Lo-To-Kah (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ... a bow and arrows, and I went alone into the depths of the forest. "I went many miles, and when night came I builded a fire and lay down by it to sleep. But I was so lonesome and longed so much for my wife, that I was minded to go back in the night and tell the people I would not be their chief. But I did not go, and I slept till the sun came up, and then I killed game and cooked it, and sat down to meditate again. In this way the days and nights passed, until the sun had risen and set four times, and I had made no choice. Then the night came on again, and I sat by my fire and brooded. It was a night of moonlight, and multitudes of stars shone in the sky above me. Away in the far distance I saw the white-topped mountains that the Spanish people call the Mountains of Silver. Far behind me lay the peaceful valley where my people were encamped, and all about me were the numberless trees of the forest. While I sat there musing and gazing away at the mountains, I heard a soft step in the leaves behind me; and before I could fit an arrow to my bow, there stood before me a woman as fair as any woman who has ever breathed the breath of life. She was a whiteskinned woman, and she was clad in finer garments than had ever been seen in the lands of the Indians. Her dress was of white, clinging silk; a black reboso was over her head; and on her white neck, and around her arms, and on her fingers, were jewels of so wonderful brightness that scarce could I look upon them. The woman smiled as she gazed upon me, and she said: "' You are Lo-To-Kah, and you are such a man as I had hoped you would be. I have journeyed great distances to meet you. I have arrayed myself so that I may seem fair in your eyes. Look upon me Am I not more beautiful than any woman you ever ...