MD3PAD 646-648

Toby G Levy tobylevy at juno.com
Thu Aug 24 00:11:30 CDT 2006


        Chapter 67 begins on page 646.  Within two weeks of their
warning by Tom Cresap, Mason and Dixon are met by a delegation of
Indians.  They are mostly Mohawk warriors and have been sent by Sir
William Johnson.  The Indians will remain with the crew until the end
of October. That's when they reach the Great  Warrior Path and are
allowed by the Indians to go no further.  Hugh Crawfford, an Indian
interpreter who is accompanying the Indians told Mason and Dixon back
when the Indians first arrived that as soon as they reached the war
path, they would be turned around.

        Mason attempts to reason with them. He says that they will be
across the path in a quarter of an hour and leave no trace of their
crossing it. They are not moved.  Mason asks how far is the path from
the Ohio river and he is told it is between thirty and forty miles.
Crawfford uses a slang phrase "Socko Stoombray" which the Hyperarts
Mason and Dixon alpha says is in proper Spanish "Se acostumbre." The
Alpha goes on to say that "The text translates this correctly, 'one gets
used to it.'"

        Mason is unnerved by the ability of the Indians to silently
appear and disappear. He complains to Wicks about their ghostliness.
Wicks says that Dixon appears to be quite comfortable in dealing with
the Indians.

        The Indians watch Mason and Dixon use their instruments and
comment that they have used Meridian lines as borders to separate
tribes.

        Here the Indians in the party are all named. Some have English
sounding names like Daniel, while others have distinctly Indian names
like Tondeghho. Others could be Welch or Dutch: Sachehaanddicks,
Hanenhereyowagh.

Toby



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