but the red man has a heart which throbs as warmly as the heart of his white brother.  The Great Spirit has given us our hunting grounds, and the skin of the deer which we kill there, is his favorite, for its color is white, and this is the emblem of peace.  This hunting dress and these feathers of the eagle are white.  Accept them, my brother; I have given one like this to the White Otter.  Accept of it as a memorial of Black Hawk.  When he is far away this will serve to remind you of him.  May the Great Spirit bless you and your children—­farewell.”

On the fifth of June, under the charge of Major John Garland of the United States army, Black Hawk and his five companions, took their departure from Fortress Monroe.  Before leaving the Chesapeake, they visited Norfolk and the Navy Yard at Gosport.  They were taken on board the Delaware, 74, and were much delighted with its appearance.  Black Hawk expressed a strong desire to see the chief who commanded it, and to take the man who built it, by the hand.

At Norfolk a large concourse of persons visited them.  Wabokieshiek, the prophet, addressed them from the balcony of their hotel, as follows: 

“The Great Spirit sent us here, and now happily we are about to return, to our own Mississippi, and our own people.  It affords us much happiness to rejoin our friends and kindred.  We would shake hands with all our white friends assembled here.  Should any of them go to our country on the Mississippi, we would take pleasure in returning their kindness to us.  We will go home with peaceable dispositions towards our white brethren, and make our conduct hereafter, more satisfactory to them.  We bid you all farewell, as it is the last time we shall see each other.”

Black Hawk made a few remarks, and at one o’clock, June the fifth, they started for Baltimore, which place they reached at eleven o’clock on the following day, and were greeted by crowds of curious spectators.  The renown of Black Hawk had every where preceded him, and all were anxious to behold the old chief whose name and deeds had excited so much commotion on the frontiers of the north west.  The President happened to be in Baltimore at the same time, and, the “monumental city” was never, perhaps, honored by the presence of two more distinguished “lions” upon the same day, than upon this occasion.  They both attended the theatre on the evening of the sixth; and, it is said, that the attention of the house was very equally divided between them.  On the following day an interview took place between them, when the President said to the old chief;—­