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hands, arms, &c. yet is no more, but is gone above to tbe mofl: 

 liigh; and then the ceremony is concluded with what fhe calls «« 

 cri dt triftejfe^ which is a cry that they alfo ufe upon occafion of any 

 danger or diftrefs, and which fhe remembers to have ufed upon a 

 particular occafion to the terror and aftonifhment of rhe whole neio;h- 

 bourhood. Befides this fervice of the dead, (he has preferved feve- 

 ral words and phrafes of her language, particularly the name of a lit- 

 tle bludgeon, which is Boutou*i and her longer ftick, with the iron 

 upon it, fhe calls Triblee^ which is probably a word of the country 

 where flie got it. The phrafe for wounding one, is to make him redy 

 and for killing, to make him fteep long ; and, by way of falutation, 

 they fay, I fee you. It appears that fhe muft have been fome con- 

 fiderable time in the country where fhe was firft landed, afrer fhe 

 was taken from her own country; for fhe fays, in that country, fhe 

 got her Tribiee^ and learned the ufe of it ; and fhe remembers very 

 well, that fhe was a long time in the pofTeffion of a man who want- 

 ed to make her work and, on that account, as fhe faid before, beat 

 her and treated her very ill ; and fhe remembers ver^^ well, that his 

 wife was a handfome tall woman, who was very kind to her, and 

 ufcd to hide her, when her hufband was feeking her to make her 

 work. And it was, no doubt, with a view to fell her as a negro flave 

 that they painted her black. That the female negro, that fhe had 

 with her in the woods of Champagne, fhe firfl became acquainted with 

 aboard the ihip ; that the negrefs could not fwim very well, but ihe 

 helped her. The negrels did not fpeak the language of Mademoifelle 

 le Blanc's country, but had fome words of French, a.id beiidej. ieemed 



to 



• This is a wor J of the Caribbee language, mentioned by Sieur la Beaud in his ac- 

 count of the Caribbees, who has defcnbcJ this weapon, and particularly taken notice 

 of fome gravings upon it, by way of ornament, filled up with painting. Of thiS grav- 

 ing, upon her Biutou, this girl fpoke much ; fo that, I th iik, there can be no doubt, 

 but that ihe got this weapon among tlv- Caraibes, in one of the Antilles Ifiands, wliich 

 certainly v;as the warm country to wliich the was brought, after Ihe was taken away 

 from her own. 



