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LETTER XVIIL 



To the Same^ 



Defcription of the Country of the Chadaws. Their 

 fVars ; their Way of treating their Sick ; their 

 ^Superjlition j their Commerce ; their Plays of 

 Exercife. Country of the Tchicachas or Chick- 

 faws, our Enemies. 



SIR, 



?^MM"^ Thought of fetting out from hence in 

 Q I p two days, but the defire of knowing 

 k.MMS^ the moll warlike and moft numerous 

 nation oi Louifiana made me change my mind-, I 

 employ my leifure hours to defcribe what I have 

 feen and heard of them. The ChaEia^uos are en- 

 tirely the friends of the French \ they have given 

 proofs of it under the government of M. Terrier^ 

 when they were made ufe of to punifli the Nat- 



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