NORTHERN OCEAN, 
as are rarely to be found among perfons of fupe- 
rior condition and rank. 
He had not penetrated far into the country of 
the Athapufcow Indians, before he came to feve- 
ral tents with inhabitants; and there, to his great 
furprife, he found Captain Keelfhies, (a perfon 
frequently mentioned in this Journal*,) who was 
then a prifoner, with all his family and fome of 
his friends, the fate of whom was then undeter- 
mined; but through the means of. Matonabbee, 
though young enough to have been his fon, Keel- 
fhies and a few others were releafed, with the 
lofs of his effe¢éts and all his wives, which were 
fix in number. Matonabbee not only kept his 
ground after Keelfhies and his {mall party had 
been permitted to return, but made his way into 
the very heart of the Athapufcow country, in 
order to have a perfonal conference with all or 
moft of the principal inhabitants. The farther 
he advanced, the more occafion he had for intre- 
pidity. At one time he came to five tents of 
_ thofe favages, which in the whole contained fix- 
teen men, befides their wives, childern, and fer- 
vants, while he himfelf was entirelyalone, except 
one wife and a fervant boy. The Southern Indi- 
ans, ever treacherous, and apparently the more 
kind when they are premeditating mifchief, feem- 
ed to give hima hearty welcome, accepted the 
tenders of peace and reconciliation with apparent 
Aa fatisfaction, 
* The fame perfon was at Prince of Wales’s Fort when the French arsiv- 
edonthe Sth of Auguft 1782, and faw them demolifh the Fort. 
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