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soon after the decease of your uncle ? You ought 

 rather to daub your face with black, and to cut 

 your hair short to your head." This reproach for 

 the apparent destitution of natural affection, so af- 

 flicted the girl, that, soon after, she went into a 

 neighbouring wood, and hung herself, from the 

 limb of a tree. Happily for her, however, some 

 people passed that way, before she had long been 

 in this situation, and took her down. She was, at 

 first, senseless ; but soon after recovered. — Instan- 

 ces of suicide, by hanging, frequently occur, among 

 the women of all the tribes, with whom 1 have 

 been acquainted ; but the men are seldom known 

 to take away their own lives. 



Wednesday, 30. Two nights since, an Indian 

 cut a hole in a window in my room, which is made 

 of parchment, at the distance of not more than 

 two feet from the foot of my bed, where I lay 

 asleep, and took from a table, near it, several ar- 

 ticles of clothing. The next morning, two other 

 Indians brought back to me a part of the stolen 

 property, and informed me who the thief was, and 

 where he could be found. Soon after, accompa- 

 nied by my interpreter, I went, and found the 

 young villain, in a hut under ground, along with 

 about twelve others, who are as great thieves as 

 himself. I told him, that, as he was young, I hop- 

 ed this was the first time he had ever been 



