...of America

BEAVER, WASH., - the border of the Canadian province of British Columbia. - the Makah Indian Reservation.

In 1855, the Indian chief Seattle, who gave his name to the largest city in Washington, formerly called New York, declared to the European negotiators: "Every bit of this land is sacred... Every hill, valley or plain, every woods has been sanctified by some glorious or horrible event in the past. Even the rocks that seem mute and dead when they bake in the sun, tremble with extraordinary events linked to the life of my people... When the children of your children will suppose themselves alone in the fields, the shops, on the roads or in the silent forests, they will not be alone at all... At night, when all sound has died away in the streets of your villages, and when you think they are empty, they will swarm with the host of those who once lived there,  faithful to that sublime site. The white man will never be alone."

The sea,
                 murmur,
lamentation,
                 echo,
roar,
                 murmur.

[Mobile, Butor, M.]