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to accuracy was learning that he remembered the English 

 conquest, and that he had then been some years a married 

 man. Indian tradition gives him about one hundred and 

 ten years, as before remarked, and his appearance does not 

 disprove the estimate. He now lives on the borders of 

 Lake Mangemagooz, and is taken care of by his daughtei* 

 and son-in-law, and by a wife about forty years of age, to 

 whom the old gentleman was, as we learned, wedded about 

 twelve months before we met with him. A fine boy, of 

 about seven, we were informed was his son by a former 

 wife; but we observed no appearance of any farther proba^ 

 ble increase to his establishment. 



The other chief of whom 1 have to speak, is a much more 

 extraordinary person, and the accounts which we Avere 

 continually listening to, had greatly excited our curiosity 

 to sec him, in which expectation, as I before noticed, we 

 were disappointed, but have since had good reason to 

 believe that he was not unobservant of our motions. This 

 man's name (almost Italian) is Menessino, and he is son 

 to old Majeshk. His usual residence is on the shores of 

 Lake Kempt, the largest expanse we discovered, and 

 uimust a water labyrinth, from the extraordinary shapes of 

 its deep bays, its narrow straits, and numerous large 

 islands. Here lives Menessino, with his wives and children, 

 in solitude, for he is a nuirderer j)roscribed by the Uwv, 

 and seldom ventures to leave his haunts to visit the 

 post of Wemontaehiiigiie. At one time he was pursual 

 and secured, by an otlicer sent up purposely from Three 

 Jlivers, and who was conveying him down the St. Maurice 

 for trial, when, at La Tiujue (1 believe), on that river, he 

 M'i/ed an opportunity, although haiidciiUnl, of plunging 

 in below the rapid, and swuni over lo the ullicr .^idc iu 



