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Since that time he has never drank wine, or any 

 fpiritLious liquors y I have fent people to offer 

 them to him, but he always refufed them, fay- 

 ing, that he had ftruck at the poft, and that 

 the Lord of life would be angry with him ; that 

 I had told him that this Spirit could not be de- 

 ceived : he rocolle6led that on-ce I had named 

 the number of glaffes of brandy which he had 

 drunk, without my having feen him ; to which' 

 he had anfwered, that it was very true, and that 

 he believed that the great Spirit that fees every 

 thing mufc have told me of it. i took the follow- 

 ing method when I wanted to know how many 

 drams my Indian had taken. I left a clean 

 glafs near a barrel of brandy ; the Indian, being 

 alone, was tempted to drink a glafs ; after 

 which 1 ordered the glafs to be wafned in hot 

 water, ^nd put in its place again ; and every 

 time he drank, my people always did the fame 

 thing. Accordingly it was very eafy for me to 

 tell him, thou haft taken fo many drams ; he 

 was always amazed at it, and thought I was a 

 forcerer. 



I have often remarked, that the Indians are 

 highly pleafed when the French carefs their lit- 

 tle children -, likewife, in order to make myfelf 

 beloved and feared by them at the fame- time, 



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