canoes, lashed side by side, with a large canopy extended over him and his three wives, where he sat in all his dignity, with the American flag waving over the bow. About twenty canoes followed in his train, filled with his followers, who made the "welkin ring" with their wild and savage songs. Proceeding up the river, they landed on the opposite side. After some time, they sailed directly across o Rock Island, the rowing being accompanied by the wild Indian Keokuk was the first to land, decorated in his ornaments.He then turned to his followers and said, The Great Spirit has sent our brother back. Let us shake hands in friendship." He then took Black Hawk by the hand, and having saluted the others, took his seat. His example was followed by his attendants. After smoking the pipe of friendship, they separated to meet in council the next day.

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The next day Keokuk with one hundred of his followers, Black Hawk and his party, met Major Garland in council, in a large room n the fort. Black Hawk and his son appeared quite dejected. After everal speeches, Major Garland, informed Black Hawk, that it was listinctly understood by all present, that henceforth, Keokuk, and not Black Hawk, was to be the principal Chief of the nation, that he must conform to his counsels, and that the tribe must no more be divided into two bands.

On this being interpreted to him the old man became completely infuriated. The spirit and vigor of his youth broke forth like a volcano. He exclaimed, with great emotion:

"I am a man-an old man-I will not conform to the councils of any one-I will act for myself-no one shall govern me—I am old— my hair is grey-I once gave counsels to my young men. Am I to conform to others? I shall soon go to the Great Spirit where I shall rest-what I said to our great father at Washington, I say again-I will always listen to him. I am done."

This was his last expiring struggle. He sat absorbed in his own feelings, when Keokuk spoke to him kindly in an under tone, and obtained leave to excuse his violence. This was done, and Black Hawk was told that he was now at liberty.

In the evening the several chiefs were invited by Major Garland to his quarters. About seven o'clock in the evening, they arrived, and took their seats in silence. Speeches were now made by PASHEPARHO and KEоKUK, in favor of a lasting friendship and perpetual peace with the United States, and congratulating Black Hawk and his friends upon their return to the tribe. Black Hawk then arose, and in a very calm and dejected manner, replied:

"I feel that I am an old man;-once I could speak, but now I have but little to say. To-day we met many of our brothers, and were glad to see them. I have listened to what my brothers have said: their hearts are good-they have been like Sacs since I left them, for they have taken care of my wife and children, who had no wigwam. I thank them for it. The Great Spirit knows that I thank them, and before the Sun gets behind the hills to-morrow, I shall see them-I

want to see them-I expected soon to return. I told our Great Father when in Washington that I would listen to his counsels-I now say to you I will listen to the counsels of Keokuk. I shall soon be far away-I shall have no village, no band-I shall live alone. I once listened to the Great Father (1) across the Great Waters. My father listened to him whose band was large. My band was once largenow I have no band. I thank our Great Father (2) for what he has done. He is old, I am old-we shall soon go to the Great Spirit, where we shall rest. He sent us through his great villages. We saw many white men, who treated us with kindness. We felt safe-we thank them. When they shall come to the Mississippi, they shall come to my wigwam. I have none now. When those who came with us return home, they will pass the place where my village once was. No one lives there now; all are gone. I give you my hand; we may never meet again. I shall long remember you. The Great Spirit will be with you and your women and children."

The party then separated in the most perfect understanding among themselves, and in fellowship and good feeling, to their homes beyond the Mississippi, never more to build their villages on the eastern side, where the great chieftain was born. (3) The war-whoop, which in 1832, reverberated along the vallies of the Illinois, the Rock river, the Wisconsin, and the Upper Mississippi, is now heard no more; and the name of Black Hawk, which once roused the frontier men to arms, has lost its terrors. A thousand steamers have taken the place of the frail bark canoe of the Indian, upon the Father of waters, and his great tributaries. Populous towns and cities occupy the sites of the meagre wigwam villages, and great and powerful commonwealths, inhabited by civilized and enlightened men, have been formed out of the territory, which, in the memory of many living, was the abode of the children of the forest, and the hunting ground of the roaming savage.-History of the West.

(1) The King of Great Britain

(2) President Jackson.

(3) Black Hawk was born about the year 1767, on a beautiful spot, on Rock River, near Dixon, Ho's

INDIANS OF THE WEST:

DESTRUCTION OF THE BUFFALOES, &c.

There are now not many Indians east of the Mississippi; most of them have moved to the west of that river. As you move up the Mississippi, the Chickasaws, the Seminoles, the Choctaws, the Creeks, and others, are westerly, on the Red River and the Arkansas River. Then come the Cherokees, Shawneese, Senecas, Quapaws, Oneidas, and Tuskaroras, the Camanchees, Pawnee Picts, Kiawees, Wicos, and Shoshonees being far west, nearer the Rocky Mountains.

The hunting grounds of the Sacs and Foxes lie between the rivers Mississippi and Missouri; while eastward are those of the Winnebagoes; and northward and northwest, the Chippewas and Sioux. On the Missouri, and other rivers, are the Osages, Kanzas, Delawares, Kickapoos, Ottos, Poncas, Pawneeloups, Grand Pawnees, republics. On the Upper Missouri, northward, are the Ricarees, who now have, also, the Mandan grounds. Near the Rocky Mountains. on the same river, are the Crows; next to them, the Shiennees; while further to the north may be found the Blackfeet, Blood Indians. Creeks, Ojibbeways, and Assinneboins.

HUNTING BUFFALOES.

Mr. CATLIN, in his "Letters," says:-"I have always counted myself a prudent man, yet I have often waked (as it were) out of the delirium of the chase (into which I had fallen. as into an agitated sleep, and through which I had passed as through a delightful dream.) where to have died would have been to have remained, riding on, without a struggle or a pang.

"In some of these, too, I have arisen from the prairie, covered with dirt and blood having severed company with gun and horse, the one lying some twenty or thirty feet from me with a broken stock, and the other coolly brousing on the grass at half a mile distance, without man, and without other beasts remaining in sight.

"For the novice in these scenes there is much danger of his limbs and his life, and he finds it a hard and desperate struggle that brings him in at the death of these huge monsters, except where it has been produced by hands that have acquired more slight and tact than his own.

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With the Indian, who had made this the every day sport and amusement of his life, there is less difficulty and less danger; he rides without losing his breath," and his unagitated hand deals certainty in its deadly blows.

The laso is a long thong of rawhide, of ten or fifteen yards in