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them all In a line fide by fide, and, (landing at 
a diftance, I put into my carbine a large charge 
of powder and a ball with a hole through 
It J and then firing, I made the ball whizz 
over their heads. 
The whizzing, which they heard before the 
report of the carbine, ftupefied them with 
wonder. They doubted not but I could fend 
a ball as far as I pleafed, and that this had gone 
to take efFe£t at an immeafurable diftance. 
Thefe experiments, added to other exploits 
they had often feen me perform, fuch as brings 
ing down fmall birds on the wing, and even 
beetles, gave them a high opinion of my fu- 
periority. 
Having thus impreffed on their minds an 
exalted idea of my power, I reprefented to 
them how prudently they had afted in receiv- 
ing nve with friendfhip, and how rafh it would 
be in any of their hordes to provoke my wrath 
by offending me. I defired them to warn 
their countrymen of the rifk they would run 
on fuch an occafion ; hut at the fame time I 
alTured them, that, wherever I met any of 
them, I (l)ould always endeavour to make 
them my friends, as I had a£ted by their horde. 
Finally^ 
