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sii'e, the tender niotlier, and the infant at her 

 breast fell alike undistinu,uished victims of frantic 

 rage and imgoverned hivy. Two men only, and 

 they of oi^posite parties, survived the bloody con- 

 test: when each, surveying the dreadful carnage 

 that every where surrounded him, and struck with 

 the thought of what would become of himself, if 

 he killed his antagonist, agreed to desist. 



Thtirsday, July 13, 1786. Early this morning 

 Mr. Collingham delivered me a letter wdiich he 

 had received from Noble and Pinson, brought by 

 the Mary, in which they informed him, that my 

 assignees had attached all the goods which he 

 sent to England last year, for the benefit of them- 

 selves (Noble and Pinson) and likewise falsely 

 accusing both Mr. Collingham and m^^self of em- 

 bezzling part of my late estate. From this intel- 

 ligence I instantly determined to return to Eng- 

 land, to confute their villainies, and recover the 

 goods. 



Wednes.y July 19, 1786. Eketcheak, one of the 

 Indian men, last winter maiTied a second wife; a 

 young girl about sixteen years of age: T took a 

 fancy to her, and desired that he would spare her 

 for me, as I had no wife, and was in great want 

 of one. He replied. '' You are very welcome to 

 *' Ikt, 1)111 I ;iiii .-itVaid she will not ))lease you, as 

 " her tem|)cr is xcry bad, and she is so idle, tliat 

 ** she will do no woi-k; nor can she use a needle: 

 '* but my otbor wife is llic Ijest tempered creature 

 " in tlie world; an excellent sempstress, is indus- 

 *' try itself, and she has two children; all of which 



