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Angufl the i2th. THIS afternoon I and 

 my fervant 'werit out of town, to flay in 

 the country for a couple of days that I might 

 have more leifure to examine the plants 

 which grow in the woods here, and the 

 flate of the country. In order to proceed 

 the better, the governor-general had fent 

 for an Indian from Lorette to {hew us the 

 way, and teach us what ufe they make 

 pf the fpontaneous plants hereabouts. This 

 Indian was an Englifhman by birth, taken 

 by the Indians thirty years ago, when 

 he was a boy, and adopted by them, 

 according to their cuftom, inftead of a 

 relation of theirs killed by the enemy. 

 Since that time he conftantly flayed with 

 them, became a Roman Catholic and married 

 an Indian woman: he dreffes like an Indian, 

 fpeaks Eng/tft) and French, and many of 

 the Indian languages. In the wars between 

 the FrenchznA Eng!ifh> in this country, the 

 French Indianshzve made many prifcners of 

 both fexS in the Englifh plantations, '^opt- 

 ed them afterwards, and they married with 

 people of the Indian nations. From hence 

 the Indian blood in Canada is very much 

 jnixed^ith European blood, and a great 

 part of the Indians now living, owe their 

 origin to Europe. It is likewife remarkable, 

 fhat a great part of the people they had 



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