to the Coui't of Candtfi 
tillable to regain the camp, and remained in the woods a day 
and a night exposed to all the inclemency of such weather as I 
have described : nor would they in all probability ever have 
been recovered, had not several parties been sent out in dif- 
ferent directions, with orders to fire from time to time, in 
hopes that the stragglers would hear the report of the muS'- 
quets. This had the desired elfcct, and these poor fellows 
were at last brought to the camp, after having undergone the 
terrible apprehension of being doomed to end their days in a 
dreary forest. 
Having procured the Adigar’s leave to make shooting ex- 
cursions, and also people acquainted with the country to con-^ 
duct us, we had an opportunity of seeing several of their vil- 
lages, most of which we found totally deserted by their inha- 
bitants. On the approach of a red coat, the alarm was in- 
stantly given, and the natives, men, women, and children, fled 
directly into the woods. It was not till after some time that 
we could persuade a few of them to remain in their habitations: 
but I never saw any thing in the figure of a woman from the 
time I entered the Candiaii territory to tiie moment of my 
quitting it. AYe found it very difficult to procure hogs, fowls, 
and fruits from the natives, although such articles were in 
great abundance in the country. This not a little surprised 
us, as the king’s officers had expressly issued orders directing 
us to be supplied Avith every sort of necessaries. We Avere 
more disposed to attribute this to the country people them- 
seh^es than to any deceit on the part of the court. The Can- 
dians indeed, particularly the loAA^er orders, shewed little in- 
clination to have any connexion Avith us. Their dread and 
liatred of Europeans, occasioned by the numberless aggressions 
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