d fired. The poor wretch first staggered, then
fell on his face; while writhing in agonies, he seemed for a
moment to stop; his muscles stiffened: slowly and gradually he
raised himself from the ice, turned round, and with a wild gaze
surveyed us all in a circle around him. Never shall I forget
the figure he exhibited; his hair hanging on each side of his
sallow face; his bushy beard clotted with blood that flowed
from his mouth and nose; his eyes flashing fire, yet with the
glass of death upon them,--they fixed on the individual that
first stabbed him. Slowly he raised the hand that still grasped
young ----'s dagger, till he raised it considerably above his
head, when uttering a yell that made the woods echo, he rushed
at him. The man fired as he advanced, and the noble Indian
again fell on his face: a few moments' struggle, and he lay a
stiffened corpse on the icy surface of the limpid waters.--The
woman for a moment seemed scarcely to notice the corpse; in a
few minutes, however, she showed a little emotion; but it was
not until obliged to leave the remains of her husband that she
gave way to grief, and vented her sorrow in the most
heart-breaking lamentations. While the scene which I have
described was acting, and which occurred in almost less space
than the description can be read, a number of Indians had
advanced within a shore distance, but seeing the untimely fate
of their chief, halted. Mr. ---- fired over their heads, and
they immediately fled. The banks of the lake, on the other
side, were at this time covered with men, women, and children,
at least several hundreds; but immediately being joined by
their companions all disappeared in the woods. We then had time
to think. For my own part I could scarcely credit my senses as
I beheld the remains of the noble fellow stretched on the ice,
crimsoned with his already frozen blood. One of the men then
went to the shore for some fir tree boughs to cover the body,
which measured as it lay, 6 feet 71/2 inches. The fellow who
first stabbed him wanted to strip off his cassock, (a garment
made of deer skin, lined with beaver and other skins, reaching
to the knees,) but met with so stern a rebuke from ----, that
he instantly desisted, and slunk abashed away.

After covering the body with bo