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Fort eramm'd with Savages; bat on the other hand, 

 they were equally aftonifh'd to find in our Company 

 their Country- men, to whofe hard Fortune they 

 had been altogether Strangers, The joyful Meeting 

 fiil'd the Air with Acclamations, and Panegyricks 

 rung all about to an extravagant degree. I wifh, Sir, 

 you had been there to partake of the Pleafure of fo 

 fine a Show: had you been prefent, you would 

 have jom'd with me in owning that all our French 

 Rhetorick cannot reach fuch pithy and fignificant Fi- 

 gures , efpecially upon the {core of Hyperboles , as 

 made up the bulk of the Harangues and Songs that 

 thefe poor People utter'd with Rapture and Tranf- 

 port. Michitonka acquainted me, that after he went 

 to the Fort oiMagara, with a Defign to make fome 

 Expedition into the Country of the Tfonontouans, he 

 found that the Scurvey had made fuch a terrible ha- 

 vock in that Fort, that it had fweep'd off the Com- 

 mander, and all the Soldiers, bating twelve, who 

 had the good luck to get over it, as well as Mr. de 

 Bergeres, who by the advantage of a hale Conftituti- 

 on had ftemm'd the raging Violence of that Diftem- 

 per. He informed me farther, That Mr. Bergeres ha- 

 ving refoiv'd to fet out with his twelve Men for the 

 Fort of Frontenac, had defir'd of him a Reinforcement 

 of fome young Quniamis, which was granted him ; 

 that after Mr. Bergeres had embark'd, himfelf march'd 

 over Land to the Country of the Onnontagues, where 

 he rejoin'd the Reinforcement he had granted to Mr. 

 de Bergeres, and underftood from them, that during 

 the Winter the Scurvey had carried off as many Sol- 

 diers at Fort Frontenac as at Niagara ; and, that Mr* 

 de DenonviUe was negotiating a Peace with the Iro- 



The Governour of Fort Frontenac had requefted 

 Michitonka to engage in no Enterprise, and to return 

 home with his Men ; upon which that Leader being 

 in full March homeward, was attacked by three hun- 

 dred 



