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their deputies came one day to my little grotto on the part of Monsieur the Commission of Orange, "saying that he regretted my captivity and had much compassion for me, so that he wished effectively to deliver me and to have me taken back to Quebec. That he would give me two savages." Upon which I testified that after the obligations I was under to the Onneidas, I would not leave them. The deputy interrupted these civilities to declare "that the english would not suffer so here," to which I responded that this would be the business of my brothers.