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Indian of the same tribe, rushed out of the wood, 

 and fired upon them, and killed his wife. Her 

 corpse he immediately burned upon the spot ; and 

 then, with his son and two daughters, he proceed- 

 ed directly to this place. — All the savages, who 

 have had a near relation killed, are never quiet 

 until they have revenged the death, either by kill- 

 ing the murderer, or some person nearly related 

 to him. This spirit of revenge has occasioned the 

 death of the old woman, above mentioned, and she 

 undoubtedly, deserved to die ; for, the last sum- 

 mer, she persuaded her husband to go and kill 

 the cousin of her murderer, and that, merely be- 

 cause her own son had been drowned. — The cus- 

 tom, which extensively prevails among the Indians, 

 of revenging the natural death of a relative, by 

 the commission of murder, seems to arise from a 

 superstitious notion entertained by them, that 

 death, even when it takes place in this manner, 

 has, in some mysterious way, been occasioned by 

 a fellow creature. 



Sunday, 20. Yesterday, an Indian of this vil- 

 lage killed another, who was on a visit from the 

 other end of this lake, just as he was entering his 

 canoe to return. The former approached the 

 latter, and gave him five stabs with a lance, and 

 ripped open his bowels, in such a shocking man- 

 ner, that his entrails immediately fell upon 



