"I've been on this frontier for fourteen years, and visited in Black Hawk's camp a dozen times.

He's a British Indian, and hates everything American.

Ask Forsyth." "The Indian agent ?" "Yes, he knows.

He's already written Governor Reynolds, and I saw the letter.

His word is that Keokuk is powerless to hold back an explosion; he and the Hawk are open enemies, and with the first advance of settlers along the Rock River Valley this whole border is going to be bathed in blood.