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This account made me reflect on what had paft 

 the evening before ; we had ftopt at the extremity 

 of an ifland to look for buftards on which fome 

 of my guides had fired \ and we heard fomebody 

 cutting wood in the middle of the ifland. The 

 nearnefs of the village of Pimeteouy made us of 

 opinion that this muft be fome of the Illinois, and 

 we were pleafed with this thought ; but there is a 

 ftrong likelihood that thefe were fome Outaga- 

 mies, who having difcovered us, and not daring 

 to attack us, as I had twelve men well armed, had 

 a mind to draw fome of us into the wood, conclud- 

 ing probably they would eafily manage the reft ; 

 but our little curiofity faved us from this misfor- 

 tune, which I mould certainly not have fhunned, if 

 my efcort had not been commanded by a man who 

 had no mind to any idle delays. 



What confirmed us ftill the more in the belief 

 of the four Frenchmen, is that thirty warriors of 

 Pemiteouy, and thefe too commanded by the chief 

 of the village, were in the field, to try to get more 

 certain information of the enemy, and that a few 

 days before their departure, there had been a (harp 

 action in the neighbourhood, in which the two par- 

 ties had taken each one prifoner ; the Outagami 

 had been burnt at the diftance of a mufket-fhot 

 from the village, and was ftill in his fquare. The 

 Canadians who were prefent at his execution, told 

 me it had lafted fix hours, and that this unhappy 

 perfon maintained to his laft breath that he was an 

 Illinois, and had been taken when a child by the 

 Outagamies, who had adopted him. 



He had however fought with extreme valour ; 

 and had it not been for a wound he received in one 



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