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religion engages us to afTift the unhappy in time 

 of danger. Such were the officers in whom 

 the governor of Louifiana put confidence. 



We have juft received advice, that a party of 

 warriors of the nation of CherokeeSy commanded 

 by their chief of war called JVolf^ have taken 

 the fort London belonging to Great Britain, and 

 that the Englilh governor of it, M. Damery^ has 

 been killed by the Indians, who have put earth 

 in his mouth, faying, You dog, fince you are 

 fo very greedy of earth, be fatisfied and gorged 

 with it ; they have done the fame to others. 



If I do uot fet out for France^ I fliall write to 

 you from New Orleans^ concerning the difcord 

 between the two chiefs of the colony, M. de 

 Kerkrec the governor, and M. de Rochemore the 

 Qrdonnateur. I am, S J R, &c. 



At Fort Mobile y the loth 

 cf January 1760, 



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