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and hunting places of your enemies, who will 

 not fail to be revenged for it, as you have un- 

 happily experienced. 



Your father has written to Mr. Adamville, 

 who commands at the Peorias, to make your 

 peape with the Foxes, and to treat with them 

 about the ranfom of your wives and children, 

 whom they have taken prifoners •, the merchan- 

 dizes fhall be furnifhed for that purpofe for the 

 account of the king, your father, grand chief 

 of the white men and of the red men. 



Among the Indians, thofe who run away or 

 . defert in an aclion, where their honour, and the 

 defence of their country is at flake, are not pu- 

 nifhed ; but they are confidered as the difgrace 

 of human nature. The others are continually 

 reproaching them, that they are not men, but 

 old women •, they are defpifed by the very wo- 

 men, and the uglieft girls will not accept of 

 them for hufbands, and if ever it happened that 

 ^ girl fliould be willing to marry a coward, her 

 relations would not allgw of it, for fear of hav- 

 ing men without courage, and ufelefs to their 

 country in their family. Thefe men are obliged 

 $p l^t their hair grow, ancj to wear an alkonan^ 



like 



