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making great Promifes of their fidelity to the fame, beg- 

 ging with great Agony of Spirit to Save their Lives, and 

 to protect them from his Salvages, whom they extreamly 

 dreaded: As to the matter of the Salvages, He told them, 

 It would be juft Retaliation for him to permit his Salvages 

 to treat the French in the fame manner, as the French with 

 their Salvages treated our friends in our Frontier Towns: 

 But as to his taking them under the Protection of the 

 Crown of England, he utterly refufed it, urging to them 

 their former Perfidioufnefs; they alfo urging to him, that 

 it would be impollible for any French to live any where in 

 the Bay of Fundy, if they were not taken under the Eng- 

 li/Ji Government; for with the benefit of thofe Whale- 

 boats, 331 (as the EngliJJi called them) they could take and 

 deftroy all their People in the Town of Menis in one 

 Night: But he reply'd to them, It mould never be; alledg- 

 ing to them that when they were fo before, when Port 

 Royal was taken laft by the EnglifJi that it proved of very 

 ill confequence to the Crown of England, & the Subjects 

 thereof in our Frontiers ; for that our Englijh Traders fup- 

 plying them; enabled them (which opportunity they im- 



2' sl The ftrefs laid upon " whaleboats," defcription — exceedingly difficult; a 



both by Church in his report of his laft difficulty which the boats removed, fince 



expedition (p. 147) and his letter to they could act as tenders, and leave the 



Gov. Dudley (p. 131), and by the en- fhip in deep water ; and by the fact, that 



emy, is explained by the faift that the their fwiftnefs made them more formid- 



enormous rife and tall of the tides in able in the purfuit of canoes than any 



and near the Bay of Fundy made land- other craft then in ufe, and their light 



ing from, and coafting in, ordinary vef- draft enabled them to go in fiiallow 



fels — in that day when wharf con- water, and their light weight made them 



veniences were of the moll primitive efpecially available at the fortunes. 

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