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and efpecially what fine fights he had feen at Pa-' 

 ris : he anfwered, that it was the Rue de Bouche- 

 ries, (the fliambles) becaufe there was a great 

 abundance of flefh ; and after that the Rue St, 

 Honorc. When he told his countrymen that he 

 had feen the opera, and that all the people there 

 are jugglers or forcerers ; and that he likewife 

 faw, upon the Pont-Neuf^ fome little men who 

 danced and fung *, they would not believe him. 

 When he faid, that, in the great village of the 

 French (Paris), he had feen as many people as 

 there are leaves on the trees in their forefi:s, (an 

 hyperbole which the Indians make ufe of to ex- 

 prefs a great number, having no words to ex- 

 prefs a number above a hundred), they anfwer- 

 ed, that the Europeans probably had fafcinated 

 his eyes, that it was impoffible, and that they 

 had always ofi^ered the fame obje6ls to his eyes. 

 He faid that he had feen the huts of the grand 

 chief of the French, i. e. Verfailles and Louvre^ 

 and that they contained more people than there 

 are in their country : he likewife added, that he 

 had feen the hut of the old warriors, (the royal 

 Jiofpital of invalids). As this old Indian began 

 already to doat, he agreed with the other Indians, 

 that the French had bewitched him. Another 



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