The latter named them, it is true, for men of their own people, and TEEDYUSCUNG they named Honest John yet they disliked and then feared them, for the Harrises were known to grow moody and resentful, and were heard to speak threatening words ;

as they saw their paternal acres passing out of their hands, and their hunting-grounds converted into pasture and plowed fields."

When the Moravians appeared at Bethlehem, TEEDYUSCUNG came to hear them

; soon after professed conversion and was bap His conversion, however, was not proof against the wrongs which his people had suffered, and when the offer of the

tized.

crown was made to him he readily accepted it, and became At the conferences which he attended, says the " TEEDYUSCUNG stood writer last quoted up as the champion of his people, fearlessly demanding restitution of their lands, or their leader.

:

an equivalent for their irreparable loss, and in addition the free exercise of the right to select, within the territory in dispute, a

The chieftain's imposing presence, his earnestness of appeal, and his impassioned oratory, as he plead the cause of the long-injured Lenape, evoked the admiration of

permanent home.

his enemies themselves.

Delaware, employing

this

He always spoke in the euphonious Castilian of the

new world to utter

the simple and expressive figures and tropes of the native rhe

with which his harangues were replete, although he was It would almost conversant with the white man's speech. toric

appear, from the minutes of these conferences, that the English to evade the point at issue, and to conciliate artfully attempted the indignant chieftain by fair speeches and uncertain promises.