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again ^% lighting his own before them, and that 

 they fliould not leave hinj till his brother was 

 buried. 



He took all the Frenchmen by the hands, and 

 faid, '* Since all the chiefs and noble officers 

 " will have me Hay on earth, I will do it, I will 

 *' not kill myfelf ; let the fires be lighted again 

 " immediately, and Til wait till death joins me 

 ." to my brother ; I am already old, and till I 

 " die I Ihall walk with the French •, had it non 

 *' been for them, I fhould have gone with my 

 " brother, and all the roads would have been 

 " covered with dead bodies." 



This prince only furvived the Stimg Serpent 

 one year, and his nephew fucceeded him. The 

 reign of that young prince proved very unfortu- 

 nate to the colony. You ihall fee, Sir, by the 

 fequel of this letter, that the colony owes its 

 fafety only to the mother of this fovereign ; ihc 

 got from him the fecret of the general confpiracy 

 againft our nation, v/hom fhe loved very much. 



I mud do juftice to the Indians ; the proje(5t 

 which they formed of deftroying all the French 



here, 



- The great Sun had given orders to put out all thfe fires, 

 whicli is only done at the death of the fovereigns. 



