Do You Think He Gave Them Calico?

Red would have been a highly respected colour by all the groups along the coast. The red, they understood, was a mark of respect for the strong man or the most important man. And if you were to give them red, red cloth, calico, then that would be considered extremely a very good thing to do,. because it's showing respect, that you see them as equals. Now, clap would also give speeches when he met a new tribe, and they used hefi that that mollified them too.

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