The Agent interpreted the words to him. “Ah, very well.”
The next place they arrived at was Lockport, in the State of New York. Jumping off the canal-boat upon the lock, he ran up to the first man he met, and thrusting forward his face cried out, “Talk Eengeesh?”
“Yes,” said the man; “do you talk English?”
“Ya-as.”
A TYPICAL GROUP OF WINNEBAGOES.
From photograph in possession of Wisconsin Historical Society.
From that time forward, he always bore the name of Talk-English, and was registered on the pay-rolls by a title of which he was not a little proud.
Hoo-wau-ne-kah, “the Little Elk,” was another of the distinguished men of the tribe. He had likewise been at Washington. Henry Clay, when he visited them, after looking carefully at the countenances and bearing of all the members of the deputation, had indicated him as the one possessing the greatest talent; and he was greatly pleased when informed that he was the principal orator of the nation, and decidedly superior in abilities to any other individual of the tribe.