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der the pretence of exchanging cattle ; thaf, 
believing him to be a fmcefe friend, they 
had repofed the greateft confidence in him, 
and never faw him arrive amono; them with- 
out teftifying their joy at his prefence ; but 
that this monfter foon betrayed them iti the 
bafeft manner, and that he durft not after- 
wards appear amangft them, from a dread of 
finding, in fudden death, a juft puniihment 
for his villany. 
Hans informed me befides, that they had 
formed a refolution to return ; and that they 
begged him to prevail upon me to give them 
{ome old iron, in exchange for a few oxen 
which they had brought along with them. 
I, Lov/ever, flatly refufed to grant them this 
article, giving them to underftand that it 
v;as impofTible for me to comply with their 
requeft, as I was unwilling to be accufed of 
having fupplied them with arms againft the 
planters ; that, without any interefted views, 
and merely from a defire of obliging them, I 
feould, under any other clrcumftances, have 
been extremely happy to glve^ them this 
mark of frlendfhip ; but that, they muft be 
fenfible, as affairs then flood, that I was not 
at liberty to behave cowards them fo ho- 
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