again, but why he sent for me, or what he wanted to say to me, I never
learned, as before I reached his house he expired.

"His death was announced by the firing of several cannon which they
have in the village. On my entering the house, the scene which
presented itself was indescribable--shrieking, dancing, tearing and
burning their hair in the fire, whilst the father of the deceased, who
had just been pulled out of the fire, rushed to it again and threw
himself upon it. He was with difficulty removed, and I directed two men
to hold him whilst I endeavoured to calm the tumult.

"I was very much shocked to find that a young man--a slave--had been
accused by the medicine-men as having bewitched the chief and induced
his sickness. In consequence of this he had been stripped, and bound
hands and feet in an old outhouse, and thus kept for some days without
food. I only learned this about one hour before the death of the chief,
and it was well I heard it even then, as I learned that they had
determined to shoot him, and a man had been told off who had his gun
ready for the purpose. I lost no time in calling the chiefs and the
friends of the deceased together, and showed them the wickedness and
sinfulness of such proceedings, and how, by their thus acting, they had
probably kept up a feeling of revenge in the mind of their friend who
had just expired. They accepted my advice, and had him unbound, and he
came to the Mission house to have his wounds dressed. His wrists were
swollen to an immense size, and his back, from hip to shoulder,
lacerated and burned to the bone by torches of pitch pine. He was
deeply grateful to me for having saved him.

"The dead chief was laid out, and all those of his crest came from the
opposite village, bringing a large quantity of swan's down, which they