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Arrived among the sauvages, for so the Canadian habitant invariably calls his Indian brother, who is often as like him as one pea is like another, you will there see the little old Huron church decked out in humble imitation of its younger, but bigger brothers in the city.

[Footnote 504: État de l'Armée Française devant le Fort George, autrement Guillaume-Henri, le 3 Août, 1757. Tableau des Sauvages qui se trouvent

Their religious ideas interested him much, and also their statements regarding the interior of the continent. Such data as he could collect between the end of May and the middle of August he embodied in a book called Des Sauvages, which, true to its title, deals chiefly with Indian life and is a valuable record, although in many regards superseded by the more detailed writings of the Jesuits.

"Des sauvages! des sauvages!" exclaimed Delorier, looking round with a frightened face, and pointing with his whip toward the foot of the mountains. In fact, we could see at a distance a number of little black specks, like horsemen in rapid motion.

They do not even wear civilized clothes, and their ways are not the ways of les bons sauvages. They have no priests; they do not come to the coast; and the Montagnais will not mingle with them. Thus it bespoke the hunger of Nichicun that he was willing to go into their country.

On y trouxe également une grande quantité de chevaux sauvages

The number of the French, after they had all reached the field, was, in truth, about seven thousand; at the beginning of the fight it seems not to have exceeded five thousand. The Relation de la seconde Bataille de Quebec says: "Notre petite armée consistoit au moment de l'action en 3,000 hommes de troupes reglées et 2,000 Canadiens ou sauvages."

'Messieurs les sauvages Ecossois dat is gentilmans savages, have the goodness d'arranger vous. The clan, comprehending the order more from the gesture than the words, and seeing the Prince himself present, hastened to dress their ranks. 'Ah! ver well! dat is fort bien! said the Count de Beaujeu. 'Gentilmans sauvages mais tres bien Eh bien! 'Ah, oui! FACE Je vous remercie, Monsieur.

Although Sauvages at the end of the last century was the first to give an accurate description of this disease, many physicians had observed it before. Frambesia or yaws was observed in Brazil as early as 1643, and in America later by Lebat in 1722. In the last century Winterbottom and Hume describe yaws in Africa, Hume calling it the African distemper.

"En partant de Canada, j'ay laisse une tres grande disposition a attirer au Christianisme la plus grande partie des sauvages Abenakis qui abitent les bois du voisinage de Baston. Pour cela il faut les attirer a la mission nouvellement etablie pres Quebec sous le nom de S. Francois de Sale. Je l'ai vue en peu de temps au nombre de six cents ames venues du voisinage de Baston.