Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . GENEEAL HARRISON. * A brancli of the Wabash, in Indiana. In 1811, the English,with the Indians who fought in the British service, were defeated bythe United States troops on the banks of this river. 24 Q 2 186 THRILLING ADVENTURES. It is said that at the last conference which Ge-neralHarrison Leld at Vincennes, Indiana, with the In-dians, Tecumseh, at the end of a long and animatedspeech, fo
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . GENEEAL HARRISON. * A brancli of the Wabash, in Indiana. In 1811, the English,with the Indians who fought in the British service, were defeated bythe United States troops on the banks of this river. 24 Q 2 186 THRILLING ADVENTURES. It is said that at the last conference which Ge-neralHarrison Leld at Vincennes, Indiana, with the In-dians, Tecumseh, at the end of a long and animatedspeech, found himself unprovided with a seat. Ob-serving the neglect, General Harrison ordered a chairto be placed for him, and requested him to accept it. Your father, said the interpreter, requests you to. take a chair. My father! replied the proud chief; the Sun is my father, and the Earth is my mother; TECIJMSEH. 187 I will repose upon her bosomand, saying this, hesat himself on the ground, in the Indian manner. Such was Tecumseh, who fell towards the close ofthe battle of the Thames,* in a personal combat withColonel Johnson of Kentucky. He was a Shawnee. Towards the close of the last century, CaptainThomas Brian of Kentucky was employed by theBritish government to survey certain lands in thecentral part of Ohio. Xot being so fortunate as tofind game for several successive days, his provisionsbecame scant, and at length were entirely directed his hunter to make another attempt toprocure subsistence, and to meet him and his partyat a particular spot; at which, after the labours ofthe day were over, he j^roposed to encamp for thenight. Towards evening the men became exhaustedwith hunger: they were in the midst of an uninhab-ited wilderness, and every circumstance conspired
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