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MUNAMEET'S EXPLOITS. [1820. 
The day turning out so extremely fine, after a 
gloomy, wet, and threatening morning, afforded 
us much pleasure. No nation, however, inter- 
vening between us and the murderous Wanketzens 
helped to moderate our joy, and rendered it very 
desirable to get forward to the Marootzee country. 
Munameets, some evenings before, in relating 
the history of the expeditions he had been en- 
gaged in, took no notice of his ever having killed 
any one ; but in speaking of the river Lucha- 
kaney, which we had just crossed, he mentioned 
a battle he had been in some years before, with 
a people who then lived upon its banks, and that 
during the contest he had killed two men. On 
my shaking my hand before him in the way of 
disapprobation, as the battle was only with the 
view of stealing their cattle, he only smiled at his 
not having told it before. 
In consequence of having plenty to eat, and 
the full inoon shining bright, the Matchappees 
did not appear like the same persons they were 
the preceding evening, when pinched with 
hunger, and when floods of rain were falling. 
The Mashows, who had brought pack-oxen to 
carry back flesh to the King, were so discouraged 
by the rain and hunger, that they left us early in 
the morning, and returned home with empty sacks. 
Had they remained only a. few hours longer, it is 
