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cntly exprefs'd how welcome they were. We (hall not trou- 

 ble our felves to infert here the Speech and Complements 

 made by Captain Amichon at thisfirft interview : He was one 

 of thofe who had vifited M. Auber in his Ship, fo that he eafi- 

 ly knew him again. He immediately gave him to underftand, 

 that he was come to confirm what they had refolvd together 

 at the Road of Dominico concerning the peace 5 and that all 

 the Caribbians of his Country were defirous of it. The French 

 Governour in anfwer thereto, made them fenfible as well by 

 his Interpreter as his countenance, that for his part he would 

 inviolably obferve that union, provided they were not the 

 firft breakers of it. Having afterwards brought them to his 

 houfe, and knowing that good cheer was the beft feal could 

 be put to that Treaty of peace, he call 'd for fome Aqua-vitae, 

 and order J d to be brought what was moft delicious in the 

 Ifland : At laft he crown'd the Entertainment with Prefents 

 of all the curiofities moft in efteem among the Savages. And 

 that all the Deputies might participate of the good cheer and 

 liberality of the Governour, thofe who had been treated went 

 to relieve thofe who were left behind to look to the Piraga, 

 who alfo in their turn receiv'd the fame treatment and Pre- 

 fents which the others had had. Captain Amichon forgot 

 not, according to the cuftom they obferve towards their 

 friends, to take M. Auber 's name, and to give him his own. 



Having been thus civilly receiv'd and treated, they return'd 

 very joyrully to their Piraga, and fet fail towards their owri 

 Ifland : They met at a certain rendezvouz, which they had 

 agreed upon before they had left Dominico, with the other 

 Piraga, which brought over the other Embaffadour, whole 

 name was Captain Baron, with his retinue. This fecond 

 Captain uriderftanding from the former what reception he 

 and his retiriue had at Cardeloupe, got thither the next day. 

 This Baron had been a great friend of M. du Plejfis, who dy'd 

 Governour of Gardelottpe, but having equal authority with 

 M. de 1' olihe, his Collegue, who after du Plejfis death impru- 

 dently engag'd the French into a War with the Savages. 



This Captain then, who had often vifited M. du Plejfis, and 

 remembred the friendftiip he had born him, being fatisfy'd of 

 the generofity of the French, went aftiore with his Company, 

 and was conduced to the Governour's, who treated him with 

 the fame ceremonies as he had done the former : But when he 

 came to hear that the Captain had been intimately acquainted 

 with M. du Plejfis, and that there had been a familiar corre- 

 fpondence between them, he treated him with greater teftt- 

 monies of afFedtion then he had done the others, and en- 

 terd into a particular friendftiip with him, receiving his 

 name, and giving him his own. Thus was the latter Depu- 

 tation difmifs'd with greater fatisfa&ion then the former, 



