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never feen cannons, and called them gr^at 

 mufkets. 



He wore on his head a crefl of black plumes % 

 his coat was fcanet, with Englijk cuffs on itj 

 and befet with tinfel lace ; he had neither waift- 

 coat nor breeches, but only an apron made of a 

 bit of fcarlet cloth, which was taken up be- 

 tween the thighs and fattened to his girdle. Un- 

 der his coat he had a white linen lliirt ; his feet 

 were covered with a kind of bufkins, of tanned 

 roe-deer fl<:ins, which were died yellow. As he 

 was a young man, of eighteen or nineteen years 

 old, his nation had appointed a noble and Wife 

 old man as a regent ; he held a fpeech in his fo- 

 vereign's name, and he prefented the calumet of 

 peace to M. Auhert^ who told him after the firft 

 compliments were over, that he (hould go to reft^ 

 it being the cuftom among the Indians, not td 

 fpeak of political affairs till the next day, in or- 

 der to have time to make refledlions. 



The Sieur Lauhene, the king's interpreter, 

 tranflated the difcourfe of the regent, who like- 

 ivife aded as the emperor's chancellor, • he drd 

 not fail to call to mjnd the great fervices which 

 his late father had done to the French, and that 



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