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grafp : while {looping to take it up, the other {truck him on the head 

 with a club, which daggered him, and followed his blow while he 

 was in that defencelefs fituation. 



Cole-be knew that this would enfure him the appellation of jee-run, 

 or coward, and that the friends of Ye-ra-ni-be would certainly take 

 up his caufe. As the confequences, therefore, might be very ferious if 

 Ye-ra-ni-be mould die of the blow, he thought it prudent to abfcond 

 for a while, and Ye-ra-ni-be was taken care of by fome of his white 

 friends. This happened on the ioth, and on the 16th he died. Tn 

 the interval he was conftantly attended by fome of his male and female 

 afTociates, particularly by his two friends, Collins, and Mo-roo-bra. 

 On one of the nights, when a raoft difmal fong of lamentation had 

 been fung over him, in which the women were the principal perform- 

 ers, his male friends, after liftening for fome time with great apparent 

 attention, fuddenly darted up, and, feizing their weapons, went off 

 in a mod favage humour, determined on revenge. Knowing pretty 

 well where to meet with Cole-be, they beat him very feverely, but 

 would not kill him ; referving that gratification of their revenge until 

 the fate of their companion mould be decided. On the following night, 

 they attacked a relation of Cole-be's, whom they beat about the head 

 with fuch cruelty that his recovery was very doubtful. As their ven- 

 geance extends to all the family and relations of a culprit, what a 

 misfortune it mud be to be connected with a man of a choleric dif- 

 pofition ! 



Ye-ra-ni-be was buried the day after his deceafe by the fide of the 

 public road. He was placed by his friends upon a large piece of 

 bark, and laid in a grave, which was formed after our manner (only 

 not fo deep) ; they feeming in this inftance to be deiirous of imitating 

 the cuftom of their white friends. Ben-nil-long ailifted at the cere- 

 mony, placing the head of the corpfe (by which he (luck a beautiful 

 war-ra-taw), and covering the body with the blanket on which he died. 

 Being fupplied with fome fpades, the earth was thrown in by the by- 

 danders ; during which, and indeed throughout the whole of the ce- 

 remony, 



