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and their enemies shall be our friends . These are 
our thoughts, and the words of our hearts; promise 
therefore before that God whom we all adore, to 
convey them to the king of the French, and engage 
that thou wilt be more attached to us than to the 
French nation, and wilt never desert us.” 
The count having promised to communicate their 
sentiments to the French government, they engaged 
to live in good harmony with the establishment. 
A day or two after, several deputed chiefs, with a 
considerable armed force, arrived at the fort. They 
informed the governor that the great day of the oath 
approached, and that the chiefs and people in assem¬ 
bly requested his presence, and had sent a detach¬ 
ment of troops for his safeguard and service. 
In conformity with their desires, he assumed the 
Indian dress, and set out amidst the shouts of the 
natives, followed by the whole of the garrison. On 
his arrival at the camp, which was at a considerable 
distance from the settlement, he was received in due 
form by all the chiefs, and conducted to a tent which 
had been prepared for him. Six domestics and a 
guard of two hundred men were appointed for his 
attendants. 
On the twelfth of October, he was awakened by the 
discharge of cannon; and the chief, Raffangour, with 
six others, dressed in white, came to his tent, from 
whence they conducted him to a plain on which the 
natives, to the number of thirty thousand, were 
assembled. These had formed themselves into an 
