ver
grow dim. The alphabet he used was made of the rivers, the plains, the
forests, and the eternal heights. He started in his youth with his face
to the West; started toward where no trails had been blazed, where there
was naught to meet him but the wilderness, the wild beast, and the still
more savage man. He made his lonely camps by the rivers, and now it is
a fiction with those who sleep on the same grounds that the waters in
their flow murmur the great pathfinder's name. He followed the water
courses to their sources, and guided by them, learned where the
mountains bent their crests to make possible highways for the feet
of men. He climbed the mountains and "disputed with the eagles of the
crags" for points of observation; he met the wild beast and subdued
him; he met the savage of the plains and of the hills, and, in his own
person, gave him notice of his sovereignty in skill, in cunning and
in courage. To the red man he was the voice of fate. In him they saw a
materialized foreboding of their destiny. To them he was a voice crying
the coming of a race against which they could not prevail; before which
they were to be swept away.

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