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ed to a place of fafety, that It might be ready at a future day when called for.

10. And the heart of Benedi& was lifted xip, and he caft in his mind, how he fhould get pofleffion of the whole province that lay Northward from the hold : (now the inhabi- tants of the land were called Canadians) and he wrote letters to the great Sandhedrim, touching the matter; and the princes of the provinces, even the great Sandhedrim of the people barkened to the voice of Benedid.

11. Now Guy* who was governor of the province, and fervant to the king of Britain, when he heard that the flrong hold was taken by Ethan and Benedid, he thought to have gone againft it and to have gotten pofTeiTion thereof for the king his mafter.

12. But the men of war who were with the governor were few in number, and he effayed to perfuade the Canadians and the barbari- anst of the wildernefs, to fight under the ban-


 * sir Gkw Carleton. f Indians.