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' up into the woods, hoping to be better imployed, with 

 ' the reft of the Army, I liften'd to hear, and looked earn- 

 ' eftly to fee what might be the next action; but meeting 

 ' with many of the Souldiers, They told me, they had dif- 

 ' covered nothing; we fetching a fmall compafs round, 

 ' came down again. It being pretty dark, I took notice, 

 ' I faw two men lay dead as I thought, at the end of 

 ' the houfe, where the door was, and immediately the 

 ' Guns went off, and they tired every man as I thought, 

 ' and moft towards that place where I left the guard with 

 ' Monfieur G our dan. I had much ado to flop their firing, 

 ' and told them, I thought they were mad, and I believed 

 ' they had not killed and wounded lefs than 40 or 50 of 

 'our own Men. And I asked them what they fhot at? 

 ' They anfwered at a French man that ran away: but to 

 ' admiration no man was kill'd, but he, & one of our own 

 ' men wounded in the Leg; and I turning about, a French 

 .* man fpoke to me, and I gave him quarter. Day-light 

 ' coming on and no difcovery made of the Enemy, I went 

 ' to the place where I had left Monfieur Gourdan, to ex- 

 ' amine him, and his Sons, who agreed in their examina- 

 ' tions; told me two of their men were abroad: It prov'd a 

 ' damage; and further told me, That Monfieur Sharkce 

 1 lived feveral Leagues up at the head of the River, at the 

 'Falls; 314 and all the Indians were fifhing, and tending 

 'their Corn there; and that Monfieur Sharkee had fent 



314 Great Falls, — " where the water delcends 20 feet in a fliort diftance "? [Wil- 

 liamfon's Hift. Me. i : 86.] 



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