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referved to be burnt iail, but he efcaped by an 

 odd jlratagem. As he was acquainted with the 

 language of the Indians^ he employed it on this 

 occafion to utter invedives againil them ; and 

 getting loofe, he threw all he found near him 

 at their heads, faying, you are dogs, becaufe you 

 have burnt my chiefs ; I will be burnt too, I fear 

 neither fire nor death, for 1 am a true man, 

 make me fuffer much, becaufe I defire it. The 

 Chick fows^ feeing his refolution, looked upon 

 him as an extraordinary fellow, and granted 

 him his life ; he was afterwards ranfomed by an 

 Englijhman from Carolina^ and is now at Charles- 

 town the capital of that colony. 



In another expedition ^gainit the ^chlcachas^ 

 which was undertaken on the 26thof May in the 

 fame year, and commanded by M. de Bienville^ 

 we had not any more fuccefs ; many brave offi- 

 cers loll their lives in it, and the major-general 

 of the army, and the adjutant received fuch 

 dangerous wounds, that the lafl died of them. 

 I have heard from the Chevalier de Lucer, who 

 iscf a Swifs offspring, that his father, who fer« 

 ved as captain in our troops, had been in this 

 unlucky expedition-, this officer has likewife 

 told me the ftory of the Chevalier de Grondel, 

 who now belongs to the garrifon of MoMle^ and 



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