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fufficiently cautious in the thoice of thofe who 

 are to be fent as governors into thofe parts. The 

 Indians, notwithftanding the ideas we have of 

 them, are not always eafiiy managed j poli-. 

 tics and wifdom mud neceflarily be employed, 

 in order to obtain their friendlliip ^ they will not 

 be offended with impunity, this hiftory is a 

 proof of it -, nothing could be better conduced 

 than the plot of the Natchss i and how unhappy 

 had it been, v/ithout the interpofition of Provi- 

 dence ! The Sun Stung Arm w^as v/orthy of the 

 greatefl: acknowledgements, but it is not well 

 known how they have been made to her. 



The nations who entered into the plot with 

 the Natches^ not knowing the ftratagem by 

 which the flroke had been advanced, believed 

 they were betrayed : The Cha5faw nation ima- 

 gined, that the Notches were unwilling to give 

 them their iliare of the plunder of the French ; 

 \\n^*^ to convince the latter that they had no part 

 in the conjuration, they joined them in order to 

 chaftife the Natchcs, Thefe returned the French 

 women and the negroes whom they had taken ; 

 ibme time after they were attacked in their in- 

 trenchments, but cfcaped by tlie help of a thun-. 

 der-ilorm, and quitted the country. About a 

 thoufand of them were taken and brought to 

 New Orleans^ and afterwards fold to the ifle of 



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