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

'

be

brought down from the Wabash, to the ground from which his ancestors were created,' and so it proved. find nothing, in

We

the public histories of those times respecting Captain HENDRIK,

but

we do find that the battle of Tippecanoe was

hazarded

because the already waning power of Tecumseh required some desperate act ; and the eloquence of Captain HENDRIK, his influence as a Muh-he-ka-neew chief with the western Indians,

and the information communicated by Mr. Sergeant, take us c behind the scenes,' and show us at least one great cause of that waning.

All due honor to the

c

hero of Tippecanoe

' ;

but let not the faithful Mahican, who, by sapping and mining, x prepared the way for that victory, be forgotten." Stockbridge, Past and Present ; Stone's Life of Brant, u, 307.

APPENDIX.

In the war of 1812, Captain HENDRIK joined the American

army, was favorably noticed, and promoted to office. In all his public duties he never for a moment forgot his people, and one of his last acts was to write a history of his nation. In 1829, he removed to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he was gathered Roman of them all." What his