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was followed by the firing of fome Muskets. Had 

 you but feen, Sir, what Diforder.our Troops and 

 Militia were in amidft the thick Trees, you would 

 have joyn'd with me, in thinking that feveral thou- 

 fands of Europeans are no more than a fufficient num- 

 ber to make head againft five hundred Barbarians. Our 

 Battalions were divided into ftraggling Parties, who 

 fell in to the right and left, without knowing where 

 they went. Inftead of firing upon the Iroquefe, w$ 

 fir'd upon one another. "Twas to no purpofe to call 

 in the Soldiers of fuch and fuch a Battalion, for we 

 could not fee thirty Paces off ; In fine, we were fo 

 diforder'd, that the Enemy were going to clofe in up- 

 on us with their Clubs in their hands; when the Sa- 

 vages of our fide ha ving rally'd, repuls'd the Enemy, 

 and purfu'd 7 em to their Villages with fo much fury, 

 that they brought off the Heads of eighty, and 

 wounded a great many. In this Action we loft ten 

 Savages, and a hundred French : We had twenty or 

 two and twenty wounded, in which number was 

 the good Father Angekran the Jefuk, who received a 

 Musket- foot in thofe Parts which Origen chofe to lop 

 off, in order to qualify himfelf for inftru<5iing the 

 Fair Sex without the oifturbance of Paflion, or the 

 danger of Scandal. When the Savages brought in 

 the Heads of their Enemies to Mr. de Denonville y they 

 ask'd him why he halted, and did not march up? 

 He made Anfwer, That he could not leave his 

 wounded Men behind, and that he thought it pro-* 

 per to encamp, that the Surgeons might have time 

 to drefs their Wounds. To obviate this Pretence, 

 the Savages offered to make Litters for the tranfport-? 

 ing of em to the Village that lay but a little way off. 

 But our General did not approve of their Advice j 

 upon which, notwithftanding his Remonftrances* 

 they drew up int;o a Body, and tho ? they confiftecJ 

 of tea different Nations, agreed in a joynt Refoluti-* 

 qq of purfuing their Eqemy 5 in hopes of taking; a l 



