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The three principal Savage Nations that live upon 

 the Coaftsof Acadia, are the Abenakis, the Mikemak 9 

 and the Canibas. There are fome other erratick Na- 

 tions, who go and come from Acadia, to New-England} 

 and goby the names of Mahingans,Soccokis,znA Of man- 

 go. Th e firft three ^having fix'd Habitations) are in- 

 tirely in the interefts of the French-, and I mud fay, that 

 in time of War they gall the Englifi Colonies with 

 their Incurfions, fo much, that we ought to take 

 care to perpetuate a good undemanding between 

 them and us, The Baron of Saint Caftans, a Gen- 

 tleman of Qleron in Beam, having liv'd among the 

 Abenaki* after the Savage way, for above twenty 

 years, is fo much refpe&ed by the Savages, that they 

 look upon him as their Tutelar God. He was for- 

 merly an Officer of the Carignan Regiment in C*- 

 nada; and upon the breaking of that Regiment, 

 threw himfeif among the Savages, whofe Language 

 he had learn'd. He married among 'ern after their 

 faftiion, and prefer'd the Forrefts of Acadia to the 

 Vyrenean Mountains, that encompafs the place of his 

 Nativity : For the firft years of his abode with the 

 Savages, he behav'd himfeif fo, as to draw an inex- 

 preflihle efteem from 'em. They made him their 

 Great Chief or Lea der, who is in a manner the So- 

 veraign of the Nation ; and by degrees he has workM 

 himfeif into fuch a Fortune, which any Man but 

 he would have made fuch ufe of, as to draw out of 

 that Country above two or three hundred thouiand 

 Crowns, which he has now in his Pocket in good 

 dry Gold. But all the ufe he makes of it, is, tb 

 buy up Goods for Prefents to his Fellow-Sa- 

 vages, who upon their return from Hunting, pre-- 

 fent him with Beaver-Skins to a treble value- The 

 Governours General of Canada keep in with him, 

 and the Governours of New-England are afraid of 

 him. He has feverai Daughters, who are, all of 



