"The Necessity For Stores Which Should Arrive In Their Camp Partly Hindered The Effects Of That Praiseworthy Resolution, & Obliged The Chief Of The Asenipoetes To Send Back Into His Country 40 Canoes In Which He Embarked 200 Men Of The Most Feeble & Of The Least Resolute.

He kept with him a like number of them more robust, & those who were able to endure fatigue & hunger,

And determined having them to content themselves with certain small fruits, which commenced to ripen, for their subsistence, in order to await the new moon, in which the spirit of the other savages had predicted the arrival of my uncle, which they believed infallible, because their superstitious custom is of giving faith to all which their Manitou predicts. They remained in that state until the end of the first quarter of the moon, during which their oracles had assured them that my uncle would arrive; but the time having expired, they believed their Manitou had deceived them, & it was determined between them to join themselves with us & of separating in 2 bodys, so as to go attack the English & the savages at the south; resolved in case that the enterprise had the success that they expected, of passing the winter with us, to burn the English ships in order to remove the means of defending themselves in the Spring & of effecting their return. That which contributed much to that deliberation was some information which was given to them that the English had formed a design of coming to seek the French to attack them, which they wished to prevent.

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