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.

The hollowness of the former he boldly exposed, and the latter it was soon perceived that the Indian king was as astute and sagacious, as he was unmovable

he scornfully rejected ; so that

in the justice of his righteous demands.

This conviction forced

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upon his hearers, and then they yielded to the terms he down." He was the hero of the war of 1755, for while Hendrik boldly demanded the simple distribution of presents,

itself

laid

TEEDYUSCUNG wrung the liberties of his people from both his civilized and uncivilized enemies.

In the spring of 1758, TEEDYUSCUNG removed to Wyoming,

where, agreeably to his request and the conditions of treaty, a town had been built for him and his followers by the govern

ment of Pennsylvania.

Here he

lived

not unmindful of his

long cherished object, and here he was burned to death on the night of the iQth of April, 1763, while asleep in his lodge.

" The concurrent testimony of his time agrees in representing him as a man of marked ability, a brave warrior, a sagacious counsellor and a patriot among his people. Although he was