him.  The man fired as he advanced, and the noble Indian again fell on his face:  a few moments’ struggle, and he lay a stiffened corpse on the icy surface of the limpid waters.—­The woman for a moment seemed scarcely to notice the corpse; in a few minutes, however, she showed a little emotion; but it was not until obliged to leave the remains of her husband that she gave way to grief, and vented her sorrow in the most heart-breaking lamentations.  While the scene which I have described was acting, and which occurred in almost less space than the description can be read, a number of Indians had advanced within a shore distance, but seeing the untimely fate of their chief, halted.  Mr. ——­ fired over their heads, and they immediately fled.  The banks of the lake, on the other side, were at this time covered with men, women, and children, at least several hundreds; but immediately being joined by their companions all disappeared in the woods.  We then had time to think.  For my own part I could scarcely credit my senses as I beheld the remains of the noble fellow stretched on the ice, crimsoned with his already frozen blood.  One of the men then went to the shore for some fir tree boughs to cover the body, which measured as it lay, 6 feet 71/2 inches.  The fellow who first stabbed him wanted to strip off his cassock, (a garment made of deer skin, lined with beaver and other skins, reaching to the knees,) but met with so stern a rebuke from ——­, that he instantly desisted, and slunk abashed away.

After covering the body with boughs, we proceeded towards the Indian houses—­the woman often requiring force to take her along.  On examining them, we found no living creature, save a bitch and her whelps about two months old.  The houses of these Indians are very different from those of the other tribes in North America; they are built of straight pieces of fir about twelve feet high, flattened at the sides, and driven in the earth close to each other; the corners being much stronger than the other parts.—­The crevices are filled up with moss, and the inside entirely lined with the same material; the roof is raised so as to slant from all parts and meet in a point at the centre, where a hole is left for the smoke to escape; the remainder of the roof is covered with a treble coat of birch bark, and between the first and second layer of bark is about six inches of moss; about the chimney clay is substituted for it.  On entering one of the houses I was astonished at the neatness which reigned within.  The sides of the tenement were covered with arms,—­bows, arrows, clubs, axes of iron, (stolen from the settlers) stone hatchets, arrow heads, in fact, implements of war and for the chase, but all arranged in the neatest order, and apparently every man’s property carefully put together.  At one end was a small image, or rather a head, carved rudely out of a block of wood; round the neck was hung the case of a watch, and on a board close by, the works of the