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fiderable poft, and a great many would make gravel-walks at their own charge, but as
long as-the governors prey upon the fortunes of private men under the fair pretence of
the King's fervice, which is always in their mouths, I cannot fee that this fettlement
will ever be enlarged or improved. Does not the governor difgrace his Prince, and
fink the character of his poft, in turning fifherman, merchant, vintner, and acting in the
way of a thoufand meaner and more mechanical trades ? Is not this a piece of tyranny ?
To force the inhabitants to buy what goods they want out of fuch and fuch a fhip, and
to fell their cod to fuch other fhips as the governor is interefted in, and that as a princi-
pal owner ; to appropriate to himfeif the rigging and tackle of the fhips that are eaft
away upon the coaft, to flop the crew of merchantmen for his own fifhery, to fell
habitations or fettlements, to ftifle the bidding up for effects fold by way of auction that
he may ingrofs them by his fole authority, to change the provifions laid up in magazines
for his Majefty's troops, to carry off the good bifcuit and put bad in the room of it,
to make fo much beef and bacon for the fubfiftence of the garrifon, to force the inha-
bitants to fend their fervants and carpenters to fome work in which his Majefty's
fervice is lefs concerned than his own pocket : thefe, I fay, are things that I take to be
plain infractions of the orders iffued forth ,by Lewis the XIV. ; thefe are abufes that
muft be redreffed, if we would have the King to be well ferved : and yet there is nothing
done in it. For my part, I am unacquainted with the reafon of the delay ; thofe that
have a mind to know had beft afk the deputies of Monfieur de P ***. I am fully per-
fuaded, that all thefe piracies do not come to the King's ears, for he is too juft to fuffer
them.
To conclude, Placentia bearsneither corn, nor rye, nor peafe, for the foil is good for
nothing ; not to mention, that if it were as good and as fertile as any in Canada, yet
nobody would give themfelves the trouble to cultivate it ; for one man earns more in
cod-fifhing in one fummer than ten would do in the way of agriculture. In the great
bay of Placentia there are fome little harbours, (befides that of the fort) which the
Bifcay fifhermen refort to. Such are the little and the great Burin, St. Laurence,
Martir, Chapeau Rouge, &c.
The Abenakis.
The Micmac.
The Canibas.
The Mahingans.
The Openangos.
The Soccokis.
The Etechemins.
A Lift of the Savage Nations of Canada.
Thofe in Acadia.
Thefe are all of them good warriors : they are more active and
•    lefs cruel than the Iroquefe.    Their language differs a little
from that of the Algonkins.
The Nations that lie upon the River of St. Laurence, from the Sea to MonreaL
The Papinachois.    ^
The Mountaneers.   > Thefe fpeak the Algonkin language.
The Gafpefians.      j
The Hurons of Loreto, the Iroquefe tongue.
The Abenakis of Scilleri. ? Tne Algonkin language.
The Algonkins.   '        3                                                                      The