Many things happen in swift succession, and the upshot is that Pocahontas is going with the corn-haired man to the pale people’s land, (and the evil pale man with them, tied up like a parcel), and some of the pale people are remaining with Kocoum’s tribe to learn their language and how to live in this land. Kocoum is deeply pleased to find that his Thomas has chosen to stay - to stay specifically with Kocoum, to sleep beside him and work beside him
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Thomas did not know what he expected when he declared his intent to stay with the red men - with Kocoum, specifically. To sleep beside him and work beside him, to learn his people’s ways and language, to give up England for this new land and new love. He knew his fellow countrymen would look on him with hatred - was he not going against the laws of God and man? - but he had no idea how the red men would treat him.
They treat him pretty well, actually. Apparently this sort of arrangement is neither unknown nor unconscionable among these people, and most of them are perfectly happy to talk to him and show him how to do things, to sit beside him and work beside him. And Kocoum is there. Kocoum, who is trying so hard to teach Thomas how to be a warrior - or at least a hunter. Thomas isn’t good at it, he knows, he’s never been good at this sort of thing, but he tries, because it makes Kocoum happy, and Kocoum is a pretty good teacher, really, and Thomas is - slowly - getting better
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Many things happen in swift succession, and the upshot is that Pocahontas is going with the corn-haired man to the pale people’s land, (and the evil pale man with them, tied up like a parcel), and some of the pale people are remaining with Kocoum’s tribe to learn their language and how to live in this land. Kocoum is deeply pleased to find that his Thomas has chosen to stay - to stay specifically with Kocoum, to sleep beside him and work beside him ( ... )
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They treat him pretty well, actually. Apparently this sort of arrangement is neither unknown nor unconscionable among these people, and most of them are perfectly happy to talk to him and show him how to do things, to sit beside him and work beside him. And Kocoum is there. Kocoum, who is trying so hard to teach Thomas how to be a warrior - or at least a hunter. Thomas isn’t good at it, he knows, he’s never been good at this sort of thing, but he tries, because it makes Kocoum happy, and Kocoum is a pretty good teacher, really, and Thomas is - slowly - getting better ( ... )
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