to North America. 7 ? 



the whole courfe of his Life: At laft, after many 

 Sighs and Groans, he bow'd down his Head, and 

 wrap'd himfelf up in Silence. Quaque fotefi narrat, 

 rejlabant ultima flevit. But this was not the only 

 thing that affe&ed me, when I beheld the mifery of 

 thefe innocent Creatures: I faw fome young Sava- 

 ges of our fide burn their Fingers with Fire in their 

 lighted Pipes; which provok'd me to threfh 'em 

 foundly : but I was feverely reprimanded for my 

 pains, and confin'd to my Tent for five or fix days, 

 where 1 only repented that I had not dealt my blows 

 in a double meafure. Thefe Savages refented the 

 matter fo highly, that they ran prefently to their 

 Hutts, and flew to their Fufees,, in order to kill me. 

 Nay, all that could be done was fcarce fufficient to 

 appeafe em ; for the Difpute came to that heighth, 

 that they would have left us, if it had not been thac 

 our Men affur'd "em I was [| drank, 

 that all the French were prohibited II Among the Savages, 

 to give me either Wine or Brandy, d ™ nken Pe f" s ff 



V i T n M . * i . always excus a : for, 



and that I fhouid certainly be itn- the BmIe mo J f , r 

 prilond as foon as the Campaign #u crimes. 

 were over. However, the poor * 

 Wretches, the Prifoners, were carried to Quebec ; 

 from whence they are to be fent to the French Gal- 

 leys. Much about that time, the Sieur de la Foreft, 

 one of the Mr. de la Salle's Officers, arriv'd at the 

 Fort in a great Canow, being conduced thither by 

 eight or ten Coureurs de Bois. He gave Mr. de Denon- 

 viSe to underftand, that a Party of the Illinefe and 

 the Oumamts waited for the Hurons and the Oataouas 

 at the Lake of St. Claire, in order to joyn em, and 

 to march with joint Forces to the River of the 7f<h 

 ■nontouansy that being the place of their general Ren- 

 dezvous. He added, that in the Lake of the Haronf 

 ftear Mljfilimakinacy Mr. de la Burantats, affifted by 

 the Savages., .our Aljies, had taken an Engltfh Com- 

 pany conducted by fome froquefe,. who had fifty 



thoufand 



