One after another the fourteen delegates rose and made their "talks" and presented their wampum strings to Dragging Canoe.

The last to speak was a chief of the Shawanoes.

He also declared that "their fathers, the French," who had been so long dead, were "alive again," that they had supplied them plentifully with arms and ammunition and had promised to assist them in driving out the Americans and in reclaiming their country.

Now all the Northern tribes were joined in one for this great purpose; and they themselves were on their way to all the Southern tribes and had resolved that, if any tribe refused to join, they would fall upon and extirpate that tribe, after having overcome the whites.

At the conclusion of his oration the Shawanoe presented the war belt--nine feet of six-inch wide purple wampum spattered with vermilion--to Dragging Canoe, who held it extended between his two hands, in silence, and waited.