RENE LAUDONNIERE a.d. 



1564. 



Vasseur being grieved that he understood not these 

 ceremonies, demanded of the Paracoussy what these 

 things meant : which answered him slowly, Thimogoa, 

 Thimogoa, without saying any more. Being more dis- 

 pleased then he was before with so sleight an answere, 

 he turned unto another Indian the Paracoussyes brother, 

 who was a Paracoussy as well as his brother, called 

 Malica, which made him a like answere as hee did at the KingMalica, 

 first, praying him to aske no more of these matters, and 

 to have patience for that time. The subtill old Para- 

 coussy prayed him within a while after, to shew him his 

 sword, which he would not denie him, thinking that hee 

 would have beheld the fashion of his weapons : but he 

 soone perceived that it was to another ende : for the old 

 man holding it in his hand, behelde it a long while on 

 every place, to see if he could finde any blood upon it, 

 which might shew that any of their enemies had bene 

 killed : for the Indians are woont to bring their weapons 

 wherewith their enemies have beene defeated, with some 

 blood upon them, for a token of their victories. But 

 seeing no signe thereof upon it, he was upon the point 

 to say unto him, that he had killed none of the men of 

 Thimogoa : when as Vasseur preventing that which hee 

 might object, declared and shewed unto him by signes, 

 the maner of his enterprise, adding, that by reason of the 

 two Indians which he had slaine, his sword was so 

 bloudy, that hee was inforced to wash and make it cleane 

 a long while in the River : which the olde man beleeved 

 to be like to be true, and made no maner of replie 

 thereunto. 



Vasseur, La Caille, and their other companions went 

 out of the hal to go into the roome whither they had 

 carried the Indian : there they found the Paracoussy 

 sitting upon tapistries made of small reedes, which was Tapistry made 

 at meate after the Indian fashion, and the Indian that of small reeds. 

 was smitten hard by him, lying upon the selfe same 

 tapistry, about whom stoode the wife of the Paracoussy, 

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