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Saturday 25 August 2007

Moanahonga 'The Great Walker'

An Iowa warrior, known to the whites as Big Neck, and called also by his people Winaugusconey ('Man not afraid to travel'), because he was wont to take long trips alone, relying on his own prowess and prodigious strength. While he was of lowly birth he was exceedingly ambitious and contended for the honours and dignity for which his courage and address fitted him, but which his fellow tribesmen were loth to accord, wherefore he built a lodge apart from the rest and collected about him a band of admirers over whom he exercised the authority of chief.