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ktvage$$e remaining in the tent with me. A great many Indii 

 came 1 in: among the number wa« Katawabida and Mongozid, 

 who aaid to m >, "Writer, give ue rum I" I toW them that 1 

 eoold not— -that I was not master. They tormented me a ! 

 time. M I threw to me a pair of »i which he had 



on credit, and had not paid tor, (for lie was a poor paym 

 ter.) demanding rum Cor them. I told him, no ! He then talked 

 with Mr. Kay's woman, \ tired of them, as well as my- 



Bhfi begged me to give them a little, alter which they 

 went out of the tent. 



- Within an hour alter Lr BarriqUe Eau arrived, and told me 

 that Mr. Harris and Mr. Pinot had actually arrived at the i 

 dam. The Indians, one and all, set up a shout of joy, and ran 

 to the beach to receive them. They did not however, meet 

 with a very good reception, the flagon Mr. Kay had taken with 

 him having intoxicated the whole party. They debarked, and 

 while Mr. Harris was getting his tent pitched, Mr. Kay en- 

 tered mine and took a glass in my presence. Mr. Harris waa 

 quite noisy. To complete the scene, the ferocity of Cul Blanc? 

 (an Indian unfriendly to Mr. K.) had returned. He had per- 

 iod Lr Cousin to stab Mr. Kay. in the course of the winter, 

 tng to him, that he had not courage enough himself to do it. 

 The other gloried in being equal to the commission of a crime, 

 which he had promised to perpetrate when they came together. 



" The Cul Blanc was sitting, with many others, on a hillock, 

 before the fore, smoking, directly before Mr. Kay's tent. l,e 

 Cousin got up and went towards the tent, at the entrance of 

 which he met Mr. Kay. Mr. Kay's bed was placed across, op- 

 :te the pole supporting the tail-piece of his tent. The bar- 

 rel of rum wafl behind the bed, in the bottom of the tent. Mr. 

 Kay saw him coming, as he was going to take a scat beside me 

 on the bed. At this moment Le Cousin entered. lie tendered 

 hil hand, and asked for rum. Mr.' Kay, who did not like the 

 man, answered. "No! You do not pay your credits ! You 



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