Relation 
Baytsileau 
is at least 
as powerful 
6 s rick as la 
Hayfouchy. 
When the 
Blacks per¬ 
form the 
Mitave , 
they make 
the same 
gestures & 
postures as 
when they 
fight. 
This V Hay¬ 
fouchy 
breeds Pigs 
& eats 
them, con¬ 
trary to the 
custom of 
people of this 
country. 
5 ° 
[1671 
of the Machicorres , to exemplify the mode of life of those 
Chiefs who possess power. 
The Sieur Desbrosses left Fort Dauphin in the month of 
August 1671, accompany’d by sixty Blacks of his settle¬ 
ment, & took his way towards the Province of the Machi¬ 
corres, to the village of la Hayfouchy, both with the design 
of assuring the continuation of the friendship of the 
French, he having receiv’d orders from MM. de Monde- 
vergues & de Champmargou ; & for trading for horned 
cattle, of which the Chief, la Hayfouchy, had a large num¬ 
ber. He arriv’d in his territory as he was setting forth 
on the march with an Army, to go to war against one 
nam’d Baytsileau, the Chief of another Province neighbour¬ 
ing on that of la Hayfouchy, who having been warn’d of 
the arrival of the Sieur Desbrosses, retrac’d his steps with 
his army & return’d to his home, where he found the Sieur 
Desbrosses, to whom he show’d great kindness, & receiv’d 
him well; he show’d him his army compos’d of more than 
1200 men, whom he paraded in order before Desbrosses, 
& made them perform the Mitave. After which, having 
assur’d la Hayfouchy of the friendship of the French, he 
made reply that he did not fear any person as long as the 
French were his friends, & that also, on his side, he would 
serve them with all that was in his possession. Desbrosses 
stay’d some time at la Hayfouchy’s residence, from whom 
he purchas’d two hundred horned beasts, Oxen & Cows, 
of which he had more than six score thousand, without 
counting other animals, such as sheep, goats & pigs. This 
number of cattle is large to belong to a single man. At 
length Desbrosses, wishing to return home, inform’d la 
Hayfouchy of this, who pray’d Desbrosses to assure 
Messrs, de Mondevergues & de Champmargou of the 
friendship which he had for the French, & that he had 
nothing which was not at their service. He gave to Sieur 
Desbrosses many Oxen as a present, which he meant as 
