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ties in dividing the treafnre ; they came to blows, 

 and Hiens iired his piftol at Buhaufs hea^, who 

 reeled, and fell four yards from the place where 

 he flood. At the fame time B.utel the Tailor, 

 whom J out el fetched from the Cenis^ fired a gun 

 at Lietot. That wretch lived yet feveral hours, 

 though he had three balls in his body ; fo the 

 two afTaffms, one of M. de la Salle^ and the 

 other of his nephew Moranget^ were themfelves 

 the victims of that fpiritof fury, which they had 

 infpired to this unhappy colony. 



The Indians knew not what to think of thefe 

 murderers •, they were quite fcandalized by them. 

 They were in the right, and could with more 

 reafon treat thofe Frenchmen as barbarians, than 

 we had to confider them as fuch. Be that as it 

 will, fuch was the tragic death of Robert Cave- 

 Her, Sieur de la Salle^ a man of abilities, of a 

 great extent of genius, and of a courage and 

 firmnefs of mind which might have carried him 

 to fomething very great, if, with thefe good 

 qualities, he had known how to get the better of 

 his fullen, morofe mind, to foften his feverity, or 

 rather the roughnefs of his temper, and check 

 the haughtinefs with which he treated not only 

 thofe who depended entirely upon himfelf, but 

 even his afTociates. The moft unhappy thing 

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