nsible for
any of the facts, or views, contained in it, and leaves the Old Chief
and his story with the public, whilst he neither asks, nor expects, any
fame for his services as an amanuensis.

THE EDITOR.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BLACK HAWK.

I was born at the Sac village, on Rock river, in the year 1767, and
am now in my 67th year. My great grandfather, Nanamakee, or Thunder,
according to the tradition given me by my father, Pyesa, was born in the
vicinity of Montreal, Canada, where the Great Spirit first placed the
Sac nation, and inspired him with a belief that, at the end of four
years he should see a _white man_, who would be to him a father.
Consequently he blacked his face, and eat but once a day, just as the
sun was going down, for three years, and continued dreaming, throughout
all this time whenever he slept. When the Great Spirit again appeared to
him, and told him that, at the end of one year more, he should meet his
father, and directed him to start seven days before its expiration, and
take with him his two brothers, Namah, or Sturgeon, and Paukahummawa,
or Sunfish, and travel in a direction to the left of sun-rising. After
pursuing this course for five days, he sent out his two brothers to
listen if they could hear a noise, and if so, to fasten some grass to
the end of a pole, erect it, pointing in the direction of the sound, and
then return to him.

Early next morning they returned, and reported that they had heard
sounds which appeared near at hand, and that they had fulfilled his
order. They all then started for the place where the pole had been
erected; when, on reaching it, Nanamakee left his party and went alone
to the place from whence the sounds proceeded, and found, that the white
man had arrived and pitched his tent. When he came in sight, his father
came out to meet him. He took him by the hand and welcomed him into his
tent. He told him that he was the son of the King of France; that he had
been dreaming for four years; that the Great Spirit had directed him
to come here, where he should meet a nation of people who had never
yet seen a white man; that they should be his children and he should
be their father; that he had communicated these things to the King, his
father, who laughed at him and called him Mashena, but he insisted on
coming here to meet his children where the Great Spirit had directed
him. The king had told him that he would find neither land nor people;
that this was an un