Excerpt from Tales of Travels in Central Africa: Including Denham and Clapperton's Expedition, Park's First and Second Journey, Tuckey's Voyage Up the Congo, Bowditch's Account of the Mission to Ashantee, Clapperton's Second Expedition, and Caille's Travels to Timbuctoo AT the famous battle of Tippecanoe, in which as before inti mated, I bore a humble part, an American Sergeant had the fortune to kill an Indian Chief. The thing chanced as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.