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“ ONHAPPILY FOR HIM, THEY CET FLY ABOUT THREE HUNDRED
OF THEIR ARROWS.”

The ill manners of turning up their bare backsides to us gave
us no great offence, neither did I know for certain whether that
which would pass tor the greatest contempt among us might be
understood so by them or not; therefore, in return, I had only
resolved to have fired four or five guns at them with powder only,
which I knew would fright them sufficiently. But when they shot
at us directly with all the fury they were capable of, and especi-
ally as they had killed my poor Friday, whom I so entirely loved
and valued, and who indeed so well deserved it, I not only had
heen justitied before God and man, but would have been very glad,
if I could, to have overset. every canoe there, and drowned every
one of them.

T can neither tell how many we killed nor how many we wounded
at this broadside; but sure such a fright and hurry never was seen

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