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Sl Domingo, Among thefe prifoners was the 

 Great Sun, his wife, and his mother, who rela- 

 ted to the French the above detail of the plot. 

 The Great Sun difowned the maflacre -, he faid 

 that his nation had abufed his youth, in or- 

 der to flrike this blow ; that he had always lov- 

 ed the French ; that it was their own chief who 

 had compelled the Natches to this defperate 

 adlion, by his extortions upon a free nation. 

 The French were contented with his difavowal ; 

 they treated him and his mother and wife with 

 gentlenefs ; but as they did not return to their 

 nation, they foon died with grief. Since that 

 time this country is not inhabited : the Natches^ 

 being purfued by the French, and being too 

 weak to refifl them, took refuge among the Chi- 

 cachas^^ where they found an afylum. 



We ftill have a fort here, but the colony is 

 far from being brilliant ; the means of eftablilh- 

 ing it would be to attradl other Indians to it. 

 This is all. Sir, which I can relate to you con- 

 cerning this part of the country. I Ihall now 

 foon leave it, and continue my voyage ; and I 

 conclude my letter, by renewing to you the pro- 

 teftations of thofe fentiments which you know 

 me capable of. And am, SIR, &c. 



At the Natches, Sept, 



10. 1751. -^ ^ L rL T^ 



f Chickafavys, 



