![]() ![]() Please leave a comment telling us what you thought.The results of the trial revealed that a structured semi-interactive stroke prevention package improved lifestyle behavioral factors and adherence to medication, which might have long-term benefits. In the 1785 Treaty of Hopewell, Colonel Benjamin Hawkins wrote: “The hatchet shall be buried forever.” In 1761, a ‘Burying-the-Hatchet Ceremony’ took place that brought to an end more than seventy-five years of war between the British and Mi’kmag tribe in Nova Scotia. The Europeans came to know about this ceremonial practice that existed long before their settlement in the Americas as late as 1644, through a translation of Jesuit Relations, a monumental work by Thwaites who opines, “Proclaim that they wish to unite all the nations of the earth and to hurl the hatchet so far into the depths of the earth that it shall never again be seen in the future.” An actual hatchet-burying ceremony is mentioned in the writings of Samuel Sewall as thus: “I write to you of the Mischief the Mohawks did which occasioned Major Pynchon’s going to Albany, where meeting with the Sachem they came to an agreement and buried two Axes in the Ground one for the English another for themselves which ceremony to them is more significant and binding than all Articles of Peace, the hatchet being a principal weapon with them.” The idiom emerged in England in the 17 th century. That reminded me about Hiawatha, whom I studied when I was eight years old. As a symbolic gesture towards peace, they would bury their weapons under the roots of a large, white pine tree and an underground river washed them away. ![]() An old Iroquois legend tells of two leaders who convinced the five great nations of their time, namely, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca, to stop fighting and form a confederacy. ![]() Weapons were to be buried or cached in times of peace. It specifically concerns the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy and in Iroquois custom in general. But the net now taught me that there was a real story behind the origin of the idiom that is an allusion to the figurative or literal practice of squirrelling away weapons whenever there was cessation of hostilities among the native Americans in the Eastern United States. The idiom meant to make peace, to renounce enmity or become reconciled. I was aware of the meaning of the American English idiom ‘bury the hatchet’, the answer to the clue of 8d, since my childhood. However, some Americans tend to skip the ‘c’ in picture, making the two words sound identical when they were not intended to sound that way. They are, in fact, easily confused words. I learnt from the net that pitcher, the answer to the clue of 19a, and picture are two words that are close in spelling and pronunciation, but not identical. ![]() I now feel happy to present to you a full review of the same and would be delighted to have your worthwhile feedback and comments. A bit tougher Sunday puzzle of Dada that was still an enjoyable one to solve. This puzzle was published on 12 th Feb 2023īD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **** Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3199 A full review by Rahmat Ali ![]()
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