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heard the leader say, “Take care and don’t hit Hnaisiline;’ 
so he learned that it was not their design to murder him. 
When Tizelo fell, the savages rushed upon the body, strip- 
ping off the clothes and sharing them among themselves. 
“Hnaisiline made a brave effort to prevent the body of 
his friend from being devoured by the savage murderers. 
He placed his foot on the feet of his dead friend, intimating 
that they must not touch the body. For a length of time 
he was successful; the terror of his name kept the savages 
at bay; and while standing over the body of his dead friend 
he addressed the murderers in the following remarkable lan- 
guage: Naming the leader, he said, ‘Wathotha, you have 
killed these two men—two men of God... . God will pun- 
ish you; your people shall be swept away, your land be- 
come desolate, and forest trees shall grow upon it. You 
have attacked me in the early morning; your enemies shall 
come upon you, not at midday, nor at night, but in the 
morning.’ 
“Some of the bystanders, hearing Hnaisiline speak thus, 
thought he intended to attack them at a future day to avenge 
the murder of his people, and they proposed that they should 
at once kill Hnaisiline and as many of his people as they 
could, that they might have the less to do should they be 
attacked at a future time. MHnaisiline, hearing that, thought 
it unwise to contend any longer over the body of Tizelo; so 
it also fell into the hands of the cannibals, and he turned 
away from the sickening scene and arranged the order in 
which his party were to proceed: the women were to go first, 
the men next, and the chief himself would bring up the rear 
and be between them and their bloodthirsty enemies. Thus 
they commenced their flight, but the women, mistaking the 
road, got into some bypaths, so the chief had to take the lead, 
which he did, telling all to follow him, and that should their 
enemies pursue them, he would fall behind and receive them; 
they had full ten miles to go before he could feel assured 
that they were safe. 
