had killed the child, he opened the fire and buried it under the coals and
embers: But of that I am not certain. I have often heard him speak of that
transaction with a great degree of sorrow, and as the foulest crime he had
ever committed--one for which I have no doubt he repented.



CHAPTER IX.


Mrs. Jemison has liberty to go to her Friends.--Chooses to stay.--Her
Reasons, &c.--Her Indian Brother makes provision for her Settlement.--He
goes to Grand River and dies.--Her Love for him, &c.--She is presented
with the Gardow Reservation.--Is troubled by Speculators.--Description of
the Soil, &c. of her Flats.--Indian notions of the ancient Inhabitants of
this Country.

Soon after the close of the revolutionary war, my Indian brother,
Kau-jises-tau-ge-au (which being interpreted signifies Black Coals,)
offered me my liberty, and told me that if it was my choice I might go to
my friends.

My son, Thomas, was anxious that I should go; and offered to go with me
and assist me on the journey, by taking care of the younger children, and
providing food as we travelled through the wilderness. But the Chiefs of
our tribe, suspecting from his appearance, actions, and a few warlike
exploits, that Thomas would be a great warrior, or a good counsellor,
refused to let him leave them on any account whatever.

To go myself, and leave him, was more than I felt able to do; for he had