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 into the whole assembly, that they dismissed his uncle.

When he landed at, he saw the sentinel, who kept watch towards the sea, running off to , to give , who was there with a hundred and twenty men, an account of the invasion. He told, one of his followers, that if he intercepted that dangerous intelligence, by catching the courier, he would give him certain lands in. Upon this promise, pursued the messenger, and either killed, or stopped him; and his posterity, till very lately, held the lands in.

The alarm being thus prevented, he came unexpectedly upon. Chiefs were in those days never wholly unprovided for an enemy. A fight ensued, in which one of their followers is said to have given an extraordinary proof of activity, by bound-