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multitudes of others, and was the common lot. 

 He replied that he should conduct as his own 

 feelings dictated ; and that he had not forgotten 

 the request of his dying companion, which was, 

 that he would accompany her. Not long after, 

 he was missing ; and, search being made for him, 

 he was found in the situation above mentioned. 

 The strength of conjugal attachment is not an un- 

 frequent cause of suicide, in every part of the In- 

 dian country. 



Monday, 24. The snow is fast leaving us, and 

 fowls begin to come from the south. 



Wednesday, 26. I have sent letters to my 

 friends below, to Stuart's Lake, which place they 

 will leave, on their way, the first of next month. 

 I expect to pass the ensuing summer here, having 

 but a few people with me. But, by dividing my 

 time between reading, meditation and exercise, I 

 hope that it will pass not unpleasantly, away. 



Wednesday, May 10. We have surrounded a 

 piece of ground with palisades, for a garden, in 

 which we have planted a few potatoes, and sow- 

 ed onion, carrot, beet and parsnip seeds, and a 

 little barley. I have, also, planted a very little 

 Indian corn, without the expectation that it will 

 Gome to maturity. The nights in this region 

 are too cool, and the summers are too short, to 

 admit of its ripening. There is not a month in 



