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tions in his dependents. He feemed to 

 be a cacique, or chief man among them, 

 by the airs of importance he affumed to 

 himfelf,' and the deference paid him by 

 the reft. After fome little conference 

 pafled between thefe Indians, and our ca- 

 cique condudlor, of which, moft pro- 

 bably, the circumftances of our hiftory, 

 and the occafion of our coming here, 

 might be the chief fubjeft ; for they 

 fixed their eyes conftantly upon us, they 

 applied themfelves to building their 

 wigwams. I now underftood that the 

 two Indian women with whom I had fo- 

 journed, were wives to this chieftain, 

 though one was young enough to be his 

 daughter ; and as far as I could learn, 

 did really ftand in the different relations 

 to him both of daughter and wife. It 

 was eafy to be perceived that all did not 

 go well between them at this time ; ei- 

 ther that he was not fatisfied with the 

 anfwers that they returned him to his 



queftions, 



