NORTHERN OCEAN. 
© There goes the murderer!” The women, it is 
true, fometimes receive an unlucky blow from 
their hufbands for mifbehaviour, which occafions 
their death; but this is thought nothing of: and 
for one man or woman to kill another out of re- 
venge, or through jealoufy, or on any other ac- 
count, is fo extraordinary, that very few are now 
exifting who have been guilty of it. At the pre- 
fent moment I know not one, befide Matonabbee, 
who ever made an attempt of that nature; and 
‘heis, in every other refpect, a man of fuch uni- 
verfal good fenfe, and, as an Indian, of fuch great 
humanity, that I am at a lofs how to account for 
his having been guilty of fuch a crime, unlefs it be 
by his having lived among the Southern Indians 
fo long, as to become tainted with their blood- 
thirfty, revengeful, and vindictive difpofition. 
Early in the morning of the twenty-ninth, cap- 
tain Keelfhies joined us. He delivered to mea 
packet of letters, and a two-quart keg of French 
brandy; but aflured me, that the powder, fhot, 
tobacco, knives, &c. which he received at the Fort 
for me, were all expended. He endeavoured to 
make fome apology for this, by faying, that fome 
of his relations died in the Winter, and that he had, 
according to their cuftom, throw all his own 
things away; after which he was obliged to have 
recourfe to my ammunition and other goods, to 
fupport himfelf and a numerous family. The ve- 
_| ry affecting manner in which he related this ftory, 
often crying like a child, was a great proof of his 
extreme 
10g 
1771. 
NS 
May. 
2gth, 
