d the Prophet. "I can talk to him; I can
bring darkness between him and me; I can put the sun under my feet; and
what white man can do this?"

This month of May, 1807, fifteen hundred Indians had visited the
Prophet. They came even from the Missouri River, and from the rivers
of Florida. A general up-rising of the tribes was feared.

Governor Harrison worked, sending many addresses. He could not stem
the tide set in motion by the Prophet and kept in motion by Tecumseh.

"My children," appealed Governor Harrison, "this business must be
stopped. You have called in a number of men from the most distant
people to listen to a fool, who speaks not the words of the Great
Spirit, but those of the devil and of the British agents. My children,
your conduct has much alarmed the white settlers near you. They desire
that you will send away those people, and if they wish to have the
impostor with them they can carry him. Let him go to the Lakes; he can
hear the British more distinctly."

"I am sorry that you listen to the advice of bad birds," answered the
Prophet, of the one eye and the cunning heart. "I never had a word
with the British, and I never sent for any Indians. They came here
themselves, to hear the words of the Great Spirit."

Tecumseh also made speeches, at the councils. Once he spoke for three
hours, accusing the whites of having broken many treaties. Some of his
sentences the interpreter refused to translate, they were so frank and
cutting. The teachings of the Prophet his brother were apparently all
for peace, and against evil practices such as drinking and warring; and
Governor Harrison could only wait, watchfully. But he did not like the
signs in the horizon. There were too many Indians traveling back and
forth.

The war of 1812 with Great Britain was drawing nearer. The Sacs and
Foxes of the Mississippi country had accepted presents from the
British. Governor Harrison was warned that the Prophet and Tecumseh
had been asked to join.

In the summer of 1808 the Prophet moved his town to the north bank of
the Tippecanoe River, on the curve where it enters the upper Wabash
River in northern Indiana. He still had a following of Shawnees,
Chippewas, Potawatomis, Winnebagos, and so forth.

This was Miami land, shared by the Delawares. They objected. But the
Prophet's Town remained.

In 1809 the United States bought from the Miamis a large piece of
territory which included this land. The Pro