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mine, had it not been for five thoufand 

 cattle, which La Cafe found means to con- 

 vey into the fort. All the expeditions of 

 this extraordinary man were attended with 

 the moft complete fuccefs. With thirteen 

 Frenchmen, and two thoufand Androfaces, 

 he defeated Dian Rararas, who was at the 

 head of an army of eighteen thoufand men, 

 and took from him twenty- five thoufand 

 oxen, and five thoufand flaves. The great 

 celebrity of La Cafe made the - council of 

 the company, at length, fee the necefTity of 

 employing and rewarding a man, who had 

 rendered them fuch fignal fervicea, and who 

 was ftill capable of rendering them much 

 greater. 



They, therefore, fent him a lieutenant's 

 commiffion ; made him at the fame time a 

 prefent of a fword ^ and congratulated 

 him on his fuccefs* 



La Cafe charged M. de Rennefort, who 

 A was 



