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great diftance from the place, where they encountered 

 with them 5 and that they had offered to conduct 

 the French thither, which offer the commandant 

 had accepted. Time will inform us, whether thefe 

 Indians have been more fincere than many others, 

 who for a long time had been endeavouring to 

 draw the French amongft them, with this bait of 

 their having mines, all which have hitherto proved 

 only imaginary *. 



On the 2 2d, I embarked on board the Bellona, 

 which fet fail on the 30th. On the fecond of 

 July, we reckoned ourfelves north and fouth 

 of Penfacola, from whence we thought it beft 

 to depart ; becaufe the longitude of the mouth 

 of the Miffifiippi is not, as yet, well determined. 

 Since that time till the twentieth, nothing remark- 

 able happened. We had then the fun directly 

 above our heads, and in our voyage from the 

 Martyrs to Biloxi, had laboured under the greateft 

 heats of the folftice, without being able to defend 

 ourfelves againft them in any drape, no more than 

 againlt the dews which fell during the nights in 

 great abundance. Yet, would you believe it, Ma- 

 dam, we fufFered much lefs from the heat in this 

 feafon, than we had done in the month of April, 

 before our fhip-wreck. 



Nothing is, however, more certain, and I then 

 called to mind, that I had been often much fur- 

 prized to fee perfons born within the tropicks com- 

 plaining heavily of the great heats in France. 

 We were in the fame fituation in the month of 

 April, we then experienced the fame heats which 



* This mine has never been heard of fince that time. 



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