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feet by sundry sharp yells, expressive of serene contentment and perfect bliss. . All the way to the cabin he distributed sly _ smiles, nods and nudges to Ed. and Lizzie, to show them that he now understood ahe matter, and was content. An hour after the party had struck the back trail, with _ their prisoner riding in the center of the guard, his legs tied “under to the saddle-girth. CHAPTER VIII. : THE POTENT BOTTLE. — were a: GrenERAL HARRISON was seated in his tent, when an or- derly announced Captain Lewis as desiring an audience. At the first hint of Indian troubles, the General had col- lected a force of two thousand men—not eighteen thousand, as Tim had told Captain Wilson—and had marched into the Indian country. The attitude which the Indians had taken had alarnaed the white people in the country,and they really needed aid, for, since the time of the defeat of Harmer, Te- Cuméseh had been noted for his aversion to white people. ‘The acute American General knew that the English were at work among the Indians, and that no man among all their agents could approach Wilson in craft. He knew, too, the immense power of the Prophet over the credulous savages, and that he was bitterly opposed to the occupation of the land by the Yankees. On the occasion of the first visit of Harri- son to the Indian country, in a council at Vincennes, in 1811, ‘Tecumseh argued with great vigor against the sale of cer- tain lands, purchased from the Kickapoos and others. In his eloquent speech ‘he recited the wrongs of the Indians, the €ncroachments of the whites, and the manner in which the ‘Indians were yielding before them. In answer, the Governor said something which aroused the anger of the great chief, Who knew the statement to be wrong. In an instant the - tomahawk of Tecumseh flashed in the air, and about thirty chiefs drew their weapons. But, the General was too experi- CORICMOOOKS.COM AN