Which My Chief Having Also Learned, He
Told Me That He Wished No More To Be Security With His Word With A Nation
Who Had None Of It; Which Obliged Us To Remain At Home, Keeping Up A Very
Strict Guard.
At the same time the river Hayes having become free, several
detachments of the nations who were our allies arrived to assist us.
The
Asenipoetes [Footnote: Asenipoetes, Assinipoueles, Assenipoulacs, and,
according to Dr. O'Callaghan, Assiniboins, or "Sioux of the Rocks."]
alone made more than 400 men. They were the descendants of the great
Christionaux of the old acquaintance of my uncle, & all ready to make war
with the English; but I did not find it desirable to interest them in it
directly nor indirectly, because I did not wish to be held on the defensive
in awaiting the return of my father or of my uncle, & that besides I knew
that several other nations who loved the French, more particularly those
who would come to our relief at the least signal. In the mean time the
chief of the Asenipoetes did not wish us to leave his camp around our
house, resolved to await up to the last moment the return of my uncle, of
whom he always spoke, making himself break forth with the joy that he would
have in seeing him by a thousand postures; & he often repeated that he
wished to make it appear that he had been worthy of the presents that the
Governor of Canada had made to him formerly in giving tokens of his zeal to
serve the French.
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