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On this occafion, I told him I was a true many 

 that 1 feared not death, that I had given up my 

 body *, and was willing to die, being perfuaded 

 that if he killed me and my warriors, who 

 were but few, the grand chief of the French, 

 beyond the great lake, would revenge my blood 

 on their nation, by fending as many warriors 

 there, as there ape leaves on the trees. 



Thefe men were furprifed at my refolution ; 

 they faid, " That I was a ma7i of valour ; that I 

 " made them recover their wits v/hich they had 

 *' loft in forming the deteftable defign of leaving 

 " their father's hand, but that they hoped I 

 ^' would forget what was paft, becaufe I was 

 *' very good." At the end of this harangue, 

 they prefented the calumet of peace to me, 

 which I accepted on condition that I lliould 

 fmoke with a new fire out of it, to fignify an 

 eternal oblivion of what had paft, and a reno- 

 vation of the alliance with the Cha5lawSy chil- 

 dren of the grand chief of the French. To 

 convince them that I would forget the paft, I 

 told them that the fire would be produced of 

 itfelf. 



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* That is., devoted my{d^ to ^^ for my country. 



