PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 You can not tell how old an Indian is by his 

 looks unless you are acquainted with his habits, 

 but they are octogenarians. At any rate they 

 gave accounts of events that had actually hap- 

 pened when and where treaties had been made. 

 When I spoke of the great tragedy at Fort Dear- 

 born one of the old warriors arose to his feet, 

 threw a blanket around him and began to pace 

 to and fro; finally he said in a saddened voice 

 that he was there. I drew from him some facts 

 that I never before had heard. He told how 

 they felt when Aajor Irwin passed through the 

 Kankakee swamps, notifying them to be ready 

 to start for their new home beyond the /Aisssis- 

 sippi river. I obtained much valuable informa- 

 tion from those two old warriors. One of them 

 then was a young warrior of seventeen summers. 

 He was with Elskwat-awa, the Prophet, when 

 they sent Winamac down the Wabash river to 

 Vincennes where they went in council circle 

 with Gen. Harrison. Later they both fought and 

 were survivors of the Battle of Tippecanoe, 



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