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thought the White woman was with
them at the time. I desired
Tackawadden to tell the man & gins
to call out to the rest of the Tribe
to come and make acquaintance
with the Whites - and say we
wanted to make friends with them
and would give them blankets, and
any thing else they might want
if they would give up the White
woman - They said they would
do so, and the man and one gin were
let go to speak to them - they did
not return - The other gins were let
go. We thought it useless to follow
them, as in their retreat, they
went different ways. We then
returned to the Border Police Station
and arrived 21st May.

Hearing from one of the Native
Police that he had seen another
camp near, he went out on the
25th May in the boat with three
of the Border Police, three of the
Native Police and Tack-awadden
to the spot - but there was no
appearance of a Camp. On
returning, I fell in with a few
Camps

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Camps, and took one of the native
men - an old man with grey
hair- He said the white woman
had gone into the Mountains with
a wild Black named Bungeleena
whom Tack-awadden says is a
man of some consideration with
his Tribe - but not Chief. At the
Camp where I took the man, a
Backwater from Lake Reeve, near
the Sea Coast, we found portions
of a Body of a Blackwoman,
being cooked at the several fires,
and some pieces from the thighs
and other parts of the body, put
away in some bark. The Blacks
were eating the flesh, and the
man, through Tackawadden, told
me that it was his gin - that
had died - and acknowledged
having partaken of it. Tack-
awadden said it was not un-
common for the men to kill
their gins and eat them. The
Man also said that the White
woman had received several
wounds in the head from one of
the