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177. might tend to prevent the taking up Arms immediately against the American people." White Eyes, seeing the blow aimed against himself, once more assembled his Men, and told them: "that if they meant in earnest to go out, (as he observed some of them were preparing to do,) they should not go without him. he had taken peace measures in order to save the Nation from utter destruction. But if they believed that he was in the wrong, and gave more credit to vagabond fugitives, whom he knew to be such, than to himself, who was best acquainted with the real state of things -- if they had determined to follow their advice, and go out against the Americans, he would go out with them; but [strikethrough: yet] not like [strikethrough: after the manner of a Man or] the Bear hunter who sets [strikethrough: chase & setting] the Dogs on the Animal [strikethrough: for him] to be to beaten [strikethrough: them] about with his paws while he himself keeps at a [strikethrough: proper] safe distance*: no! he would himself lead them on, place himself in the front, and be the first who should fall. They only had to determine on what they meant to do; for his own Mind was fully made up not to survive his Nation, and he would not spend the remainder of a miserable life, in bewailing the total destruction of a brave people, who deserved a better fate.+ This

• here the blow aimed by Capt. Pipe at Capt. White Eyes, unclear back on Pipe.

+In Heckewelders history of Indian Nations, Chap. XV. page 139-40 the remarkable part of White Eyes' address, where he quotes a Bear-Chase, was accidentally omitted; this narrative not being in his hands at the time.