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who fall ill there feldom recover, unlefs 

 they are brought back to Canada. On the 

 contrary, thofe who go from France to thofe 

 iflands can more eafily bear the climate, 

 and attain a great age there, which I heard 

 confirmed in many parts of Canada. 



July the 5th. WHILST we were at dinner, 

 we feveral times heard a repeated difagreeable 

 outcry, at feme diftance from the fort, in 

 the river Woodcreek: Mr. Lufgnan, the 

 governor, told us this cry was no good 

 omen, becaufe he could conclude from it 

 that the Indians^ whom we efcaped near 

 fort Anne, had completed their dsilgn of 

 revenging the death of one of their brethren 

 upon the Englifh, and that their (houts 

 fhewed that they had killed an Englijhman. 

 As foon as I came to the window, I faw 

 their boat, with a long pole at one end, on 

 the extremity of which they had put a bloody 

 fkull. As foon as they were landed, we heard 

 that they, being fix in number, had con- 

 tinued their journey (from the place where 

 we had marks of their paffing the night), 

 till they had got within the Englijh boun- 

 daries, where they found a man and his 

 fon employed in mowing the corn. They 

 crept on towards this man, and mot him 

 dead upon the fpot. This happened near the 

 very village, where the ILnglifh, two years 



before, 



