Crossword-Solution: PEACEMAKING 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 22

Will she permit an old acquaintance the privilege of a guest?” [Illustration] He saluted the lady with too good a grace to apprehend a repulse, and then proceeded: “This, Lady Ashton, is a peacemaking visit, and therefore I presume to introduce my cousin, the young Master of Ravenswood, to your favourable notice.” Lady Ashton could not choose but courtesy; but there was in her obeisance an air of haughtiness approaching to contemptuous repulse.

And so words ran high, and in the end the Señor Sarceda, who is third in command among us, declared that he would be no party to this peacemaking, but would be gone to Mexico with his servants, there to report to the viceroy.

The pope sent for Veri, and charged him to make peace with the Donati, at which Veri exhibited great astonishment, saying that he had no enmity against them, and that as pacification presupposes war, he did not know, there being no war between them, how peacemaking could be necessary.

Horrible Fate of one of our Enemies--Collecting in Cannibal--Haunted Forest--I Shoot a new Kingfisher, and a Bird of Paradise--Natives' Interest in Bird-Stuffing--Return Journey begun--Tree-house in a Notu Village--Peacemaking Ceremonies--Notu Village described--Our Allies sentenced for Cannibalism--Parting with Walsh and Clark.

But the interchange of drops of blood between large numbers of persons would obviously be inconvenient; and if the idea of substituting fowls and pigs for human victims had once taken root in their minds, it would have been but a small step to substitute their blood for human blood in the peacemaking ceremonies.