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Updated: June 28, 2025
The white flag of the Bourbons floated over the compact little palisaded town, with its population of soldiers and fur-traders; and from the blockhouses which served as bastions, one saw on either hand the small solid dwellings of the habitants, ranged at intervals along the margin of the water; while at a little distance three Indian villages Ottawa, Pottawattamie, and Wyandot curled their wigwam smoke into the pure summer air.
"And here, you think, Pigeonswing, that we shall be safe during the day?" demanded le Bourdon, approaching the fallen tree on which the Indian had taken his seat. "Sartain no Pottawattamie come here. Too wet. Don't like wet. An't duck, or goose like dry land, juss like squaw. Dis good 'baccy, Bourdon hope you got more for friend."
Perhaps he does not know that there are three less now than there were a moon since. Crowsfeather took three at Chicago. Many scalps were taken there. The Yankees must be plentier than the buffaloes on the great prairies, if they can lose so many scalps often, and send forth their warriors. I am a Pottawattamie. My brothers know that tribe. It is not a tribe of Jews, but a tribe of Injins.
Cloud conferred a moment with the two principal chiefs; then he turned eagerly to the bee-hunter, saying "All good, but want to hear more want to l'arn more want to SEE more." "Name your wants freely, Pottawattamie," answered le Bourdon, with dignity, "they shall be satisfied." "Want to see want to TASTE whiskey spring see won't do want to TASTE"
Bess reason in world Pottawattamie dig up hatchet ag'in' Great Fadder at Wash'ton dat no good reason why take his scalp, eh?" In whispering these last words the Chippewa used so much energy, that the dogs again raised their heads from between their forepaws and growled.
Then there were the authors of "Lapis Lazuli," "The Aunts," "The Reformed," "The Conformed," "The Transformed," and "The Deformed;" with the editors of "The Hebdomad," "The Night Cap," "The Chrysalis," "The Real Maggot," and "The Seek no Further;" as also, "Junius," "Junius Brutus," "Lucius Junius Brutus," "Captain Kant," "Florio," the 'Author of the History of Billy Linkum Tweedle', the celebrated Pottawattamie Prophet, "Single Rhyme," a genius who had prudently rested his fame in verse, on a couplet composed of one line; besides divers amateurs and connoisseurs, Hajjis, who must be men of talents, as they had acquired all they knew, very much as American Eclipse gained his laurels on the turf; that is to say, by a free use of the whip and spur.
On the present occasion, le Bourdon felt far more uneasiness from the circumstance of having his abode known to Gershom Waring, a countryman and fellow-Christian, in one sense at least, than from its being known to the Chippewa and the Pottawattamie. The bears were constant and dangerous sources of annoyance to the bee-hunter.
"Did you keep out of the way, then, lest old Peter should get you at a job that is onsuitable to your manhood?" "Keep out of way of Pottawattamie," returned the Chippewa; "no want to lose scalp-radder take his'n." "But Peter says the Pottawattamies are all gone, and that we have no longer any reason to fear them; and this medicine-priest tells us, that what Peter says we can depend on for truth."
Dem Pottawattamie his friend when dey come to meet ole chief, no find him; but find Pigeonwing; got me when tired and 'sleep; got Elkfoot scalp wid me sorry for dat know scalp by scalp-lock, which had gray hair, and some mark. So put me in canoe, and meant to take Chippewa to Chicago to torture him but too much wind. So, when meet friend in t'odder canoe, come back here to wait little while."
"Certainly I remember the very instant when you left me. The Pottawattamie went on one path, and you went on another. I was glad of that, as you seemed to think he was not your friend." "Yes; good not to travel on same path as inimy, 'cause he quarrel sometime," coolly returned the Indian. "Dis time, path come together, somehow; and Pottawattamie lose he scalp."
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