space of many acres[.] I was conducted on my arrival by a Chief to his own Tent[.] This Chief was kind to me – I was recommended to him in a particular manner, it seems, by my resputed father the Borgne[.] [A]fter giving me to eat of the best that could be procured – he desired such of his friends as had Furs to bring them, and in a moment my little stock of goods was gone in exchange to my perfect satisfaction[.] I now paid a visit to my countryman Mons^r Jessaume[.] This Old gentleman was in bad humour[.] He had exposed his great pipe – Which he found had lost all its virtues – since nothing was upon it[.] The Invocation of the proeceeding Evening by the Indian had no effect – or rather as it was meant a bad effect[.] "Your friend, the Chief he said, has harangued all the Trade of the Place into his Tent to my prejudice[.]"

Our party consented to remain six days. The Indians were studious to please us and the time was passed very agreeably[.] By a hunting party (to which I was Eye witness) no less than two hundred and fifty Buffaloes were killed and left to rot on the field within a few acres of the Camp[.] The tongues however were extracted and carried home[.] At the expiration of the appointed period we took our departure[.] Several Shayans accompanied

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