Excerpt from Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak; Or Black Hawk, and Scenes in the West: A National Poem; In Six Cantos Dear reader - The author, in presenting to you a new work, hastily got up, is aware that it may have many imperfections, and hopes the indulgence of an enlightened and generous public. Whether he has done justice to the renowned savage, the hero of the work - to our noble governor, the great partisan warrior of his day, and to that gallant band of pioneers who have contributed so much to the glory and prosperity of the West, the reader must de termine. 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.