conceive a grand, difficult, and unselfish project, to labor for years with enthusiasm and prudence in attempting its execution ; enlist in it by the magnetism of personal influence great multitudes of various tribes ; to contend for it with unfaltering

to

valor longer than there was hope of success ; and to die fighting for it to the last, falling toward the enemy covered with wounds, to give proof of an heroic cast of character, then is the Shais

wanoe chief TECUMSEH, in whose veins flowed no blood that was not Indian, entitled to rank among heroes." *

The Six Nations were not without their great men, of whom King HENDRIK, or Soi-en-ga-rah-ta, who stood for so many years at the head of the Mohawks^

was one.

It is said that

1680, and that he was one of the chiefs who His father was a Mabican chief, visited England in I7io. called by his people The Wolf, who, either by captivity and

he was born

in

adoption became a attracted

member of the Mohawk family, or was fair charmer who became his wife,

thither by the

herself the

daughter of a king.

HENDRIK became king.

In the right of his mother,

When about twenty years of age,

and for half a century or more subsequently, he represented his people in council and in camp, coming down to the present time

model of Indian courage and the embodiment of Indian His greatest service to the English appears to have eloquence. a