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tuted inferior cloths of his own. The wife urged the great and 
zealous services of her husband to Sai Quamina, and her indigna- 
tion at such a mean acknowledgment as the King had sent. 
Assaphi returned, reported her gratitude, and that every thing had 
been handsomely done, to the credit of the King. The wife 
privately dug up the cloths buried with the corpse, and suspecting 
the fraud, secretly conveyed them to the King, with a full account. 
The King sent for Assaphi and again enquiring the particulars, 
with seeming indifference, suddenly required him to swear to the 
truth, which he advanced to do, when the King said no ! you must 
not swear, and the w^oman was immediately discovered to him with 
all the cloths. He then confessed the particulars, w^as stripped of 
every thing, and is now the more despised for not killing himself ; 
and the King could not put him to death, as the direct descendant 
of one of Sai Tootoo's peers. Part of the King's reproach to him 
was curious : " my brother's hnguist did him great good, so when 
he and my brother, who now live with God, make God recollect all, 
and tell him the shame you put on him for me, in so burying him, 
God will kill me.^' 
A man and a woman w^ere beheaded on the 17th of this month, 
for an intrigue : the woman was very handsome, and the wife of a 
captain: on their being suspected, both were ordered to drink 
doom, which choking them, they were immediately executed. 
The King's sister sent for Mr. Tedlie to go and see her, he enquired 
into her complaint and recommended some medicine, which she 
very thankfully agreed to take ; he prepared some for her, and 
went to give her the proper directions ; upon which, she handed 
the cup to her husband, who beginning to swallow it very fast, 
Mr. Tedlie stopped him, and said he had only prepared sufficient 
for one person; the lady repUed, " let him drink this to day, and 
I can have more to-morrow '' he told her that he had very little 
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