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they arrive at the village, and efpecially, if £h(ty 

 have any grounds to fear their being refcued. Some 

 time ago, a Frenchman having been taken by the 

 Outagamies, thefe barbarians held a council on their 

 march to determine what they mould do with hiiru 

 The refult of their deliberation was to throw a flick 

 upon a tree, and if it remained there to burn the 

 prifoner, but not to throw it above a certain num- 

 ber of times. Happily for the captive, the ftick 

 fell always to the ground, though the tree was ex- 

 tremely bufhy. 



I remained twenty-four hours at the rock, and 

 to oblige the favages, and to teftify an entire con- 

 fidence in them, though all my guides encamped on 

 the other fide of the river, I lay in a cabbin in the 

 middle of the village. I paifed the night quietly 

 enough, but was very early awaked by a woman 

 that dwelt in the neighbouring cabbin on her awa- 

 kening, me happened to call to mind the remem- 

 brance of a ion (he had loft fome years before, and 

 fhe immediately fell a weeping or ringing in a very 

 mournful tone. 



The Illinois have the character of bold and dex- 

 terous thieves, which is the reafon why I caufed 

 tranfport all the baggage to the other fide of the 

 river ; but in fpite of this precaution, and the watch- 

 ful nefs of my people, when we came [to fet out we 

 found a mufquet and fome other trifles wanting, 

 which we could never afterwards, by any means re- 

 cover. The fame evening we pafled the laft part 

 of the river, where you are obliged to carry your 

 canoe ; from this place forwards, it is every where, 

 both in breadth and deepnefs equal to moft great 

 rivers in Europe. 



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