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appeared by the great number of fick they had in 

 their villages, and to defend them againft their ene- 

 mies. 



I anfwered, that the King was indeed very power- 

 ful, and perhaps more fo than they thought but 

 that his power did not extend over the elements ; 

 and that when difeafes 'or any other fuch accidents laid 

 wafte his provinces, he addrefied himfelf, in order to 

 caufe them ceafe, to the Great Spirit who created the 

 heaven and the earth, and who alone is the fove- 

 reign Lord of nature : that they fhould do the 

 fame, and that they would find themfelves the bet- 

 ter for it ; but that in order to merit being heard, 

 they muft begin with acknowledging him, and with 

 rendering him that worfhip and homage which he 

 has a right to expect from all reafonable creatures : 

 and that they could not do any thing better or 

 more agreeable to the King, than to hearken to the 

 Father whom his Majefty had fent them, and to 

 his inftrucliions ; that he was a man beloved of 

 heaven ; that the manner in which he lived 

 amongft them, could not fail to have caufed them 

 conceive a great efteem for him ; and that his cha- 

 rity towards the fick and all fuch as had any need 

 of his afiiftance, ought to have convinced them of 

 that tender and fincere friend fhip he bore them : 

 laftly, that I would by no means receive it, till 

 after they had promifed to behave themfelves with 

 regard to this mifiionary, in a quite different man- 

 ner from what they had hitherto done, and hence- 

 forth to remove all caufe of complaint againft them, 

 with refpecl to their indocility. 



" As to the protection of the King which you 

 <c demand, and the requeft you have made me to 

 " engage him to undertake your defence againft 



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