"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

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border of Ohio, on lands already ceded to the United States.
Meanwhile Tecumseh traveled from tribe to tribe, spreading
everywhere his brother's fame. While the Prophet's immediate followers, engrossed in their religious exercises, were
often on the verge of starvation, it was reported, and believed
at a distance, that he could make pumpkins as big as a wigwarn spring out of the ground at a single word, along with
stalks of corn, of which a single ear would suffice to feed a
dozen men. Denounced by the chiefs of their own and
the neighboring tribes as impostors, they retorted by charges
of subserviency to the whites, and even of witchcraft, a very
terrible accusation among the Indians, under which they procured the death of two or three hostile Delaware Chiefs. It
was, however, among the more remote tribes that the greater
part of their convicts were obtained; and this, perhaps, was
one reason why the Prophet, in the summiner of 1808, removed
his village to the Tippecanoe, a northern branch of the Upper
Wabash, a spot belonging to the Miamis and Delawares, but
which he occupied in spite of their opposition. At this new
village, disciples and spectators flocking in from all sides, the
Prophet continued to celebrate his appointed seasons of fasting
and exhortations: religious exercises, which were intermingled with or followed by warlike sports, such as shooting with
bows, by which the rifle was to be superseded, and wielding
the stone tomahawk or war-club, ancient Indian weapons,
before the hatchet was known.
These military exercises, and an alleged secret intercourse
with the British traders and agents, had drawn upon the
Prophet and his brother the suspicions of Harrison, governor
of the Indiana Territory, and superintendent of Indian
affairs; but these suspicions were, in a great measure, dispelled by a visit which the Prophet paid to Vincennes, in
which he assumed the character of a warm friend of peace,
his sole object being, as he declared, to reform the Indians,
and especially to put a stop to the use of whisky. Not long
after this visit, Harrison held a treaty at Fort Wayne with
the Delawares, Potawatomies, Miamis, Kickapoos, Weas, and
Eel River Indians, at which, in consideration of annuities
amounting to $2350, and of presents in hand to the value of
$8200, he obtained a cession of lands extending up the
Wabash above Terre Haute, and including the middle waters