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Another Indian having killed a roebuck, they dri- 

 ed the fielh of the man and the roe, to make ufe 

 of it as provifions on their expeditions. One day 

 ,as they were walking, M. de Belk-IJle being hun- 

 gry, aflced for fomething to eat. An Indian 

 gave him fome human flelli, faying it was of the 

 roe-buck. M. de Belle'IJle eat of it without 

 knowing the cheat •, and the Indian afterwards 

 faid to him : Formerly thou didjl make difficulty^ 

 hut now thou canft eat man's Jlejh as well as our- 

 /elves : at thefe words M. de Belle -IJle threw up 

 all he had eaten. 



About two years after his captivity, fome de- 

 puties arrived at the Attakapas^ from a nation 

 who fent them the calumet of peace. A kind 

 providential care ! This nation lived in New 

 Mexico^ and were the neighbours of the Natchi- 

 toches^ where M. deHuchercs de Saint Denis com- 

 manded, who was beloved and refpe6i:ed by the 

 deputies of this nation, though they lived on 

 Spanilh ground. After attentively confidering 

 M. de Belle-IJle^ they told the Ailakapas^ that in 

 the country from whence they came, there were 

 white men like him : the Aitakapas faid he was 

 a dog^ whom they had found towards the great 

 . lake, where his comrades were llarved to death j 

 that they had brought him to their habitations, 



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