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he proceeded to the middle of the street, from whence
he addressed the inhabitaQts of the place and thanked
them for tbeu* hospitality, assuring them of his regard
and good wishes for thetn, and adding, that *< If at any
time they should hear it said, that Pachgantschihilas
was an enemy to the believing [Christian] Indians ;
they should consider such words as lies !''

The reasoning of the Chieftain speaks for itsel£
His predictions m regard to the fate of the Christian
pela wares, were but too speedily accomplished. But
it was no fault of his ; and indeed, in 1783, when
Captain Pipe sent word to him not to suffer any of
them to leave his territory, he returned answer, with
his usual spirit that he never would prevent them from
going to their teachers. " And why did you expect
them ?" he added. **Did I not tell you beforehand,
that if you drove the teachers off, the believing In*
dians would follow them ? But you would not listen
to me, and now we lose both ! Who, think you,
is the cause of all the disasters, which have befallen
these people ! /say yQuJ — You ! who threatened them
with destruction ! Yqu^ who instigated the Wyan-
dots to act the treacherous part they did, — agreeing
with them, that, as a recompense for their services,
they should be entitled to all the plunder they could
lay hold of!"

In Dawson's Memoirs of Harrison, Buckongaheba
is mentioned as being present at a council of the
chie& of various trib^ called at Fort Wa}me
in 1803, for the purpose of ratifying a negotiation for
land, already proposed in a former one which met at
Vineennes. The Governor carried his point, chiefly
by the aid of an influential Miami chief, and by being
^ boldly seconded in every proposition by the Pottawata*-
mies^ who (as Mr. Dawson states,) ^ were entirely devoted
to the Governor,** It is not our intention here to discuss
at length the character of this transaction, which rath-
er belongs to the general history of the period. How
the Delaware Ch^f and the Shawanees understood il^



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