Accidents > Dangers of the deep, or, Narratives of shipwreck and adventure at sea

200 SUFFEKIMGS AMOEG THE INDIAK9.
stem countenance was well calculated to raise
such sensations in his dependents. He seem¬
ed to be a cacique, or chief man among them,
by the airs of importance he assumed to him¬
self, and the deference paid him by the rest.
After some little conference passed between
these Indians, and our cacique conductor, of
which, most probably, the circumstances of
our history, and the occasion of our coming
here, might be the chief subject, for they fix¬
ed their eyes constantly upon us, they ap¬
plied themselves to building their wigwams.
I now understood that the two Indian women
with whom I had sojourned, were wives to
this chieftain, though one was young enough
to be his daughter; and as far as I could learn,
did really stand in the different relations to
him both of daughter and wife. It was easy
to be perceived that all did not go well between
them at this time: either that he was not sa¬
tisfied with the answers that they returned
him to his questions, or that he suspected
some misconduct on then- side ; for presently
after, breaking out into savage fury, he took
the young one up in his arms, and threw her
with violence against the stones; but his bru¬
tal resentment did not stop her, he beat her