^78 A VOYAGE TO Book IX. 



game in the neighbaurhood ; for this being their 

 only fubfiftence, whenever it begins to grow fcarce, 

 they remove, and the affedionate prieft follows 

 them wherever they go. Many of them come vo- 

 luntarily to the French fettlcments, hiring them- 

 felves for hufbandry or any other laborious work, and 

 at the expiration of the time agreed on, return to their 

 countrymen. Others repair to the French fettlements 

 in order to difpofe of the fkins of the beafts they have 

 killed, and furniflb themfelves with the neceffaries they 

 want. Thus the French live in an entire fociality and 

 repofe with them, little apprehenfive of any infurrec- 

 tion, or their inclination to any other government, as 

 their own takes care to recommend itfelf to them by 

 the moft ingratiating meafures ; and the Indians as lit- 

 tle harbour any fufpicions of a defign in the French to 

 ered a tyranny over them, or of making any infringe- 

 ments on that liberty of which they are fo fond, or on 

 that indolence to which they are fo remarkably addic- 

 ted, that want alone can roufe them to a6lion. 



When the favages have built their huts, their firft 

 bufinefs is to fcour the country, and thus they continue 

 hunting three or four days fuccefllvely, or till they 

 judge they have a fufficiency to ferve them fome time ; 

 when they return to their huts, where they never fail 

 of carrying to the prieft the full amount of his quota. 

 The fkins of quadrupeds they referve for fale, having 

 firft made the due offering to the prieft, who, on the 

 produce of them, fupplies his own neceflities, and like- 

 wife furnifhes the chapel ; but its ornaments, like the 

 veftments of the prieft, are neither remarkable for their 

 number or fplendor-, their ambulatory life, among 

 other circunlftances, fcarce admitting of cither. 



Besides Louift)ourg, the only fortified harbour of 

 this iftand, it has other places of good anchorage, 

 on the eaftern coaft, which terminates at Cape Norde ^ 

 and on that running fouthward from E. to W. Of 

 thefe, the beft for fccurity and iargenefs are St, Anne'§ 



bay, 



