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MEMOIR OF 
The logs being open, and unplastered, she saw him stagger 
back, and fall against a stump that stands between the 
kitchen and the room. He crawled for some distance, 
raised himself by the side of a tree, where he sat about a 
minute. He once more got to the room ; afterwards, he 
came to the kitchen door, but did not speak ; she then 
heard him scraping the bucket with a gourd for water, but 
it appeared that this cooling element was denied the dying- 
man ! As soon as day broke, and not before, the terror 
of the woman having permitted him to remain for two 
hours in this most deplorable situation, she sent two of 
her children to the barn, her husband not being at home, 
to bring the servants ; and, on going in, they found him 
lying on the bed. He uncovered his side, and shewed 
them where the bullet had entered ; a piece of the fore- 
head was blown off, and had exposed the brains, without 
having bled much. He begged that they would take his 
rifle and blow out his brains, and he would give them all 
the money he had in his trunk. He often said, 6 1 am no 
coward ; but I am so strong, so hard to die ! * He begged 
the servant not to be afraid of him, for that he would not 
hurt him. He expired in about two hours, or just as the 
sun rose above the trees. He lies buried close by the 
common path, with a few loose rails thrown over his grave. 
I gave Grinder money to put a post fence round it, to 
shelter it from the hogs and from the wolves, and he gave 
me his written promise that he would do it. I left this 
place in a very melancholy mood, which was not much 
allayed by the prospect of the gloomy and savage wilder- 
ness which I was just entering alone. 
“ I was roused from this melancholy reverie by the 
roaring of Buffalo river, which I forded with considerable 
difficulty. I passed two or three solitary Indian huts in the 
course of the day, with a few acres of open land at each ; 
but so wretchedly cultivated, that they just make out 
to raise maize enough to keep in existence. They pointed 
