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Rh became acquainted with Le Blanc, about two years after her capture, it was reported in the country, that the other girl had been found dead at the distance of some leagues from the place where they had fought. Madamoiselle Le Blanc tells, that she heard of her having been found (she does not say whether dead or alive) near Toul in Lorrain. In that case she must, dangerously wounded as she was, have reswam the Marne, which is equally improbable with what Mademoiselle Le Blanc further tells she heard of some papers having been found upon that girl, who was bigger and older than she, which could throw light upon their preceding adventures. The letter formerly mentioned, which was wrote recently after the thing happened, only says, that the little Negro girl had been again seen near Cheppe, a village in the neighbourhood of Songi, but had not afterwards appeared. Whatever may have been the case, she was never more talk'd of.

is much greater uncertainty still as to what happened to these two children, previous to their arriving in Champagne; Le Blanc's memory, on that head, being indistinct and confused. I shall relate, however, every particular I have been able to draw from her in the several different conversations we have had