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*• it is not proper for me to be abfent, and to leave it un-* 



guarded in fuch Circumftances. As for the French, nothing 

 ' can detain them here, but an Intereil which they ought to 



facrifice to your Prefervation. This is what I have given 

 " them to underftand, and have farther told them, that if any one 

 *< of them fell into the Hands of the Enemy, it would only be 



the Lofs of a Man, whereas a Father was alone to be efteem- 

 ^* ed as many, and that they ought to run all Hazards, to pre- 



vent fo great a Misfortune/' 



I was charmed. Madam, with the Wifdom of this Man, and 

 more ftill with his Generofity, which inclined him, out of his 

 Regard for me^ to deprive himfelf of four Men, whofe Affiftance 

 was a Matter of Confequence, in his prefent Situation. I made no 

 Doubt before, that in his Willingnefs to detain me, he had a View 

 of making Ufe of my Efcort in Cafe of Need. I gave him 

 many Thanks for his Good-will and his Care, and I afTured 

 him that I was very well fatisiied with the Freficby that I would 

 divide them with him, and leave him two for his Defence, in 

 Cafe he fhould be attacked ; that the other two fhould accom- 

 pany me till 1 was in a Place of Safety, and with this Rein- 

 forcement I fhould think myfelf in a Condition to go any 

 where without Fear. He prefled me no further to itay, and I 

 retired. 



This Morning he came to pay me a fécond Vifit, accompanied 

 jj . with his Mother-in-Lavv, who carried a young 



tie catijes bis ^j^.^^ ^^^^ . You fee, faid he, ad- 



Daughter to be drefîinç^ himfelf to me, a Father in great 

 tapttxed. Afflidion. This is my Daughter, who is 



dying, her Mother died in bringing her into the World, and 

 no V/oman could faccceed in nurfmg her. She brings up all 

 fhe takes, and has perhaps but a few Hours to live : You 

 will do me a Pleafure to baptize her, that fhe may go to fee 

 ** God after her Death." The Child was really very ill, and 

 pafl all Hopes of Recovery, fo I made no Scruple to bap- 

 ^ tize it. 



Should my Travels have been ufelefs in all other Refpe6b, I 

 acknowledge to you. Madam, I fhould not regret all the Fa- 

 tigues and Dangers of them, fmce, in all Probability, if I had 

 not come to Pimiteouy, this Child had never gone to Heaven, 

 where I make no Doubt fhe will foon arrive. I hope alfo, that 

 this little Angel will obtain for her Father the fame Grace he 

 has procured for her. I depart an Hour hence, and I trufl thi-s 

 Letter with the two French??icn I leave here, and who intend to 

 take the £ril: Opportunity to return to Canada, 



J ant) &c. 



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