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La Motte-Cadillac writes bitterly on the subject, and contrasts the conduct of the French priests with that of the English ministers, who have taught many Indians to read and write, and reward them for teaching others in turn, which they do, he says, with great success. Memoire contenant une Description detaillee de l'Acadie, etc., 1693.
Missionaries to be encouraged in their Efforts to make the Indians attack the English. "Les sauvages.... se distinguent, depuis la paix, dans les mouvements qu'il y a du côté de l'Acadie, et sur lesquels Sa Majesté juge
It does much injury to cocoa-nut trees, by biting off the top shoots, or tearing down the fruit. Captain Phipps' Voyage to the North Pole. L'Acadie. Ruxton. Badgers belong to the same division of Carnivora as Bears, but differ from them, not only in size, but in dentition. This, while they claim a sort of miniature relationship, forms them into a separate genus.
As Old France and Old England struggle for the supremacy in the old world, so New France and New England struggle for the supremacy in the new world, and the bone of contention is this very district alluded to, this border-ground, called by the French L'Acadie, but claimed by the English as Nova Scotia, which bordered both on New England and New France.
Lawrence at Lachine, and from Caughnawaga, to march to the Pointe Claire, Rivière-du-Chène, Vaudreuil, and Longue Pointe. Battalions upon L'Acadie, and volunteers from the foot battalions, with the flank companies of the second and third battalions of the Montreal militia, and a troop of militia dragoons, crossed to Longueil and to Laprairie.
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