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This woman could not confent to fee all the 

 French dcftroyed in one day by the confpiracy 

 of the Hatches ; fhe therefore undertook to bid 

 them keep upon their guard ; for that purpofe 

 fhe made ufe of fome Indian girls who had 

 French lovers, but Ihe commanded them ex- 

 prefsly not to fay that they acted by her orders. 



The Sieur de Mace^ enfign of the gafrifon of 

 the fort at the Matches, received advice by a 

 young Indian girl who loved him ; fhe told him 

 crying, that her nation was to mafiacre all the 

 French. M. de Mace^ amazed at this difcourfe^ 

 queftioned his miflrefs : her frniple anfwers and 

 her tender fears left him no room to doubt of 

 the plot : he went immediately to give M. de 

 O^^r intelligence of ir, who put him under arreft 

 for giving a falfe alarm ; feven of the inhabitants 

 of the fort, inftrudled by the fame means, co- 

 ming to afk his leave to take up arms, in order 

 to prevent a furprife, were put in irons ', the go-= 

 vernor treated them as cowards^ and v/as vexed 

 that they endeavoured to infpire him with any 

 miftruft againft a nation that fhewed fo much 

 friendfhip: the regularity of their payments kept 

 up his fecurity : he did not fufped the politics of 

 the Indians ; he blindly defpifed them, nor did 

 he think men of their kind capable of fo much 



cunning. 



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