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crime of which he was accused. From theaccount he now proceeded to give it appearedthat the family had consisted of his. uncle andaunt, their four children, and himself. Oneof the children was a boy of fifteen years ofage. His uncle, after firing at several beasts ofthe chase, all of which he missed, fell into despondence,and persuaded himself that it wasthe will of the Great Spirit that he shouldrish. In this state of mind, he requestedis wife to kill him. The woman refused tocomply; but the two lads, one of them, as hasbeen said, the nephew, and the other the sonof the unhappy man, agreed between themselvesto murder him, to prevent, as our informantwished us to believe, his murderingthem. Accomplishing their detestable purpose,they devoured the body; and faminepressing upon them still closer, they successivelykilled the three younger children, uponwhose flesh they subsisted for some time, andwith a part of which the parricides at lengthset out for the lake, leaving the woman, whowas too feeble to travel, to her fate. On theirway, their foul victuals failed; the youthbefore us killed his companion; and it was apart of the remains of this last victim that hadbeen discovered at the fire.The Indians entertain an opinion that theman who has once made human flesh his foodwill never afterward be satisfied with anyother. It isprobable that we saw things in200