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and UArcheveque crofiTed it ; and feeing M. de 

 la Salle advancing flowly, they flopped. JDii- 

 ha'ut hid himfelf in the long grafs, with his gun 

 cocked, V Archeveque advanced a little more : 

 and a moment after, M. de la Salle knowing him, 

 afked him where his nephew was ? He anfwered, 

 that he was lower down. At the fame inflaric 

 Vtihaut fired ; M. de la Salle received the fhot in 

 his head, and fell down dead* 



It was the 20th of May 1687 that this mur- 

 der was committed near the Cenis. Father Ana- 

 fiafius^ feeing M. de la Salle drop down at his 

 feet, expeciied that the murderers would not 

 fpare him, though they ihould have no other . 

 view in it than to get rid of a witnefs of their 

 crime. Duhaut came near him to quiet him, 

 and told him, that what they had done was an 

 a6l of defpair, and that they had long thought 

 of revenging thenlfclves on Moranget^ who had 

 endeavoured to ruin them. Father Anajiajius 

 informed M. Cavelier of his brother's death; that , 

 gentlemen told them, that if it was their inten- 

 tion to kill him likewife, he would forgive them 

 his death before hand, and he only demanded, 

 as a favour^ a quarter of an hour to prepare him- 

 felf for death. They replied, that he had no- 

 thing to fear, and that nobody complained of him* 

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