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to have a language of her own, of which Mad. le Blanc remembers a 

 word, Broutut^ fignifyhig bread ox fomcthhig to eat. As to her own lan- 

 guage, Mad. le Blanc remembers hut verv' few words of it; and what 

 fl:ie repeats, as the language of her country, is chiefly French words^ 

 fpoken in the tone and manner of her own country. From which man- 

 ner, it would appear, that the language of her country is little better 

 than inarticulate founds from the throat, in the formation- of which 

 the organs of the mouth have very little (hare. For (he told me that 

 Ihe did not move her tongue at all in fpeaking, and that, when fhe 

 came to France, ihe had no life of her tongue, except in fwallowino-- 

 and her mouth was much lefs than it is at prefent, and almoft round. 

 And when {he laughed, llie did no: open her mouth as we do, but 

 made a little motion, with her upper :ip, and a noife in hex throat 

 by drawing her breath inwards. Thp.' -hen (he was in the woods 

 with her companion, fhe converfed -. h- r by figns, and certain 



cries, fome of which ihe remember-^ . -! 'inicularly after they had 

 fwum the river together, near to bfmgi, fhe got firft out ; and 

 having catched filli, that ihe thought fufficient for them both, ihe 

 gave a call to the negrefs to come to her. That after this a quarrel 

 happened bet^vixt them about a firing of beads, of which, a Gen- 

 tleman of the name of St Martin, was witnefs ; the fame who fir- 

 ed a fhot at her in pailing the river, but of which flie knew no- 

 thing at the time. That the Gentleman, upon ieeing them come 

 out of the water, and run and leap in the manner they did, v/as ex- 

 ceedingly frightened, and fell fick of the fri2:ht. That, after fhe had 

 knocked down her companion, and faw her lying bleeding upon the 

 ground, ihe had comrailion upon her, and run, as that Gentleman 

 faid, with a velocity that is not to be conceived, and catched a fro^- 

 which ihe put upon her companion's head that fhe had broke, and 

 tied it on with fome threads that ihe made of the bark of a tree. 

 That fhe thinks flie mufl: have been very young, not above feven or 

 eight years of age, when Ihc was taken from her own country, be- 



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