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antiments, of which I had a large quantity forsale. These ornaments, however, they in noinstance purchased; but after turning themover, left them, saying that they would callagain the next day. Their motive, as it afterwardappeared, was no other than the veryartful one of discovering, by requesting to seethem, the particular places of their depositso that they might lay their hands on them inthe moment of pillage with the greater certaintyand dispatch.At night I turned in my mind the visitsof Wawatam; but though they were calculatedto excite uneasiness nothing induced me to believethat serious mischief was at hand. Thenext day being the fourth of June was theKing's birthday. 5060Contemporary documents show that the massacreoccurred on June 2 instead of June 4. See letters ofCaptain Etherington in Wis. Hist. Colls., VII, 162-63,and XVIII, 253-54. Editor.77