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and be revenged on him. They anfwered, tika^ 

 lahe^ houe nigue, i. e. we believe thee, thou art in 

 the right. They then voted that he fhould be 

 burnt, and the great prieft pronounced his fen- 

 tence, which, according to the interpreter's ex- 

 planation, was conceived in thefe terms : " Mon- 

 •' fler, arifen from the excrements of the evil 

 *' fpirit, to be fatal to our nation, who has 

 ** wrongfully taken thee for her Manitou -, thou 

 ^' haft paid no regard to the offerings wliich we 

 *' have made thee, and haft allowed our enemies, 

 ** whom thou doft plainly protedl,- to overcome 

 *' a party of our countrymen, and to make 

 ** them fiaves : therefore our old men aftcmbled 

 *^ in council have unanimoufly decreed and with 

 " the advice of the chief of the white warriors, 

 *' that to expiate thy ingratitude towards us, 

 «' thou llialt be burnt alive." At the end of 

 this fentence all the aflem.bly faid, hoUy hou^ 

 hou^ hon. 



As 1 wiflied to get this monfter, becaufe I 

 could not get that fnake I fpoke to you of be- 

 fore, I took the following method : I went to 

 the prieft, made him a fmall prefent, and bid 

 my interpreter tell him, that he Ihculd perfuade 

 his countrymen, that if they burnt this evil ge- 

 i^ius, there might arife one from his alhes which 



would 



