ii8 TRAVELS through 



chigamias ♦, one day having got a very great qiian-r 

 tity of game, inftead of bringing it to me, he 

 went to treat * with fome Frenchmen, who 

 gave him brandy in exchange, of which he 

 drank fo much as to lofe the ufe of his 

 reafon. As he entered my lodgings in this 

 condition, I receiv^ed him very ill -, 1 took 

 away the mufl^et which I had given him, and 

 turned him off by pufliing him out of doors : 

 he came, however, into my kitchen again ft my 

 will, lay down in it, and would not go out of 

 it. As foon as he was in his fenfes again, he 

 well conceived what a great fault he had com- 

 mitted ; and, being willing to atone for it, he 

 took a gun, powder, and fnot, and went out. 

 The next day' he returns, and comes in, very 

 haughtily, loaded v/ith game : he had round his 

 naked body a girdle, between which all the heads 

 of the wild fowls were put; he loofened it, and 

 threw them into the middle of my room ; he 

 then fat down hear my fire, without fpeaking % 

 he lighted his calumet, and giving it me to 

 fmoke out of it, he faid, " I own I had loft my 

 " fenfes yeftcrday, but I have found them again: 



" I ac- 



* They call treating^ the exchange or barter of European 

 merchandize againft the furs which the Indians ta'ke in hirnt- 

 in?* 



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