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with provissions from Quebeect Viz meal flower meat and biskett and liquor & the french officers, seemed exceeding cut word to make all possible dispatch, and cut word the Indians would be as expeditions as possible in finishing their connew and all their utensiels that was necesserey for our voyage, I was pretty much dissatisffied and impatient to hear the truth of the news concerning our forcess at Luisbourg, and endeavoured by all cut word possible? means to inform my self of it. there was a man in the armey that belonged to Luisbourg an officer, him I observed in perticuler above any of the rest in expectation that as he was an inhabitant then he would be touched more sensibly then any of the others, either with sorrow or joy, according as the news in reality was and seeing this man walking with another officer and talking verey seriously and with a great deal of concern I had a great desire to know the substance of