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pleasure in returning their kindness to us. We will go home with peaceable disposi- 

 tions towards our white brothers, and make our conduct hereafter more satisfactory 

 to them. We bid you all farewell, as it is the last time we shall see each other. 



The following account is from the " Bed Men of Iowa," pages 269-272 : 



The character of Wa-bo ki-e-Shiek, as drawn by those who knew him, was not re- 

 lieved by many good qualities. He was represented as the priest of assassination, 

 entertaining strong prejudices against the whites ; ready and willing to make mis- 

 chief and influence the Indians to resistance against the whites regardless of what 

 might be the result. This opinion of his character, however, is somewhat at va- 

 riance with a statement made by Maj. Thomas Forsythe, who had for many years 

 been an Indian trader, and until 1830 the agent of the Sacs and Foxes. In 1832 Major 

 Forsythe wrote : " Many a good meal has the Prophet given to the people traveling 

 past his village, and very many stray horses has he recovered from the Indians and 

 restored them to their rightful owners without asking any recompense whatever." 



As the Prophet of the Wabash enacted an important role among the followers of 

 Tecumseh, which ended in disaster to their cause at Tippecanoe, so the False Prophet 

 of Rock River doubtless exercised an influence over the superstitious minds of the 

 Ravages under Black Hawk, which culminated in their defeat and overthrow at Bad 

 Axe. 



After his release in August, 1833, he sank into obscurity and re- 

 moved with his tribe to Kansas, where he died about 1847. 



8. Nah-pope (Ne-o-pope), the Soup ; another of Black Hawk's principal advisers ; 

 and traveled with him, when he was a prisoner of war, to the Eastern 

 cities. He desired to be painted with a white flag in his hand. Painted in 

 1832. 



No plate of this picture is given in Catlin's Eight Years, and but little 

 mention of it. This picture was painted at Jefferson Barracks in 1832 ? 

 while Nah-pope was a prisoner with Black Hawk. In the Cartoon Cat- 

 alogue, page 9, he is given as Na-pope (Soup). 



Ne-A Pope, Naopope — Naapope, &c, or both — was brother to the Prophet (see 

 No. 7) and some years his junior ; he resembles him in height and figure, though he is 

 not so robust, and his face is more sharp; in wickedness of expression they arej?ar 

 nobilefratrum. 



When Mr. Catlin, the artist, was about taking the portrait of Naa-pope, he seized 

 the ball and chain that were fastened to his leg, aud, raising them on high, exclaimed, 

 with a look of scorn, "Make me so, and show me to the Great Father." On Mr. 

 Catlin's refusing to paint him as he wished, he kept varying his countenance with 

 grimaces to prevent him from catching a likeness.— Drake's Book of the Indians, book 

 4, page 163. 



Neapope was second in command to Black Hawk in all the expeditions against tho 

 whites. (Ibid., page 158.) See his statement on same page as to the beginning of the 

 Indian war of 1831-'32. 



The following account is condensed from " Eed Men of Iowa," pages 



272,273,274: 



Ne-o-pope. — The meaning of the name of this personage in English is Soup. Though 

 sometimes called a chief, he was really only a Sac brave. He was recognized as a 

 warrior of great skill and courage in Black Hawk's " British Band," in which he held 

 the position of second in command. Before the commencement of actual hostilities 

 against the United States, Neopope had been on a mission to the British aiTthorities 

 at Maiden, to consult as to the rights of the Indians (inland matters). He returned 

 bringing assurances that the Americans could not take their lands, except by purchase, 

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