Through the shoulder had passed a musquet ball, which had divided the subclavian artery and caused death by loss of blood.

No mark of any remedy having been applied could be discovered.

Possibly the nature of the wound, which even among us would baffle cure without amputation of the arm at the shoulder, was deemed so fatal, that they despaired of success, and therefore left it to itself.

Had Mr.White found the man alive, there is little room to think that he could have been of any use to him; for that an Indian would submit to so formidable and alarming an operation seems hardly probable.
None of the natives who had come in the boat would touch the body, or even go near it, saying, the mawn would come; that is literally, 'the spirit of the deceased would seize them'.

Of the people who died among us, they had expressed no such apprehension.