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 been guilty of fome offence, and was put 

 in irons , and threatened to be more feverely 

 puniftied. We could not learn his crime, 

 or whether the governor did not do it in 

 a great meafure to fliew us his power 

 over thefe Indian chiefs : however, we 

 were under great concern for this young 

 man, who had been extremely kind td 

 us, and begged captain Cheap to inter- 

 cede with the governor for him. This 

 he did, and the cacique was releafed the 

 governor acquainting him at the fame 

 time, with great warmth, that it was to us 

 only he owed it, or otherwife he would 

 have made a fevere example of him. The 

 young man feemed to have been in no 

 dread of farther punifliment, as I believe 

 he felt all a man could do from the in- 

 dignity of being put in irons in the pub- 

 lic fquare, before all his brother- ca- 

 ciques and many hundreds of other In- 

 dians. I thought this was not a very po- 

 litic flep of the governor, as the cacique 



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