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procuring provifions to Fort Dauphin^ 

 *' was not old enough to accompany his £1- 

 ** ther in this expedition ; but he had con** 

 ** ceived fuch an averfion to the Kimosj that 

 ** he fell into a Yiolent pafllon whenever 

 ** I mentioned them in his prefence ; and 

 ** he wiHied me to exterminate that race of 

 *' apes, for fuch was the injurious appeila- 

 *' tion which he always bellowed upon 



them. 



** A chief of the MahafFalleSt a people 

 " refiding near the Bay of St. Auguftine, 

 '* who came from a chief in the neighbour- 

 *' hood of the fort, with a view of exchanging 

 *' filk and other merchandize for oxen, faid, 

 " in the hearing of one of my officers, that 

 " he had been feveral times in the country 

 ** of the Kim OS j and that he had even car- 

 " ried on war again ft them. This chief 

 " added, that for fome years, thefe people 

 ** had been harafled by their neighbours, 

 N *' who 



