Travels Through North America 



dispatched as executioners. Silouee attended them, and 

 when they entered the tent, he threw himself between 

 them and Byrd, and said to the warriors, This man is my 

 friend, before you get at him you must kill me: — on which 

 they returned, and the council respected the principle so 

 much as to recede from their determination." 



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