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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Many a man in Charlestown--a well-to-do man (applying the commercial standard of value)--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he muttered, a trifle dismayed by the perverse incongruities of fate." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He would have sent the boy to s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(signifying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are too many for me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lord! how the boy does yell!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When a few years ago the Governor of South Carolina, he said majestically, speaking in the Cherokee tongue but for the English names (he pronounced the title" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Goweno )," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goweno of South Carolina. It was not, however, merely in muscle that the young captive excelled. As Abram Varney thought of certain sterling manly traits of the highest type which this poor waif had developed here in this incongruous environment, one might suppose from the sheer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Drink with me a cup of wine, a ditty which he had heard in his half-forgotten childhood. The robust full tones gave no token of the draught made upon his endurance by the heavy exercise of the day, but he seemed a bit languid from the heat, and his doeskin shirt was thrown open ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Queetlees, who he understood from Colannah had come originally from Cumberland in England. With his mercantile cronies he had canvassed the question whether the queer, evidently distorted name could have been" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Peatley or" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you hear of any Queetlees in Charlestown?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is _you_ who should seek your kindred, Jan Queetlee! Varney said impulsively, calling him by his unaccustomed English name." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is _you_ who sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Colannah would never consent!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You live here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You cannot be serious, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would break old Colannah's heart, who has been like a father to me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What will you do, then, he asked slowly and significantly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man-killer!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They will fight each other, said Varney weightily," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mississippi Louisianians. He had, too, a censorious word for the French commercially--called them" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I came for that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For God's sake, what have I done?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do the English always?--you have robbed me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Robbed you of what? My God! let us go upstairs. I'll give it back, whatever it is, twice over, fourfold! Don't swing the candle around that way, Colannah! the powder will blow us and the whole trading-house into the Tennessee River." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I took the boy Jan Queetlee--why do I call him thus, instead of by the name he has earned for himself, the noble Otasite of Tennessee Town? --the old chief began as deliberately, as disregardfully of the surroundings as if seated under the boughs of one of the giant oaks on...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, the Cherokee resumed, with a changed aspect and a pathetic cadence," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am an old man, and I lean upon Otasite. My sons are all dead--one in the wars with the Muscogee and two slain by the Chickasaw. And the last he said to me, w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are satisfied here. You know the life. Like me, you love it. If I, who can choose, prefer it, why not you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I talk to you of the colonies I speak as a man does of a dream, Varney continued." }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "strolled into the deserted, dome-like place. Its walls, plastered with red clay, were yet more ruddy for a cast of the westering sun. The building was large enough to accommodate several hundred people, and around the walls were cane seats, deftly constructed and artificially wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am displeased with you, said Colannah sternly, lifting his dark, deeply sunken eyes to where the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Man-killer lay at full length on the cane settee." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You set me aside. You have no thoughts for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--His expression changed; he broke into sudden pleasant laughter, and with a rollicking stave of the song," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drink with me a cup of wine," }, { "from": "human", "value": "(Good!) cried Colannah, visibly refreshed, as if his ow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man-killer" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goweno" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "_ (said to signify" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jehovah" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the supreme moment of excitement he flung himself into the Tennessee River, and while eagerly sought by the emissaries of Colannah in the woods, he swam to Choté," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the city of refuge of the whole Cherokee nation, where the shedder of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(I am a great ada-wehi![6]) the young warrior would cry with his joyous grandiloquent gesture, waving his many braceleted right arm at full length as he held himself proudly erect." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "_ (I am dead). Then triumphantly," }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is it now, Attusah?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cowetchee," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sinica," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tamotlee," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Northward Warrior." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you see Colonel Grant, the Barbarous?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he proclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am a great ada-wehi! I see him! Of a surety I see him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And he is not dead?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He would be if I could get close enough with a bare pinc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hegh, sirs!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gude guide us! he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is fearfu' wark! The hellicat hempies are half starved!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "revealed certain intimations in his countenance of gentle nurture, no great pretensions truly, but betokening a higher grade of man than is usually found in the rank and file of an army. This fact resulted from the peculiar situation of the Scotch insurgents toward government af...