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with fo little ceremony by thefe people ; and 

 this lelToii feemed to hurt him the more; as 

 it was given before officers honoured with 

 the conhdence of the Eaft-India Company. 



M. Poivre, on the contrar)% beheld the 

 'cnergy of thefe favages with pleafure. He 

 was ft ruck with the force and folidity of 

 their reafoning; but, being intruded with 

 the interefts of the company, it was not in 

 his power to make any alteration In the 

 ufual price of provifions. He ordered Bi- 

 gorne to communicate this to the aflTembly ; 

 and to affure them, ai the fame time, that 

 the merchants of Foulepointe would be im- 

 mediately and generoufly paid for all the 

 commodities with which they had fupplied 

 the French. He hkewife granted an aug- 

 mentation of falary to thofe domeftics who 

 were in the fervice of the whites ; and ac- 

 companied all his promifes with the moft 

 polite expreflions, and fuch as were -likely 

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