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the fon had always been willing to come to fee 

 thern^ in order to renew the frieiidiliip, which 

 had never ceafed to exiil between his nation and 

 ours, and to fmoke the lame calumet with 

 them. 



It is true, his predecefTor always was inviola- 

 bly attached to M. de Bieni'tlley and the latter 

 granted that Cacique the title of emperor on 

 that account* 



The governor likewife deiired to bring all the 

 tribes of Allihamons to acknowledge the emperor 

 as their grand chief*, but they refufed it faying, 

 that it was quite fufficient that every village was 

 fubjeded to a chief : rn a word, they would 

 change nothing in their form of govern- 

 ment. 



The emperor^ his regent, his chief of war 

 or general, his dodtor or juggler, and his hired 

 fervant appeared at ten o'clock in the rhorning 

 before our commander, where we all were 

 drefled in our uniforms in order to compofe a 

 kind of court for him. As to the emperor, his 

 imperial habit v/as no better this day than 

 that of his attendants, for they all wt-re 



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