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ges, yet did hq conceive it expedient, for fear of a furprize, 

 that the Inhabitants fhould ftill keep their Guards : Accord- 

 ingly he planted Sentinels in all thofe places where the Ca- 

 rihbians might moft eafily land without being difcover'd : 

 He chang'd the Guards, and placed them in other more ad- 

 vantagious places 5 and he thought it prudence to keep under 

 thofe who would have ruin'd the firft foundations he had laid 

 of the firm peace and alliance with thofe reconciled enemies, 

 charging the former by exprefs prohibitions to forbear all adfc 

 of hoftility, that they might not by their particular animofi- 

 ties obftruft the general agreement wherein all the Inhabitants 

 were fo much concern'd. 



The faid Governour taking further into his cohfideration, 

 that the Wands were to fubfift by Trading 5 that nothing puts 

 a greater flurre upon them then the bad Commodities vented 

 therein and that Tobacco was the only Commodity at that 

 time of any efteem at Gardeloupe ; and that feveral perfbns 

 put off what was not merchantable, which procedure had 

 caus'd the Ifland to be flighted by Forreigners, who upon 

 that account had Forborn fending any Ships thither 5 he ap* 

 pointed certain perfons who well underftood the management 

 of Tobacco, and thefe carefully examin'd the making up of 

 it, and had order to caft into the Sea what was decay'd, or 

 wanted thofe qualities it ought to have to be allowable. 



This good order taken, as well in order to military affairs 

 as policy, brought the Ifland in a (hort time into a flourifhing 

 condition 5 and the report of its amendment occafion d the 

 coming thitner of many Merchants, and invited a great num- 

 ber of confiderable families to fetle themfelves there. 



But to return to the Savages who had vifited M. Akber in 

 his Ship at his firft arrival, and had treated with him about a 

 peace, upon the conditions before-mentioned 5 they were no 

 fboner got home into their Country, where they were expect- 

 ed with much impatience, upon this fcore, that they had con- 

 tinu'd a great while in the Ship, but they celebrated all over 

 the Ifland the noble entertainment they had receiv'd from the 

 Governour newly come from France. The confiderable Pre- 

 fents he had beftow'd on them was an authentick affurance of 

 his goodncfs and liberality. To this they added, that their 

 enemies, /' Olive and SaboniUy, being ordered to depart Garde- 

 loupe, they had made a peace with that brave Companion, who 

 had treated themfo kindly, that he was worthy of their alli- 

 ance. That he might take no further occafion of diftruft, 

 they urg'd the necefiity there was that they fhould forbear 

 making thofe incurfions into Gardeloupe which they had been 

 wont to make in the time of War : And that when certain 

 news came that the new Governour was fully eftablifh'd in his 

 Government, they would give him a vifit, carry "him Prefents, 



