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been guilty of fome offence, and was put 

 in irons , and threatened to be more feverely 

 punifhed. We could not learn his crime, 

 or whether the governor-did not do it in 

 a great meafure to fhew us his power 

 over thefe Indian chiefs : however, we 

 were under great concern for this young 

 man, who had been extremely kind to 

 us, and begged captain Cheap to inter- 

 cede with the governor for him. This 

 he did, and the cacique was releafed ; the 

 governor acquainting him at the fame 

 time, with great warmth, that it was to us 

 only he owed it, or other wife he would 

 have made a fevere example of him. The 

 young man feemed to have been in no 

 dread of farther puniftiment, as I believe 

 he felt all a man could do from the in- 

 dignity of being put in irons in the pub- 

 lic fquare, before all his brother-ca- 

 ciques and many hundreds of other In- 

 dians. I thought this was not a very po- 

 litic flep of the governor, as the cacique - 



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