Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Captain Pipe of Portage Path "Here the mighty Hopocan, Held his long unquestioned sway, From the green hills far away, To the Great Lake's sounding shore; Chief of chiefs, his regal word All the river Sachems heard; At his call the war-dance stirred, Or was still once more." "There were spoils of chase and war; Jaws of wolf and black bear's paw, Panther's skin and eagle's claw, Lay beside his axe and bow; And adown the roof-pole hung, Loosely on a snake-skin strung, In the smoke his scalp-locks swung Grimly to and fro." "Nightly down the river going, Swifter was the hunter's rowing, When he saw that lodge-fire glowing O'er the waters still and red; And the squaw's dark eye burned brighter, And she drew her blanket tighter, As with swifter steps and lighter From that door she fled." —Whittier Captain Pipe Warning the Scout to L.obvp the Red Men's Land Hopocan—Captain Pipe the Kihg of Portage Path Hopocan, Hobacon, Copacon, Wobocan, as it has been variously spelled, or as he was better known, Captain Pipe, was a man of mystery. There is no direct evidence that he was ever born, and none that he ever died. This strange, mysterious, successful and vindictive historical figure appeared upon the stage and then—disappeared. As near as can be learned he was born somewhere on the Susquehanna, when the eighteenth century was quite young. No man knows when, or where. He belonged to the Wolf clan of the Lenni—Lenape or the Delaware. His early life as well as his latter end is buried in obscurity. We first hear of him in 1759, then a noted chief, and a man of uncertain age. What had been his environments? We have no knowledge. When he removed to the Ohio country is also not certain. The most that is known is, that in 1764, he was a well known and no...