1^6 TRAVELS through 



recommends it toyoutogoahunting, and to take 

 your families with yon, that they may have 

 fomewhat to live upon, leaving only a certain 

 number of men, to take care of the fields, and 

 to prevent the wild beads from ruining them i 

 you mud likewife take care to fend one of your 

 people from time to time, to inquire hov7 

 matters fland here. 



^/le Anfwer of the Chiefs of the Tribes, 



'*'''itrs very well, my Father, that the great chief* 

 " pities us. Itwasavery brave a6tion to be fur- 

 ^' prized in the manner we have been-, thou haft been 

 " an eye-witnefs of it, for thou hafl faved the life 

 *' of one of our girls , our tribe have been killed 

 M by the Fcxes, who have burnt our huts with our 

 *' vi6luals, and taken our booty, during our re- 

 " treat at the Kafiakias. Thou muft think, that 

 *' we cannot leave any here, or they muft ftarve, 

 " and would ever lament the death of our rela- 

 " tions, who perifhed in this fad a6lion. But to 

 *' convince our father of our fidelity, tell him, 

 " by means of the fpeaking fubftance (paper), 

 " that from time to tim.e we fhall fend fome one 



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* Thus thefe nations call the fiipcrlor officers of. a pro- 

 luce or diiirj'ft. 



