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May. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
extreme forrow, which he wifhed to perfuade me _ 
crew arofe from the recolleGion of his having embez- _ 
zled fo much of my property; but I was of adif- | 
ferent opinion, and attributed his grief to arife — 
from the remembrance of his deceafed relations. | 
However, as a {mall recompence for my lofs, he — 
prefented we with four ready-drefled moofe-fkins, 
which was, he faid, the only retribution he could — 
then make. The moofe-fkins, though not the 
twentieth part of the value of the goods which 
he had embezzled, were in reality more accepta- 
ble to me, than the ammunition and the other © 
articles would have been, on account of their 
great ufe as fhoe-leather, which at that time was _ 
a very f{carce article with us, whereas we had plen- 
ty of powder and fhot. 
On the fame day that Keelfhies joined us, an In- | 
dian man, who had been fome time in our com- 
pany, infifted on taking one of Matonabbee’s 
wives from him by force, unlefs he complied with 
his demands, which were, that Matonabbee 
fhould give him a certain quantity of ammuniti-_ 
on, fome pieces of iron-work, a kettle, and feveral 
other articles; every one of which, Matonabbee: | 
was obliged to deliver, or lofe éhe woman; fob 
the other man far excelled him in ftrength. Ma- 
tonabbee was more exafperated on this occafion, | 
as the fame man had fold him the woman no lon- | 
ger ago than the nineteenth of the preceding 
April. Having expended all the goods he then 
poffefled, however, he was determined to make 
another 
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