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The auld randy besom! the soldier commented within himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But eh, I didna gie it to be thankit,--nae sic a fule as that comes to, neither!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not happy to be an ada-wehi! he confessed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An' isna he a skilly man?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look at that! cried the braggart, holding aloft his own work. He was carving a pipe from the soft stone of the region, which so lends itself to the purpose, hardening when heated." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chochoola," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reason was never so befuddled of aspect, civilization never so undesired as now. In their own expanded outlook at life, however, they could not afford to ignore the views of Atta-Kulla-Kulla, the advocate of all the newer methods, in so important a matter as the release of a Bri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Attusah!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(An old rabbit!) he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A little old rabbit ran down the slope. I turned the soldier into a rabbit, and he ran away. And I turned myself into a fish, and I swam away. Ha! _Tsida-wei-yu!_" }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as he passed. He had ample leisure for speculation, for the experienced animals of the pack-train required scant heed, so regularly they swung along in single file, and the wild whoops of their drivers were for the sake of personal encouragement and the simple joy which very you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ") from the den where the animal had bestowed himself among the fallen logs of a dwelling-house, half covered with great drifts of dead leaves; often an owl would cry out in alarm from some dark nook as the pack-train clattered past; and once a wolf with a stealthy and sinister t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "remained unkindled, and sundry misfortunes were attributed to this unprecedented neglect; an expert warrior, young and notably deft-handed, awkwardly shot himself with his own gun; the crops, cut short by a late and long-continued drought, were so meagre as to be hardly worth th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now hould yer tongue still, an' I'll do the talkin', said one of the white adventurers to the other, speaking peremptorily, but with a suave and delusive smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If yez weren't Frinch ye'd be a beautiful Englishman; but I hev got the adv...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If it plaze yer honor, said O'Kimmon in English, taking off his coonskin cap with a lavish flourish as a tall and stately Indian hastily garbed in fine raiment of the aboriginal type, a conspicuous article of which was a long feather-wrought mantle, both brilliant and delicate o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Me godson, the Governor o' South Carolina, Terence O'Kimmon resumed, lying quite recklessly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell the truth, for God's sake!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not used to it! 'T would give me me death o' cold!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, by the powers,--not English! exclaimed the Irishman impulsively, seeing he was already discovered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm me own glorious nation!--the pride o' the worruld,--I was born in the Emerald Isle, the gem o' the say! I'm an Oirishman from the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The intellects of the Frinch are so handsome! cried O'Kimmon, the tears of delighted laughter in his eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faix, that is what makes 'em so close kin to the Oirish!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A reward for hospitality we find in these young men," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Strangers to us, yet they requite us, for we treated them as our own," }, { "from": "human", "value": "They treat us as _their own!_ the croaking, satiric, half-smothered ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Had they desired to explore our land they would have asked our consent, the croaking voice of Kanoona resumed the antiphonal reproach." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They would not have brought upon us the hordes of British colonists, who would fain drive us from our...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did lie! he admitted, as unreservedly as it he were at confession." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But Oo-koo-koo, we will pay for what we've got. This is all of ut! An' faix, yez have thrated us well,--an' begorra, we would have axed yer consint, if we had dramed w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as he had there first missed the animal in the file, not one would go back with him to search the locality,--not for the horse, not for the peltry, not even to avert the displeasure of their employer in Charlestown. Barnett besought their aid for a time, urging the project of re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "itself a pallid visibility lingered in the open spaces where the trees were few, and gloomily showed the empty cabins, the deserted council-house, the vacant" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Somehow, turn as he would, this dim scene in the midst of the dense darkness o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "around and around the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to bear it outside to distribute it to the assembled people of Nilaque Great. Without was summer; the trees were full of green leaves; canoes were glancing along the shimmering river; the" }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was esteemed at an English trading-house down on the Eupharsee River as the best" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in any of the towns; this phrase" }, { "from": "human", "value": "expressing the united functions of alderman, chief of police, chairman of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "facts no more than the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I attended the ceremony by invitation. I had a place in the line of march--I walked beside the Great Bear as his shadow!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "_ But when he reached the advent upon the scene of the secondary hero, the Great Bear himself, very polite, speaking excellent Cherokee (" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The great Eeon-a said all that to you? he sneered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fire-water at the trading-house makes your heart very strong and your tongue crooked. This sounds to me like the language of a simple seequa, not the Great Bear--a mere bit of an op...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You, Tus-ka-sah, he retorted angrily," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and in its sunny sandy spaces sundry old men were placidly engaged in the game of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will tell you what you have come to tell me, the prophet said quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The spell on Amoyah does not work." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid of that Great Bear," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But Cheesto can still send you trouble if you have a wife," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, no, the specious Amoyah replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Everybody knows that a man's wife makes him all the trouble that he needs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I set the Great Bear after Amoyah for you! I made the Eeon-a acquainted with his boastful lies, and he bewitched Amoyah's ball-sticks that his fine play might come to nothing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why did you not instead bewitch the woman?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give me a belt!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(Dear friend) he said once in eager propitiation;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(Does your father yet live?) He spoke in a gentle voice and slowly, the Delaware language being unaccustomed to his lips." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tell the great saki...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(I am sent as a messenger) he declared urgently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give me a belt." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--could their rightful independence be recognized, reëstablished, and maintained. Therefore," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give me a belt!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He would not witness the game of chungke, expressly played in honor of his visit. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lenni Lenape?--I remember--I remember very well when you came from the West!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And here, he went on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which was vacant, with its open piazza-like building on each of the four sides. Two or three men were talking in the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "painted a vivid red. On the western side of the square the roof of the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "sho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Iroquois! Iroquois! --the characteristic exclamation of the Mengwe confederation, whence they take their modern and popular name, and signifying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have spoken! I have spoken!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of what did he talk? Tsiskwa fixed august eyes upon Savanukah as he repeated the query." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Am _I_ to remember of what young men talk?--the mad young men?--mad, mad--all quite mad!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "in his tendere...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he said, aping the endearments addressed to dog or horse which he had heard from the French officers at Fort Chartres, where he had recently been. Then suddenly in agitation:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, _Lowannachen_! (Oh, north wind!) he moaned, holding up both hands outstretched to the north." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, _wischiksil! Witschemil_!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(He has the crooked mouth! Oh, he has the crooked mouth!) Tscholens muttered between his set teeth as he crossed the open space and paused before the western" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the Cherokees--flitted down with its noiseless wings from out the sky and sat, a mere tuft of feathers and big round eyes, on one of the eaves, its shrill cry and convulsive chatter smote the night with a sudden affright--all the breathless listening spaces of the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must be raining," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(I shall go home) he said. And in explanation of this sudden resolution," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good speed to the journey of the _illau_ Tscholens!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A turbulent 'grandfather' has a stormy voice and makes the heart of a young man like me very poor for fear!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "described by Homer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aëtion's quoit --to hurl which bowl they vie," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and opines that instead of a sport it might" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "be described as" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Other eye-witnesses, however, vaunt the great beauty and grace of the game. Captain Bernard Romany chronicles with relish the dexte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Martin, who having preached Scripture till both he and his audience were heartily tired, was told at last that they knew very well that if they were good they would go up; if bad, down; that he could tell no more; that he had long plagued them with what they no ways understo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Cherokees must certainly starve or come into terms, and even in that case Colonel Grant thinks it is hardly in the power of the provincials to save them. He proposed in a few days to send for The Great Warrior (Oconostota) and The Little Carpenter (Atta-Kulla-Kulla) to come ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Annual Register in giving among State Papers the text of a treaty between Governor Lyttleton of South Carolina, Captain-General, etc., and Atta-Kulla-Kulla," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "dated at Fort Prince George, Dec. 26, 1759, adds in a note:" }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alas! Alas! we know now who they are, these _Wapinsis_ (East People) who came out of the sea to rob us of our lands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mattanikum was chief in 1645. He is called 'Mattahorn' by Holm, and 'horn' is not Lenapi!" }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't know she had a brother, sir--that is, living." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said Calhoun's recorded voice." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Undoubtedly, Murgatroyd. Undoubtedly! Whoever's on duty at the spaceport stepped out for a moment, or dropped dead, or did something equally inconvenient. We have to wait until he gets back or somebody else takes over." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said the recorded voice yet again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Somebody, said Calhoun darkly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Calling Med Ship, said a voice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Calling Med Ship _Esclipus Twenty_! Liner _Candida_ calling. Have you had an answer from ground?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We don't see anything wrong aground, the liner's voice complained," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll check, said Calhoun curtly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand by." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've been wondering, said the _Candida_ querulously," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll try to find out what's the matter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've got a passenger, repeated the _Candida_ aggrievedly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think, he said irritably into the communicator microphone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suspect I'll have to make an emergency landing. It could be something as trivial as a power failure-- but he knew that was wildly improbable--" }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've lost a lot of time, insisted the _Candida_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can you authorize us--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not yet, said Calhoun." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll tell you when I land." }, { "from": "hu...