Non Wingen.Colonel Crawford! you have placed yourself in a situation which puts it out of my power and that of others of your friends to do any thing for you, no mood oradila, w lis

Crawf How so, Captain Wingenund?

Wingen. By joining yourself to that execrable man, Williamson and his party; the man, who, but the other day murdered such a number of the Moravian Indians, knowing them to be friends; knowing that he ran no risk in murdering a people who would not fight, and whose only business was praying.

Crawf.Wingenund, I assure you, that had I been with him at the time, this would not have happened; not I alone, but all your friends and all good men, wherever they are, reprobate acts of this kind. ; y Wingen.+That may be; yet these friends, these good men did not prevent him from going out again, to kill the remainder of those inoffensive, yet foolish Moravian Indians! I say foolish, because they believed the whites in preference to us. We had often told them that they would be one day so treated by those. people who called themselves their friends! We told them that there was no faith to be placed in what the white men said; that their fair promises were only intended to allure us, that they might the more easily kill us, as they have done many Indians before they killed these Moravians.

CrawfIam sorry to hear you speak thus; as to Williamson's going out again, when it was known that he was determined on it, I went out with him to prevent him from committing fresh murders.

Wingen. This, Colonel, the Indians would not believe, were even I to tell them so.

Crawf.-And why would they not believe it? Wingen. Because it would have been out of your power to prevent his doing what he pleased.

Crawf.-Out of my power! Have any Moravian Indians been killed or hurt since we came out? -Wingen.-None; but you went first to their town,

and finding it empty and deserted path towards us. warriors only, you would not have gone thither. Our spies watched you closely.

you turned on the If you had been in search of

They saw you

while you were embodying yourselves on the other side of the Ohio; they saw you cross that river; they saw where you encamped at night; they saw you turn off from the path to the deserted Moravian town; they knew you were going out of your way; your steps were constantly watched, and you were suffered quietly to proceed until you reached the spot where you were attacked.

Crawf.-What do they intend to do with me? Can

you tell me?

Wingen. I tell you with grief, Colonel. As Williamson and his whole cowardly host ran off in the night, at the whistling of our warriors' balls, being satisfied that now he had no Moravians to deal with, but men who could fight, and with such he did not wish to have any thing to do; 1 say, as and they have taken you, they will take escaped, on you in his stead.

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Crawf. And is there no possibility of preventing this? Can you devise no way to get me off? You shall, my friend, be well rewarded if you are instrumental in saving my life.

1 Wingen. Had Williamson been taken with you, I and some friends, by making use of what you have told me, might perhaps, have succeeded to save you, but as the matter now stands, no man would dare to interfere in your behalf. The king of England himself, were he to come to this spot, with all his wealth and treasures could not effect this purpose. The blood of the innocent Moravians, more than half of them women and children, cruelly and wantonly murdered calls aloud for revenge. The relatives of the slain, who are among us, cry out and stand ready for revenge. The nation to which they belonged will have revenge The Shawanese, our grand-children, have asked for your fellow prisoner; on him they will take revenge. All the nations connected with us cry out Revenge revenge! The Morayians whom you went to destroy having fled, instead of avenging their brethren, the offence is beIcome national, and the nation itself is bound to take “REVENGE!! Mint nom saeiT :sqenynal awo aid ng 1 Crawf Then it seems my fate is decided, and I must prepare to meet death in its worst form? baWingen. Yes! Colonel !I am sorry for it ;) bannot do any thing for you. Had you attended to the Indian principle, that as good and evil cannot odwell together in the same heart, so a good man ought not to go into evil company; you would not

but

be in this lamentable situation. You see, now, when it is too late, after Williamson has deserted you, what a bad man he must be! Nothing now remains for you but to meet your fate like a brave man. Farewell, Colonel Crawford! they are coming*; I will retire to a solitary spot.

I have been assured by respectable Indians that at the close of this conversation, which was related to me by Wingenund himself as well as by others, both he and Crawford burst into a flood of tears; they then took an affectionate leave of each other, and the chief immediately hid himself in the bushes, as the Indians express it, or in his own language, retired to a solitary spot. He never, afterwards, spoke of the fate of his unfortunate friend without strong emotions of grief, which I have several times witnessed. Once, it was the first time that he came into Detroit after Crawford's sufferings, I heard him censured in his own presence by some gentlemen who were standing together for not having saved the life of so valuable a man, who was also his particular friend, as he had often told them. He listened calmly to their censure, and first turning to me, said in his own language: "These men talk like fools," then turning to them, he replied in English: ““If king George himself, if your king had been on "the spot with all the ships laden with goods and

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treasures, he could not have ransomed my friend,

*The people were at that moment advancing, with shouts and yells, to o rture and put him to death.

"nor saved his life from the rage of a justly exas"perated multitude."-HECKEwelder.

SATIRICAL WIT.

An Indian, who spoke good English, came one

day to a house where I was on business, and desired me to ask a man who was there and who owed him some money, to give an order in writing for him to get a little salt at the store, which he would take in part payment of his debt. The man, after reproving the Indian for speaking through an interpreter when he could speak such good English, told him that he must call again in an hour's time, for he was then too much engaged. The Indian went out and returned at the appointed time, when he was put off again for another hour, and when he came the third time, the other told him he was still engaged and he must come again in half an hour. My Indian friend's patience was not exhausted, he turned to me and addressed me thus in his own language: "Tell this man," said he, "that while I have been waiting for "his convenience to give me an order for a little salt, "I have had time to think a great deal. I thought "that when we Indians want any thing of one another, we serve each other on the spot, or if we cannot, we say so at once, but we never say to any "one call again! call again! call again! three times "call again! Therefore when this man put me off " in this manner, I thought that, to be sure, the white 'people were very ingenious, and probably he was "able to do what no body else could. I thought

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