human
Was it a fight? Tyee demanded finally,--
gpt
Ho! ho! ho! So suddenly and so fiercely did Ounenk laugh that every voice hushed.
human
Never was there such a fight! So I say, I, Ounenk, fighter beforetime of beasts and men. And ere I forget, let me speak fat words and wise. By fighting will the Sunlanders teach us Mandell Folk how to fight. And if we fight long enough, we shall be great fighters, even as the Sunlanders, or else we shall be--dead. Ho! ho! ho! It was a fight!
gpt
Where be thy brothers?
human
My brothers? They are not.
gpt
And Pome-Lee? cried one of the two Hungry Folk;
human
Pome-Lee, the son of my mother?
gpt
Pome-Lee is not,
human
And the Sunlanders?
gpt
The Sunlanders are not.
human
Then the ship of the Sunlanders, and the wealth and guns and things?
gpt
Neither the ship of the Sunlanders, nor the wealth and guns and things, was the unvarying response.
human
All are not. Nothing is. I only am.
gpt
And thou art a fool.
human
It may be so,
gpt
I have seen that which would well make me a fool.
human
We took no guns, O Tyee, he at last began;
gpt
But I, Ounenk, drove my spear through his back from behind. And in such fashion, one way and another, did we kill them all--all save the head man. And him we were about, many of us, and he was alone, when he made a great cry and broke through us, five or six dragging upon him, and ran down inside the ship. And then, when the wealth of the ship was ours, and only the head man down below whom we would kill presently, why then there was a sound as of all the guns in the world--a mighty sound! And like a bird I rose up in the air, and the living Mandell Folk, and the dead Sunlanders, the little kayaks, the big ship, the guns, the wealth--everything rose up in the air. So I say, I, Ounenk, who tell the tale, am the only one left.