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handfomer than thofe of Canada, and are, befides, 



extremely neat in their drefs. 



After -dinner we made a progrefs of five leagues 

 farther, and ftopt at a place called Cannes brulees, 

 or Burnt-cams, belonging to M le Comte d'Ar- 

 tagnar, who has a ftttlement here, which is to 

 ferve him as an entrepot , or ftaple, provided it do 

 not fhare the fame fate with molt of the. reft, 

 This plantation ftands on the left, and the firft 

 objed that attracted my notice, was a large crofs 

 erected on the banks of the river, round which I 

 found them fmging vefpers. This is the firft place 

 of the colony, after leaving the country of the 11* , 

 jinois, where I law this ceremony of our religion. 

 Two Mufquetaires, Meftrs. d'Artiguere and de 

 Benac, are the managers of this grant, and it is 

 M. de Benac who has the direction of the planta- 

 tion of Cannes bruizes^ together with M. Chevalier, 

 nephew to the mathematical mafler to the King's 

 pages. They have no prieft which is not their 

 fault, there having been one fent them, whom they 

 were obliged to fend away for his drunkennefs, 

 wifely concluding, that more harm than good was 

 to be expected from a bad prieft, in a new fettle- 

 ment, where there was no fuperior to watch over 

 his conduct. Between the ColapifTas and the Can- 

 nes brute es, you leave on your right, a place where 

 an Indian nation called the Taenfas were formerly 

 fettled, and who, in the time of M. de la Sale, 

 made a great figure in this colony, but have for 

 fome years paft entirely difappeared. This has one 

 of the moft beautiful fituations as well as one of 

 the beft foils in all Louifiana. M. de Meufe to 

 whom it has been granted has as yet done nothing 

 in it, notwithstanding he maintains a director who 

 has neither goods nor work -men. 



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