Etacteal, or the Downfall of the Natchez

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Excerpt from Etacteal, or the Downfall of the Natchez: A Poem, in Four Parts, Together With Other PiecesOf the two longer pieces contained in this volume, it is only necessary to say of the second, that it is a versification, and a very close one, of a wild Indian Legend, originally communicated to the Saturday Evening Post, (Phila.) The author has added very little, nothing in fact, except the dream by which the hunter received warning of his fate.The first piece is entirely fictitious. If it be true, as has often been said, that the best field for poetry, of the narrative kind, is, that where a few great outlines only of fact are seen dimly, through the mist of fable and tradition, leaving all the details to be supplied by the imagination, the Natchez, furnish one of the best subjects that could be conceived. All that we know, is that they were a great people, and that they fell before the French arms, at the begining of the last century. The only further information concerning them is given in a note to the first part of the Poem, and the following from "Traits of Indian Character."The Natchez were a very considerable people.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.