378 A VOYAGE TO Book IX: 



game in the neighbourhood j for this beii>g their 

 only fubfiilence, vvhenever it begins to grow fca-rce, 

 they remove, and the affedionate prieft follows 

 them wherever they go. Many of them come vo-' 

 luntarilv to the French fettlements, hiring themfelves 

 for hufbandry or any other laborious work, and at 

 the expiiation of the time agreed on, return to their 

 countrymen. Ociiers repair to the French fettlements 

 ' in order to diipofc of the ilcins of the beafts they have 

 killed, and furnilh themfelves with the neceíTaries they 

 wane. Thus the French live in an entire fociality and 

 repoie with them, little apprehenfne of any infurrec- 

 tion, or their inclination to any other government, as 

 their own takes care to recommend icfelf to them by 

 the mofl ingratiating meafures ; and the Indians as little 

 haibcur any fulpicions of a defign in the French to 

 erc<5t a tyranny over them, or oí making any infringe- 

 ments on that liberty of which they are fo foüd, or on 

 that indolence to which they are fo remarkably ad- 

 di¿led, that want aione can rouie them to acStion. 



Whi:.n the favages have built their huts, their firft 

 bufinefs is to fccur the country, and thus they continue 

 hunting three or four days fuccefi^ely, or till they 

 judge they have a fufficiency to ferve them fome time ; 

 when they return to their hurs, where they never fail 

 of carrying to the prieil the full amount of his quota. 

 The fkins of quadrupeds they referve for lale, having 

 firft made the due cfiering to the prieif, who, on the 

 produce of them, fuppiies his own necefiities, and like- 

 wife furniflies the chapel ; but its ornaments, like the 

 vefiments of the prieli, are neither remarkable kn their 

 number or fpkndor j their ambulatory life, among 

 other circumftances, i'carce admitting of cither. 



Besides Louiibourg, the only fortified harbour of 

 this ifland, it has other places of good anchorage, 

 on the eaiiern coail, which terminates at Cape Norde; 

 and on that running fouthward from E. to W. Of 

 thtfe, the bcil for fccuiity and largenefs are St. Anne's 



bay, 



