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over his fortune and welfare, and that this godwould take care that such pernicious attempts,on the part of the disgraced chief, should notaffect the other chiefs of his army, or if theydid, that he should be made acquainted with itby the priest.—The company now dispersed.

After this period Mappa Haano always woremats as significant of his degraded state. Heseldom attended any public ceremonies or as-semblies, because it obliged him to sit alongwith the common people, and he could notbrook, on such occasions, to feel so much hisinferiority to other chiefs who formerly were hisequals. It must not be supposed that he al-ways wore these mats from pure humility, butrather from fear, for had he appeared withoutthem, Finow might have been angry, and deathmight have been the consequence.

There being now every day some desertion oranother from either army to the opposite one, theking issued orders that every deserter from theenemy should be put to death, the same as if hehad been a deserter from himself. This he didthe better to avoid all communication betweenthe two contending armies.

For some time past several of Finow’s menhad been killed in different instances, by threeor four of the enemy, under the command ofa warrior named Moteita, a most expert and