5 6 Some New Vopges 



roua, with fome Companies of Marines. He comes 

 to fupply the place of Mr. de Meuks, whom the 

 King recalls upon the unjuft complaints that are 

 ynade of him. He is charged with preferring his 

 private Intereft to the publick Good ; but the charge 

 Is falfe, and he will eafily clear himfejf. I am apt 

 to believe he may have carry'd on fome under- 

 Iianfl Commerce, but in fo doing he injured no bo- 

 dy j nay , on the contrary he has procured Bread 

 for a thoufand poor Creatures, that without his Af- 

 fiance would have ftarv'd for Hunger. This new 

 Jntendant is defcended of one of the moft Illuftri- 

 ous Families of the Robe in France. He is faid to 

 be a Man of Honour, and Fame entitles hisLady to 

 a diftingutfhing Merit : I underftand, he and Mr. 

 Pfflonville art bound fpeedily for Monreal, where they 

 piean to take a review oi the Inhabitants of this 

 Ifland f and of the Neighbouring Cantons. Proba- 

 bly, they take fuch precautions in order to fome 

 effort againft the Iroquefe. Laft Winter we had 

 no nevv Occurrences in the Colony. I fpent the 

 whole Winter at the hunting of Orignals or Elks 4- 

 Song with the Savages, whole Language I am lear- 

 ping, as I have intimated to you feverai times. 



The hunting of ESks is performed upon the Snow, 

 with fuch Rackets as you fee defign'd in theannex'd 

 Cutt* Thefp Rackets are two Foot and a half long, 

 and fourteen Inches broad ; their ledges are made 

 of a very hard Wood, about an Inch thick, that 

 faftens the Net juft like a Tennis Racket, from 

 which they differ only in this; that thofe for thq 

 Tennis are made of Gut-ftringi, whereas the others 

 fire made of little thongs of the skins of Harts or 

 filks. In the Cut, you may perceive two little (pars 

 pf Wood, which run a-crofs to render the Net fir- 

 mer and ftiffer. The hole that appears by the two 

 |atchets, is the place in which they put the Toes 

 a lid fore-pan of the Foot j fo that \h tied fart by 



