manners, entering heartily into the rude
amusements and athletic sports of his people. In the latter, such was
his strength and activity of body, he rarely met his equal; and in
hunting and wood-craft he was, even in the eyes of his hunter-race, a
marvel of skill and address. He was the very soul of integrity and
truth; and though born of a race proverbial for cunning and craft, he
was of a nature singularly frank and straightforward, as he showed by
the boldness and openness with which he was accustomed, even in the
presence of his enemies, to acknowledge and discuss his great project.

As a warrior-chieftain, he stands unrivaled in the barbarous traditions
of his race, and as an orator, with scarcely a superior. His oratory was
of the highest order, inasmuch as it was the outgrowth of a great
intellect, active, powerful, and wide-grasping in its operations, and
the outpouring of a mighty spirit, deep and earnest, pure and generous,
and often sublime in its emotions. Whenever he made the great mission of
his life the theme of his declamations--and he took every suitable
occasion for doing so--let his listeners be friends or foes, his
appearance, at all times striking and prepossessing in the extreme,
became as that of one inspired. His ample chest expanded with noble
feeling; every gesture of hip hand, every movement and posture of his
commanding form, grew eloquent with meaning. Unmasked of its habitual
cast of reserve, his handsome face, clear, strong, and firm in its
lines, yet flexible in its play of muscle and feature, reflected with
mirror-like distinctness the passing emotions of his heart. His eye,
eagle-like in its unflinching brightness, flashed forth the lightnings
of the fiery and haughty spirit within. Language, direct in its
unstudied simplicity, graphic and vigorous, and glowing with the
thoughts and images of a luminous though unpolished mind, flowed from
his lips majestic and resistless. Added to all was that awakening voice
whose echoes had so long resounded through thy great North-west. Now it
rang out, stern, abrupt, imperious, like the call of a trumpet to
battle; now softened down to tones broken, tender, and pitying as those
of a bereaved father sorrowing over his hapless children; then, as
visions of the utter extinction of his race would break upon his
prophetic soul, it would come wailing out like the despairing cry of a
Hebrew prophet lamenting the impending desolation of Zion.

Such was Tec