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Dian Manangue & his folk would assist. This was exe¬ 
cuted. They took some beasts in this expedition which 
were divided between the French & the Blacks. Dian 
Manangue having requested some French to escort him 
home, they gave him five, whose throats he cut after 
they were separated from the other French, & falling on 
their rear-guard carry’d off the beasts which they brought. 
This party was commanded by the Sieur de La Bretesche. 
This was not the first treachery which Dian Manangue 
had done to the French, having, a long time since, incited 
& aided at a massacre of many, he caused the massacre of 
Monsieur Estienne, the Missionary Priest, & several other 
French who had gone to his home to catechise & convert 
him. I will not speak more of the Wars which they have 
made with him, because many persons have already written 
of them. 
We learnt again that Ramousset , of whom I have before war with 
spoken, with whom they had been at war, was retir’d to ^anais!^ 
the country of Ramilange , his son-in-law, of whom I have 
also spoken, both of whom had gather’d a good number 
of men & were gone to make War in the Province of the 
Matatannes , with the design of making themselves masters 
of this Province, & that the Matatannes, who believ’d that 
they cou’d not resist, had given way to despair, & were 
retir’d into a country where Ramousset and Ramilange 
ought to pass in canoes. This they had succeeded in 
doing ; and seeing Ramousset and Ramilange pass in their 
canoes, many had thrown themselves into the water, and 
boarding the canoes in which they were, had kill’d them; 
then these two Chiefs being dead, the defeat of their 
Troops had been easy to the Matatannes. 
The Matatannes are not Aborigines of the Island; they’ve 
come there a long time ago, or rather their ancestors, being 
on the sea, had been driven thither by tempest. They are 
from Mecca, where is the Tomb of Mahomet; and not 
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