Fort St. Frederic. 1 1 



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their habitations, to educate him inftead 

 of their dead brother, and afterwards to 

 marry him to one of their relations. Not- 

 wiihftanding they had perpetrated this adl 

 of violence in time of peace, contrary to 

 the command of the governor in Montreal, 

 and to the advice of the governor of 

 St. Frederic, yet the latter could not at 

 prefent deny them provilions, and what- 

 ever they wanted for their journey, becaufe 

 he did not think it advifeable to exafperate 

 them ; but when they came to Montreal, 

 the governor called them to account for 

 this adion, and took the boy from them, 

 whom he afterwards fent to his relations : 

 Mr. Lnji-gnan afked them, what they 

 would have done to rne and my com- 

 panions, if they had met us in the defert ? 

 They replied, that as it was their chief in- 

 tention to take their revenge on the English- 

 men in the village where their brother was 

 killed, they would have let us alone; but 

 it much depended on the humour they 

 were in, juft at the time when we firft 

 came to their fight. However, the com- 

 mander and all the Frenchmen faid, that 

 what had happened to me was infinitely 

 fafer and better. 



SOME years agoafkeleton of an amazing 

 great animal had been found in that part of 



Canada. 



