This Proposal Increased His Ill-Nature, He Threw Out Some Obscure Hints Of Freeing Himself From All Restraint On The Morrow, And I Overheard His Muttering Threats Against Hepburn Whom He Openly Accused Of Having Told Stories Against Him.

He also for the first time assumed such a tone of superiority in addressing me as evinced that he

Considered us to be completely in his power and he gave vent to several expressions of hatred towards the white people or as he termed us in the idiom of the voyagers, the French, some of whom he said had killed and eaten his uncle and two of his relations. In short, taking every circumstance of his conduct into consideration, I came to the conclusion that he would attempt to destroy us on the first opportunity that offered, and that he had hitherto abstained from doing so from his ignorance of his way to the fort, but that he would never suffer us to go thither in company with him. In the course of the day he had several times remarked that we were pursuing the same course that Mr. Franklin was doing when he left him and that, by keeping towards the setting sun, he could find his way himself. Hepburn and I were not in a condition to resist even an open attack, nor could we by any device escape from him. Our united strength was far inferior to his and, beside his gun, he was armed with two pistols, an Indian bayonet, and a knife.

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