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abounding with hogs, fruit, and a considerable variety of vegetal* 
bles, should prefer a loathsome putrid human carcass, to the nu¬ 
merous delicacies their valleys afford? It cannot be: there must 
have been some misconception. I proceeded to the house of Gat- 
tanewa, which I found filled with women making the most dread- 
ful lamentations, and surrounded by a large concourse of male na¬ 
tives. On my appearance there was a general shout of terror; all 
fixed their eyes on me witli looks of fear and apprehension. I ap¬ 
proached the wife of Gattanewa, and required to know the cause 
of this alarm. She said now that we had destroyed the Happahs 
they were fearful we should turn on them: she took hold of my 
hand, which she kissed, and moistened with her tears: then plac¬ 
ing it on her head, knelt to kiss my feet. She told me they were 
willing to be our slaves, to serve us, that their houses, their lands, 
their hogs, and every thing belonging to them were ours; but beg¬ 
ged that I would have mercy on her, her children, and her fami¬ 
ly, and not put them to death. It seemed that they had worked 
themselves up to the highest pitch of fear, and on my appearance 
with a centiriel accompanying me, they could see in me nothing 
but the demon of destruction. I raised the poor old woman from 
her humble posture, and begged her to banish her groundless 
fears, that I had no intention of injuring any person residing in the 
valley of Tieuhoy: that if the Happahs had drawn on themselves' 
our vengeance, and felt our resentment, they had none to blame 
but themselves. I had offered them peace; but they had prefered 
war; I had proffered them my friendship, and they had spurned 
at it. That there was no alternative left me. I had chastised 
them, and was appeased. Addressing myself to her daughter, an 
interesting woman of about twenty-three years of age, who had 
come to solicit peace, I told her I should respect any messenger 
sent from her tribe bearing a white flag; that her husband might 
come in safety, and that I should be as ready to make peace, as I 
had been to punish their insolence. I then exhorted the wife of 
Gattanewa to endeavour to impress on the minds of every person 
the necessity of living on friendly terms with us; that we were 
disposed to consider them as brothers; that we had come with no 
hostile intentions toward them, and so long as they treated us as 
friends we would protect them against all their enemies; that they 
