"Perceiving that Winnebeg was, like his young men, ready
to do any thing for me. I explained to him my desire to
convey the body of Mr. Heywood across the river, and
bury him secretly in his own grounds, but that it was
necessary, in order to do this effectually, that he and
his son should go with me, and by some circuitous route.
Entering at once into my views, he said he would show me
a place where we could cross without being seen either
from the Fort or from his own encampment, and then led
the way back to the wood where the party were still
waiting.
"The rest is soon told. Dismissing the young men into
the encampment. Winnebeg, with his son, bore the body
within the skirt of the wood, until we reached a bend of
the river hidden from observation, where a canoe with
paddles was drawn up on the beach. There we crossed, and
going round to the rear of the cottage, entered the
garden, and proceeded to the upper end, where at the
summer house, near a favorite rose-tree of Maria's, I
dug with my own hands a hasty grave, in which Winnebeg
and Waunangee placed the body--its only coffin being the
bark that was swathed around it.
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