimed nothing—my hoart rolontod toward him and when tho spring camo tho priest united us in marriage, and we returned joyfully to our own homo. There we found that his mother had died, nnd ho mado me sit on her mat as mistroes of tho lodge. And surely ho has boon a most kind and gontle husband, and our boys nro bold and bravo, but gontle hearted also ; and I would not havo my lifo otherwise, for I am happy, save when I wake scared from my dreams, and think on the chieftainess and Jacques Belo>il.

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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 235, 6 October 1886, Page 4

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SIBYL THE SAVAGE. Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 235, 6 October 1886, Page 4

SIBYL THE SAVAGE. Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 235, 6 October 1886, Page 4