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the fan, and proceeded homewards. Puganocfollowed him 

 but without any demonstratioM of anger. It might be suppo- 

 led that he intended in make a friendly visit to the post, foe 

 the purpose of further, trading, and Relle evidently so consid- 

 ered the circumstance of his accompanying him, for he was 

 wholly unsuspicious of latent revenge. Silent as this passion 

 was kept, it burned, however, in the Indian"- breast, and, in 



[Iga lake, on the ice, the Indian treading in the hindmost 



step, (a practice in walking with snow shoes,) he suddenly dis- 

 charged his piece. The ball entered his victim's back below 

 the shoulders. He fell dead. Puganoc then drew his knife, 

 cut oil' two of the voyageur's fingers, to make it appear that he 

 had been struggling with an adversary, then threw down the 

 knife on the snow, and returned with a report that the man had 

 been killed by the Sioux. 



It may be interesting to notice the fate of Puganoc. At- 

 tempts for his surrender to the civil authorities were made, but 

 without success. Meantime he was regarded as having forfeited 

 his life by a young Chippewa of his own band, a relative, per- 

 haps of the deceased vyageurs Indian wife. "While assem- 

 bled to amuse themselves by 6ring at a mark, this young man, 

 as it became his turn to fire, saw Puganoc lifting the cloth door 

 of his tent, and wheeling half a circle in his aim, fired his bail 

 through the neck of the assassin, and killed him on the spot. 



Pride, and the desire of personal distinction, as in other tribes 

 which have not the light of Christianity to guide them, may be 

 considered as lying at the foundation of the Indian character. 

 Tor there are no tribes so poor and remote as not to have pride. 

 And this passion seems always to be coupled with a dc- 

 f applause, and with the wish on the part of its possessor! 

 to be thought b< tt< r than they realy arc. We have found pride 

 in the remotest Indian lodge W€ 0fl r Visit* <l. and have hardly 

 ever ei:L r .'.L ri d in ten minutes conversation with a northern In- 

 dian, with Qg it DO! only to exist, but, where then 

 it all, a- constituting the primary motive to 



