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when a similar depredation is committed. 
To elucidate this matter still farther, I 
shall here relate an anecdote which I learnt 
in the course of our proceeding towards 
the christian settlements. 
One of our guides suddenly called out 
to the party to halt. On my desiring to 
know his reason, he said, " be so good as 
" to look attentively on the spot where 
" you now stand ; it is an unfortunate 
" place, but worthy your consideration.'* — 
Not observing any thing that particularly 
arrested my notice, I requested he would 
explain himself. — " On this spot," con- 
tinued the savage, " two of my country- 
men a few years since were employed in 
" attending their cattle. At that time 
" we enjoyed a profound peace with the 
colonists, and harboured no suspicion of 
" their intending to injure us. In a mo- 
" ment, however, our two men were fired 
** upon from yonder thicket. One fell 
" dead on the spot, the other, being only 
wounded, was so fortunate as to make 
his escape. The settlers then took pos- 
session of our cattle, and drove them 
