White river, with his son Abner, and designed to have settled on the land given the Mahicans by the Miamis. Here he formed the plan of collecting all the eastern Indians in that region at a place where they might live in peace with the whites, and in fellowship with each other. Before Tecumseh began his labors, HENDRIK had sent a speech to his people on the subject, and was anxiously waiting for a reply, when his work was over

taken by the former and diverted into a gospel of hate. it

Then

was that the government paid to HENDRIK the highest com

pliment that could be given, by appointing him as the man most fit of all others to meet the eloquent chief of the Shawanoes on his own ground.

For three years he followed the footsteps of

Tecumseb and his brother, and so well and thoroughly did he combat their eloquence and their sophistry, that, had not the war of 1812 intervened, and the seductive influences of the British

been given to the aid of the Shawanoes, they would have been Of his labors in this field the Rev. John powerless for evil.

" It

Sergeant writes ments of Captain :

appears that through the judicious arrange HENDRIK, the influence of the prophet is

"

His biographer adds Captain HENDRIK nearly at an end." that the head men of the himself says various tribes do not join :

the prophet, but only the ignorant and unwary j that the mes sage of the Delaware* had already shut his mouth, and he believed that in the course of the next summer he would