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whom an account has already been given, reassembled among them the squaws of the most importance. They gave me a proof of their friendship in taking me for a chief - dead long before of a malady - rather than for one of those who had been killed in the attack of the French upon a place named La Chine, above Montreal - or who had been taken prisoners - at the Fort of Frontenac and transported to France - whom they counted among the dead.

This captain was called Otasseté which is an ancient name amount the first founders of the Iroquois Nation.

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