INSANITY AND DISAPPEAEANCE OP MONA DIN. 397 
pitmsions, but wo don’t soothem going about for that pur- 
pose." Ki» council did not agroo in this. They evidently 
believed that wo had goods but kept thorn hid, and wo folt 
it rather hard to bo suspected of falsehood. It was pro- 
bably at thoir suggestion that in the evening a war-dance 
was got up about a hundred yards from our encampment, 
as if to put us in foar and force us to bring forth prosonts. 
Bomo of Monina’s young men had guns, but most wore 
armed with largo hows, arrows, and spears. Thoy boat 
their drums furiously, and occasionally fired off a gun. As 
this sort of danco is nover got up unless there is an inten- 
tion to attack, my men expected an assault. Wo sat and 
.ooked at them for somo time, and then, as it bccamo dark, 
lay down all ready to givo thorn a warm reception. But an 
hour or two after dark the dance ceased, and, as wo thon 
saw no ono approaching us, wo went to sloop. During tho 
night, ono of my head-men, Monahin, was seen to got up, 
ook toward tho village, and say to ono who was half 
awake, “Don’t you hoar what these people are saying? 
Go and listen.” He then walked off in the opposite direc- 
tion, and never returned. Wo had no guard sot, but every 
ono lay with his spear in his hand. Tho man to whom he 
spoke appears to have been in a dreamy condition, for it 
did not strike him that ho ought to givo tho alarm. Next 
morning I found to my sorrow that Monahin was gone, 
and not a traco of him could bo' discovered. Ho had an 
attack ®f plouritis some wocks before, and had recovered, 
but latterly complained a little of his head. I obsorvod 
him in good spirits on tho way hither, and in crossing 
somo of tho streams, as I was careful not to wot my feet, 
he aided mo, and several times joked at my becoming bc 
light In tho evening ho sat beside my tent until it was 
dark, and did not manifest any groat alarm. It was pro- 
bably either a sudden fit of insanity, or, having gone a little 
way out from tho camp, ho may have been carried off by a 
Uou, as this part of the country is fall of them. I incline to 
the former opinion, because sudden insanity occurs when 
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