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x The Txhicachas, or Chickfaws, only punift
adultery with whipping the two • offenders who
have been caught in the fad, making them run
naked through the village ; after which the huf-
band repudiates his wife.
As thefe Indians gave fhelter to the Natches,
after the maffacre of the French, the latter armed
in 1736 againft, and attacked them, with
the united forces of the whole.colony, but with-
out fuccefs.
M. d'Artaguette major and governor for the
king, in the country of the Illinois, came to join
M. de Bienville the governor of Louifiana ; he
brought him the troops of the Illinois, and from
the frontiers of Canada, but the army which
that officer commanded, was furprifed and de-
feated, becaufe he had been abandoned by the
Indians, who were our allies. M. d'Artaguette
was taken, with feven officers, and about twenty-
fix foldiers and inhabitants, by the Chickfaws,
who burnt them alive ; among them was the
Father Sénat a Jefuit, who went with M. d'Ar-
taguette in the quality of chaplain. The detail
of this tragic feene has been related by a ferjeant,
called Louis Gamot, who was a foedator of the
fad fate which his companions underwent ; he
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