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tholic king '^ -, but be ought to refied that it 

 was at the expence of France that he travelled 

 in America, and that it was in the name of his 

 mod Chriftian majefty^ that he and the Sieur 

 Decan took poffeflion of the countries which 

 they had difcovered. He did not fear 

 to advance, that it was with the confent of 

 his Cathohc majefty, his firft fovereign, that 

 fee dedicated his- relation, to William the 

 Third, king of Great Britain, in which he 

 folicits that monarch to conquer thefe vaft regi- 

 ons, and to fend MifTionaries thither, to teach 

 the Indians the Chriftian religion ; a proceeding 

 which excited the ridicule of the Catholics, and 

 fcandalized the Proteftants, who were furprized 

 'to fee a prieft who called himfelf a mifiionary^ 

 exhort a Proteftant fovereign to found a Roman 

 church in Anurica, All his works are befides 

 written in a pompous ilile, which fhocks the 

 reader, arid offends him by the liberties which 

 the author takes, and by his indecent invedives. 

 Father Hennepin thought he might make ufe of 

 the privilege of a traveller ; but he has likewife 

 been much cried down by his fellow-travellers, 

 who have often declared, that he was very un- 

 faithful 



* Fatlisr Hcnneppin was a native of Dcuay, 



