What is "werowance"

Usage examples of "werowance".

The werowance spoke again, pointing to the hills which were dimly seen through the mist.

I rose and, making my way to the werowance of the village, where he sat with his eyes fixed on the spectacle, told him that I was wearied and would go to my hut, to rest for the few hours that yet remained of the night.

As I drove my boat in between the sloop of the commander of Shirley Hundred and the canoe of the Nansemond werowance, the two bells then newly hung in the church began to peal and the drum to beat.

They never knew when a wife of the werowance, turned child by pride, unfolded a doeskin and showed Nantauquas a silver cup carved all over and set with colored stones.

Nantauquas looked for that of the werowance of the Paspaheghs, but found it not.

The Paspaheghs drew around us closer and closer, and the werowance clutched me by the shoulder.

In a sudden access of fury, aggravated by the jeers with which his fellows greeted his mishap, the savage turned upon his prisoner and would have stuck a knife into him, bound and helpless as he was, had not the werowance interfered.

With his eyes upon the werowance, Diccon told an old story of a piece of Paspahegh villainy and of the payment which the English exacted, and I laughed as at the most amusing thing in the world.

The werowance drew out the arrows from a gaudily painted and beaded quiver, stuck them into his belt, and dropped the quiver into the water.

Paspaheghs, and when they had returned as stately thanks, the werowance began a harangue for which I furnished the matter.

The werowance of the Paspaheghs rose to his feet, cast aside his mantle, and began to speak.

The werowance spoke again, pointing to the hills with the black houses upon them, dimly seen through the mist.

At a sign from the werowance men and women formed a rude procession, and followed us, who were to go upon a journey, to the edge of the village where the marsh began.

His gestures were incomprehensible to the young werowance, but the giant with the turkey feathers studied closely, then suddenly reached for a stick and drew in the dust the seven stars of the Big Dipper.

Pentaquod carried the disquieting news with him as they penetrated deeper into the swamp, and when they reached relatively solid ground on which they could camp, he went to the werowance and asked bluntly, What did you think, Orapak, when you saw the Great Canoe?