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fomewhat younger ; this perfon is a Chriftian and 

 well inftru&ed, but makes no exercife of his reli- 

 gion. One day as I reproached him for it, he left 

 me abrubtly, went directly to the chapel, and faid 

 his prayers with fo audible a voice, that we could 

 hear him at the mifllonary's. You can fcarce any 

 where meet with a more fenfible man or a better 

 fpeaker ; and,befides he is of a very amiable cha- 

 racter and fmcerely attached to the French. Pire- 

 mon is no lefs fo, and I heard both of them 

 fpeak in a council held at the commandant's 

 where they faid a great many very fine things to 

 us. 



Several Indians of the two nations fettled upon 

 this riy^r, are juft arrived from the Englifli colo- 

 nies, whither they had been to fell their furs, and 

 from whence they have brought back in return a 

 great quantity of fpirituous liquors. The diftribu- 

 tion of it is made in the ufual manner ; that is to 

 fay, a certain number of perfons have daily deliver- 

 ed to each of them a quantity fufficient to get 

 drunk with, fo that the whole has been drank up 

 in eight days. They began to drink in both vil- 

 lages, as foon as the fun was down, and every night 

 the fields echoed with the moft hideous howlings. 

 One would have thought that a gang of devils had 

 broke loofe from hell, or that the two towns had 

 been cutting one another's throats. There were 

 two men maimed, one of whom I met, who had 

 broke his arm with a fall ; I told him he would 

 certainly take care to keep fober another time : he 

 anfwered, that what had happened was nothing at 

 all ; and that he fhould very foon be well again, 

 and would fall to drinking as foon as he could 

 get wherewithal. 



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