The cock's crow which they heard in the morning and the noise of the dogs, made them think that the masters of these animals were not far off; they recovered the patience which they had lost. But at length the sun began to decline and no person answering

at the profound silence of the Frenchmen.

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neither to the voice of men nor to the cries of animals, they scaled the house to see the condition of

our people in this terrible silence.

Astonishment now gave place to fright and trouble.

They open

the door ; the chiefs enter every where ; ascend the garret ; descend to the cellar ; not a Frenchman

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makes his appearance dead or alive. They regard one another terror seizes them they imagine they have to do with Devils. They saw no batteau, and even if they saw it they could not imagine that our Frenchmen would be so rash as to precipitate themselves into rapids and breakers, among rocks and horrible dangers in which themselves though very expert in passing through Saults and Cascades, often lose their lives. They persuade themselves either that they walked on the waves, or fled through the air or as seemed most probable, that they concealed themselves in the woods. They seek for them nothing appears. They are quasi convinced that they rendered themselves invisible and as they suddenly departed, so will they pounce as suddenly on their village. ;

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