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any other security than small bits of paper, which 
contained, as they assured us, a promise of being paid 
in three moons. Why has this solemn promise 
remained to the present day unfulfilled? This is 
compelling us to give up all commerce with the 
whites, or at least entirely to withdraw that confi¬ 
dence which we formerly had in their words and 
oaths. 
“ A large vessel, which touched here last year, was 
in the most urgent want of provisions, without having 
effects to purchase them. The merchants of Foule 
Point, however, supplied their crew with oxen and 
rice, and at the same price at which they could have 
bought them for ready money. 
“ They promised to send us payment by the first 
vessel which should come from the Isle of France.— 
Since that period twelve have arrived; but they all 
refused to discharge this just debt. 
“ Wilt thou now say, O Bigorne ! that the people 
of Foule Point have behaved dishonestly towards the 
French ? 
“ Wilt thou say, also, that in giving a trade-musket 
in exchange for an ox, thou payest too dear for it? 
“ Wilt thou say, that two yards of blue cloth is a 
just value of a measure of rice, weighing fifty pounds? 
Thou either thinkest us very ignorant of the price of 
provisions at the Isle of France, or thou hast formed 
the mad project of giving laws to us, instead of 
receiving them from us. 
“.Is it not true,” continued the orator, addressing 
