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the corner of my eye : he preserved the most impassable 

 indifference. At length I stopped, and I said, in as 

 serious a tone as the circumstances demanded, 



" See for thyself if my hand has been indiscreet, and 

 tell me if the barter be agreeable to thee ? " 



" What the Pale-face has chosen, I am ready to give 

 him ; let him shake hands, and the business will be con- 

 cluded." 



As the reader will suppose, I hastened to grasp Rahm- 

 o-j-or's swarthy right hand. Then I summoned Duquesiie, 

 our Canadian, who, with unparalleled skill, assisted me in 

 making a bundle of these unhoped-for riches, and tran- 

 sported it to one of our waggons, protected from rain and 

 sun ; for I took care to wrap the whole very thoroughly 

 in an old piece of stout sailcloth, on one side of which I 

 wrote, with an ink made of pounded charcoal and grease, 

 " BENEDICT HENRY REVOIL, NEW YORK." 



Such was the fate of my trusty gun, which to this 

 hour is, I hope, in its master's hands. 



Before relating to the reader the circumstances under 

 which we took leave of our hosts, and returned within 

 the confines of civilization, I have not forgotten that I 

 owe to them the history of my guitar, and I am about to 

 fulfil my promise. 



One of my uncles, who had departed this life shortly 

 before I left Europe, had given me a guitar of citron-wood ; 

 but I must own that, in spite of all my application, I had 

 scarcely succeeded in obtaining any further service from 

 this instrument than that of an accompaniment to a 

 romance or song. The evening before my departure from 

 New York, Daniel Simonton, who had undertaken all the 



