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The T^chicachas^ or ChickfawSy^ only punifh 

 adultery with whipping the two offenders who 

 have been caught in the fa6i:, making them run 

 naked through the village ^ after which the huf- 

 band repudiates his wife. 



As thefe Indians gave fnelter to the NatcheSy 

 after the maflacre of the French^ the latter armed 

 in 1736 againil, and attacked them, with 

 the united forces of the whole colony, but with- 

 out fuccefs. 



M. (T Artaguette major and governor for the 

 king, in the country of the Illinois^ came to join 

 M. de Bienville the governor of Louijiana ; he 

 brought him the troops of the Illinois^ and from 

 the frontiers of Canada^ but the army which 

 that officer commanded, was furprifed and de- 

 feated, becaufe he had been abandoned by the 

 Indians^ who were our allies. M. d'Artaguette 

 was taken, with feven officers, and about twenty- 

 fix foldiers and inhabitants, by the Chickfaws^ 

 v;ho burnt them alive : among them was the 

 Father Senat a Jefuit, who went with M. d'Ar- 

 taguette in the quality of chaplain. The detail 

 of this tragic leene has been related by a ferjeant, 

 called Louis Gamot^ who was a fpeflator of the 

 fad fate which his companions underwent \ he 

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