umseh. Thus he lived, this Indian Hannibal; thus he rose,
this Glory of his Race.

Chapter XVIII.

HOW THE EAGLE AND THE LION AND THE BIG BEAR FIGURED IN THE GREAT
NORTH-WEST.

Toward the close of a hazy October day, in the year 1813, two small
armies might have been seen, and according to history were seen, moving
along the banks of the river Thames. Not the Thames which, after winding
among the pleasure-grounds of the English gentry and through the great
city of London, under ever so many bridges, emptied its waters into the
German Ocean; but the Thames which, after winding among the
forest-slopes of Canada West and through or by no cities at all, nor
under any bridges whatever, discharged its waters into Lake St. Clair.
So, along the Canadian Thames, at the time just named, two small armies
were to be seen, each measuring ground with uncommon expedition; the
foremost hurriedly, being in loose retreat; the hindmost rapidly, being
in tight pursuit. Over the van of the retreating army ungallantly
dangled the crimson, lion-emblazoned banner of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland; over the van of the pursuing army gallantly
waved the tri-colored, star-emblazoned, eagle-capped flag of the United
States of America.

The Second War between Great Britain and the United States had now been
going on for many a tedious month; sometimes languidly, sometimes
spasmodically, never energetically. Like a slow, dull fever, it had
wasted and enfeebled the two countries without redounding more to the
profit of the one than to the glory of the other; and the glory being
too scant to be divided between them, they wisely left the crimson fog
to the humor of the winds. How the winds disposed of it, the world has
never heard.

And the great Indian sachem had become the ally of the little English
king. And why? Because the little English king and his rich people had
promised the great Indian sachem and his poor people to restore to them
their hereditary lands if they would take up the hatchet and help their
great father--the little English king--to wrest the lands in question
from the Americans, the children who had behaved so unbecomingly to the
great father thirty-seven years before. The hereditary lands in question
were in fact but the disputed territory, the principal cause of the
contests between the two white powers, hence not so much to be viewed as
a lost inheritance to be restored to the rightful owners as a