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ment of troops from the marines, and from the 

 Swifs regiment of HalwyL 



The Sieur Duroux was no fooner come thither, 

 than he looked upon himfelf as abfolute ; he 

 immediately afTumed the right of having a gar- 

 den made by the foldiers of the garrifon ; he 

 likewife employed them to make for him lime 

 from fhells, and chaccoal, but he never paid 

 them ; and thofe who refufed to fubmit to thefc 

 vexations, were fafrened quite naked to a tree, 

 and expoled to the infupportabk attacks of the 

 maringoins or gnats. This was the punifhment 

 which the oiticer made the foldiers of his garri- 

 fon undergo j an unworthy treatment, unexam- 

 pled even among barbarians. 



The Sieur Duroux obliged them to make their 

 bread of the flour faved from the wreck of a 

 Spanifh fliip, which was loft on the coaft ; and 

 fold for his own account che King's flour, in- 

 tended for the ufe of the garrifon. This repeat- 

 ed bad ufage from this comrnander, determined 

 fome foldiers to go to New Orleans, in order to 

 complain to the governor, to whom they fhew- 

 ed fome of the bad bread they were forced to 

 eat ; but M. de Kerlerec paid no regard to their 

 jufl^ remonitranccs, and fent them back at the 



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