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N^rounds •, the foldiers then ftripped him, and 

 threw his corpfe into the fea. Such v/as the bu- 

 rial and the punifhi.rnt of this petty tyrant^ 

 who was regretted by nobody, for he had no 

 other recommendation than that of the Sieur 

 lluto7ii the governor's firil fecretary. The fol- 

 diers, become mafters of the ifle, fet at liberty 

 an inhabitant whofe name was Beattdrcft, who had 

 been unjuftly imprifoned by the late command- 

 er. The Sieur Duroux had afTumed the privi- 

 leges of an admiral of France, and pretended to 

 ihare with the foldiers and inhabitants all that 

 they fliould fave of any veffcl wrecked upon thef 

 Cats IJland •, and all that refufed to pay him his 

 fliare were feverely punifhedj as if they had 

 committed fome great crime. This was the 

 crime of Beaudrot ', he was put in irons becaufe 

 he would not fhare fome goods with the eom^ 

 mander, which he had faved from the wreck of 

 a Spa/tijli (hip called the Sltuarti which was 

 v/recked on the ifle in 175S* 



The foldiers who had killed M. Diiroux, ha^^' 

 ving afterwards pillaged the effed^s belonging to 

 the King in the Cats fjle^ took the inhabitant 

 whom they had fet free, and obliged him to 

 bring them into the road to the Englifn colony 

 €)f Carolina, When they arrived in th<i country 

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