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♦* our blood J our women lamented without intef^ 

 *' miflion the lofs of their relations, and durft not 

 *' venture to go and fetch wood for preparing 

 " our vidluals ; at the leall fhriek of the birds 

 ^ of night all our warriors were on foot ; they 

 *^ never flept without their arms ; our huts were 

 *' abandoned, and our fields lay fallow ; we had 

 '* all of us empty flomachs, and our faces look- 

 ** ed long and meagre ; the game and wild-fowl 

 *' fled far from us ; the ferpents angrily hifled 

 •' at us ; and the birds that perched near our 

 ** habitations feemed, by their doleful notes, to 

 ** fing us fongs of death. 



*^ To-day the fun is bright, the (ky is ferene^" 

 " the clouds are Vanifhed, the roads covered 

 *' with flowers ; our gardens and fields fhall 

 " henceforth be cultivated, and we will offer 

 " their firft-fruits to the great fpirit •, the water 

 *' is fo clear that we fee ourfelves in it ; the fer- 

 *' pents fly from us j the birds amufe us by the 

 '^ fweetnefs and harmony of their fongs ; our 

 *' wives and children dance, and forget to eat and 

 *' to drink ; the whole nation laughs for joy, to 

 " fee us walk on the fame road with thyfelf and 

 *' the French •, the fame fun fliall light us, we 

 " fhall have but one and the fame fpeech, " and 

 *' our hearts fliall make but one ^ we will kill 

 ^ them that ftiall kill the French s our warriors 



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