Beadle's Dime Novels No. 138: Tim, the Scout — page 25: what you’re looking at

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= SHAWNEE VILLAGE. 27 CHAPTER III, PROPHET’S TOWN. : Tus Prophet, brother of the great Tecumseh, was a man in the prime of life, who had an influence over the Indians scarcely second to that of the great chief himself. He was what in our day would have been called a skillful diplomatist, which is often English for “ great rascal.” And certainly, if any one deserved the title for well-sustained rascality, the Prophet was the man. He had nothing in common with the honorable nature of his great brother. The only thing in which they agreed was their unconquerable hatred to the whites. It must not be supposed that Tecumseh was an ally of the British through any great love for them. He knew that the English in Canada could not encroach upon the lands of the Indians as these Yankees were doing, who scored. the earth bare with their axes. The great chief hoped ‘to: com- bine against the Yankees in sufficient force to drive them from the country, and then trust to the strength of the tribes to keep the English at arm’s length. The plan was to drive out the Yankees first. Without that, all their other schemes fell to the ground. By the plan, all the families who had peopled this wild region were to fall before the edge of the hatchet. It always has been the plan of the Indians to make wars of extermination. Their contests are sharp, short and bloody. They leave behind them a crimson track. There is no thought of pity in their wild breasts. We can not deny that our ancestors gave them great cause to hate the white race, and. they carried their hate to extremity. It was their law... Prophet’s Town, at this time, was one of the largest Indian Villages in the nation. It was the residence of the Prophet, and was controlled by him. The crafty conduct of this man Was, Without doubt, equal to the treachery of Pontiac. While claiming to be friendly to the whites, he was making ready for their destruction. Nothing but the bravery and. good generalship of Harrison defeated the plan. Tecumseh, as comicbooks.con ”