Note 16 — Section 151. RETURNED[1] KINDNESS.
Reading edition
[1] vergelten, insep. comp. str. v.
[2] unweit; newly, eben; ‘to settle’, here kolonisieren.
[3] at — confessing = on which occasion (wobei) he confessed.
[4] wegen erfolgloser Jagd.
[5] nothing to pay = no money for (zu, contracted with the dat. of the def. art.) paying.
[6] reproachful epithets, Scheltworte.
[7] for — mile, meilenweit in der Runde.
[8] ‘a man’, here = a guest. The verb ‘directed’ (heißen, str. v.) must be placed before the subject, since the subordinate clause precedes the principal one.
[9] to supply a person’s wants, für die Bedürfnisse eines Menschen sorgen.
[10] Say ‘As soon as the Indian had eaten (verzehren) his supper’.
[11] später.
[12] verschonen.
[13] in slavery = as a slave; ‘to detain’, here gefangen halten.
[14] Say ‘One day, however, came an Indian to the prisoner with the intimation (Weisung, f.) to follow him’. This construction is necessary to avoid the repetition of the pronoun ‘ihm’.
[15] nor — object = or else his intention.
[16] für.
[17] zu einer schönen Fläche urbar gemachter Felder.
[18] exile = settler.
[19] to take pity on a person, sich eines Menschen erbarmen; supply the adverb einmal (one day) before the verb.
[20] that = since, da; to repay a person, einem seine Schuld ab´tragen.