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CHAP, using it in this way, he joined his accomplices, and with them fell 
upon Williams and shot him. Martin, who was at no great distance, 
Dec. heard the report of the musket, and exclaimed, “ Well done ! we will 
have a glorious feast to-day !” supposing that a hog had been shot. 
The party proceeded from Williams’ toward Christian’s plantation, 
where Menalee, the other black, was at work with Mills and M‘Coy ; 
and, in order that the suspicions of the whites might not be excited by 
the report they had heard, requested Mills to allow him (Menalee) to 
assist them in bringing home the hog they pretended to have killed.. 
Mills agreed ; and the four, being united, proceeded to Christian, who 
was working at his yam -plot, and shot him. Thus fell a man, who, from 
being the reputed ringleader of the mutiny, has obtained an unenviable 
celebrity, and whose crime may perhaps be considered as in some 
degree palliated, by the tyranny which led to its commission. MCoy, 
hearing his groans, observed to Mills, “ there was surely some person 
dying but Mills replied, “ it is only Mainmast (Christian’s wife) 
calling her children to dinner.” The white men being yet too strong 
for the blacks to risk a conflict with them, it was necessary to concert 
a plan, in order to separate Mills and M‘Coy. Two of them accordingly 
secreted themselves in M‘Coy’s house, and Tetaheite ran and told him 
that the two blacks who had deserted were stealing things out of his 
house. M‘Coy instantly ran to detect them, and on entering was fired 
at; but the ball passed him. M‘Coy immediately communicated the 
alarm to Mills, and advised him to seek shelter in the woods ; but Mills, 
being quite satisfied that one of the blacks whom he had made his 
friend would not suffer him to be killed, determined to remain. M‘Coy, 
less confident, ran in search of Christian, but finding him dead, joined 
Quintal (who was already apprised of the work of destruction, and 
had sent his wife to give the alarm to the others), and fled with him 
to the woods. 
Mills had scarcely been left alone, when the two blacks fell upon 
him, and he became a victim to his misplaced confidence in the fidelity 
of his friend. Martin and Brown were next separately murdered by 
Menalee and Tenina ; Menalee effecting with a maul what the musket 
had left unfinished. Tenina, it is said, wished to save the life of Brown, 
