(39) "& destroy them all: leave not one alive to carry the news to the others. They seperated accordingly & killed every soul. Then he took them to his tent & finding by their answers to his queries that there were still another band not far off consisting of 40 young & 2 old men of the HB. he ordered a quantity of poles or pickets to be cut very long & made a kind of Fort of them round his own tent:--gave orders to them to gather a vast quantity of snow round all the sides of it, to come over the points, so that neither the pickets nor tent might be seen, & that this rising might have the appearance of a natural hill, something in short in the form of a pit. He immediately made a number of lances & spears & walked off in quest of his enemies. He soon reached their camp--drew near & found that there were but 2 old men, all the others were out a hunting. Here he listened to their conversation & was burning with indignation at the stories these 2 old men told each other of the cruelties they had done to the _Indians_--They were chukling at this when he sprung into the tent, took each by the head & thrust their faces in the fire & sprang out again to listen. One of them returning to his senses, for they had both fainted during the ceremony, exclaimed thus "my "old freind! what is the matter with me? I lost my senses quite suddenly & now "that I am come to, I feel my face quite sore & cannot see"--"It is the same with me" replied the other one--"Then it must be some evil spirit that has pounced upon us" resumed the first. At last Nayhanimis addressed them thus "I shall tell ye old men a story too. "There were two old men formerly seated in their tents relating to each other the exploits "of their younger days & the cruelties they committed upon the _Indians_--Nayha- "nimis was near--he pounced upon them & thrust both their heads together "into the fire. When your children & young men be returned from their hunting "tell them this Story, in the mean time I shall return home & make ready for them-- "--my name is _Nayhanimis_ & I reside at _such_ a _place_" (i.e. I am _called_ (or named) Nayhanimis &c.). The old men as may be imagined, were Thunder Struck with this & durst not say a word more. But in the Evening the young men came home--They were astonished to see their fathers in such a plight. "Children! behold your fathers! said they--Had any _miscreant_ "durst act in such a manner to _our_ fathers, their villanny should certainly not have "passed off thus: _but we are now old men & of no more account_!!!" This last apostrophe above all the rest roused them to vengeance: they merely scraped the snow off their feet &legs & went immediately in quest of him, vowing vengeance all the way of a most cruel & _ex- emplary_ nature. Nayhanimis was on his guard, every soul able to weild a weapon had one in his hand, besides an infinite number of spears & sharp stakes stuck in the Ground, The H. B.