rling Thunder,
and Wa-saw-me-saw or Roaring Thunder; White Cloud, the false prophet;
Nahpope, the head brave; Ioway, Pam-a-ho or Swimmer, No-kuk-qua or
Bear's-fat, Pa-she-pa-ho or Little Stabber; and others.

They were forced to wear ball and chain.

"Had I taken the White Beaver [who was General Atkinson] prisoner, I
would not have treated a brave war chief in this manner," complained
Black-hawk.

Keokuk, the successful, was kind and tried to get the prisoners freed.
But they were sent on to Washington, to see the President. President
Andrew Jackson understood Indians, and Black-hawk was pleased with him.

"I am a man; you are another," he greeted, as he grasped President
Jackson's hand.

"We did not expect to conquer the whites," he explained. "They had too
many houses, too many men. I took up the hatchet to avenge the
injuries to my people. Had I not done so, they would have said,
'Black-hawk is a woman. He is too old to be a chief. He is no Sac.'"

From the last of April until June 4 the Black-hawk party was kept in
Fortress Monroe, Virginia. Then the Indians were started home. They
were given a long tour, to show them the power of the United States.

They stopped at Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Buffalo and
Detroit. The white people crowded to see the famous Black-hawk and to
hear him speak. He received valuable presents. He was treated like a
chief indeed, and his heart was touched.

When he arrived at Fort Armstrong again, on Rock Island, where he was
to be freed, his heart had somewhat failed. The village of Saukenuk
had long ago been leveled in ashes; he returned, a chief without a
people.

Keokuk came, to attend this council, and to receive him back into the
nation. Keokuk arrived riding grandly in two canoes lashed side by
side; a canopy over him and his wives with him, and medals on his
breast.

That was rather different from ball and chain, and old Black-hawk's
head sank upon his chest. He felt as bitter as Logan the Mingo had
felt.

Before he finally settled down in a lodge built near Iowaville on the
lower Des Moines River, Iowa, he made other trips through the East.
Keokuk went, also--but it was "General Black-hawk" for whom the people
clamored.

He died on October 3, 1838, at his home. His last speech was made at a
Fourth of July banquet, at Fort Madison, Iowa, where he was a guest of
honor.

"Rock River was a beautiful country. I liked my towns, my corn-fi