> “KABAOOSA,

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 17, 1900

NEARLY fifty years ago Longfellow visited the Ojibway tribe of Indians, in the land of Hiawatha, on the shores of Lake Superior, and was the guest of the chief, Bukwujimene. Last month Wabunosa, the grandson of the chief, and Kabaoosa, his nephew, visited the home of Longfellow, in Cambridge, Mass., and were the guests of the poet’s daughters, Mrs. Dana, Mrs. Thorp, and Miss Longfellow. Kabaoosa sang two Indian songs for his hostesses, one a love song and the other a war song, which his grandfather had composed after the victory which his tribe, as allies of the British, gained over another tribe allied with the colonists at the battle of Queenstown Heights in the War of 1812.

This is a translation of an invitation which they extended to their hostesses:—

“Ladies: We loved your father. The memory of our people will never die as long as your father’s song lives, and that will live forever.

“Will you and your husbands and Miss Longfellow come and see us and stay in our royal wigwams on an island in Hiawatha’s playground, in the land of the Ojibways? The friend who came with us, whose address you have, will make all the arrangements. We want you to see us live over again the life of Hiawatha in his own country.

> “KABAOOSA,

“WABUNOSA.

“Boston (Onahbannegises), the Month of Crusts on the Snow.”—N. Y. Tribune.