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As they advanced further into the country, 

 they found it inhabited ; and when they were 

 but forty leagues from the nation of thie CeniSy 

 they heard that there was a Frenchman among 

 thofe Indians. It was a failor from Lower Bre- 

 tjany\ who had loft himfelf when M. de la Salle 

 firft came down the Mifflftppi : this poor wretch 

 lived among the Cents fince 1682, having been 

 adopted by them. He did not hope to fee Eu- 

 rope again, nothing but chance could procure 

 him the means of returning thither : Joutel went 

 to fetch him from amongft thofe Indians. He 

 only quitted them to be witnefs of a crime. 



The 17th of May, Moranget being on a hunt- 

 ing party, and having, as it is faid, abufed 

 with words Buhaut^ Hiens^ and the furgeon 

 Lieloty thofe three men rcfolved to get rid of him 

 as foon as poflible, and to begin with the fervant 

 of M. de la Salle^ and his Indian huntfman who 

 was called Nika^ who both accompanied Moran- 

 gety and could have defended him. They com- 

 municated their defign to U Archeveque and the 

 pilot TeJJier^ who approved of it, and defired to 

 take part in the execution. They did not fpeak 

 of it to. the Sieur de Marne^ who was with them, 

 and whom they wifhed to have been able to get 

 away. The next night, whilft the three unhap- 

 py vidims whom they would facrifice to their 



revenge 



