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PERSONAL NARRATIVE.29
was drowned. The night of the • failure, fifty canoes, with Black Hawk, left their camp on a war party against the 0 sages, 300 miles off.
The next day the old chief, Quashquame-nom-wait, the Plumb chief, Pacon-Napope, came over with a white flag and informed Lieut. Kingsley that all the bad young men and young chiefs had gone to war; that they, the old chiefs, could not control these bad men, that they thanked the Great Spirit that the smoke had disappeared & that the sun shone once more &
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