The next and the following Days, I continu’d trading, and the Elders their Visits, and their Discourse by Signs, concerning their intended War. Some of them gave me to understand, that they had been among the _Spaniards_, who are nevertheless about two hundred Leagues from them. They spoke some Words of broken _Spanish_, as _Capita_, instead of _Capitan_, a Captain, and _Cohavillo_ instead of _Cavallo_, a Horse, and so of some others. _Ruter_, the _French_ Man return’d to his Dwelling, I gave him some Strings of Beads for his Wives, and desir’d him to send the other _French_ Man to me. [Sidenote: _Indian Maid brought to the Author._] In the mean Time my being alone, as to any Person I could converse with, grew very irksome to me, and I know not whether an old Man did not perceive it; for he thought it would be proper to bring a Companion, to divert me, and at Night I was surpris’d to see a young Maid come sit down by me, and to hear the old Man tell me, he had brought her to be my Wife, and gave her to me; but I had far different Thoughts to disturb me. I spoke not one Word to that poor Maid; she stay’d some Time expecting I would take notice of her, and perceiving I did not stir, or speak one Word, she withdrew. [Sidenote: French _Men like_ Indians.] Thus I continu’d, without hearing any News, till the Sixth of _April_, when the two _French_ Men, I have spoken of, came both, in the _Indian_ Dress, each of them having only a Clout about him, some Turky Feathers on their Shoulders, their Heads and Feet bare. The latter of them whose name was _Grollet_, had not consented to have his Face mark’d like the other, nor to cut his Hair after the _Indian_ Manner; for those People cut off all theirs, except a small Lock on the Crown of the Head, like the Turks, only some of them have small Tresses on the Temples. I repeated to them the Narrative of Monsieur _de la Sale_’s unfortunate Story. They confirm’d what I had been told before, that the Natives had talk’d to them of the great River, which was forty Leagues off, towards the N. E. and that there were People like us, that dwelt on the Banks of it. This confirm’d me in the Opinion, that it was the River so much sought after, and that we must go that Way to return to _Canada_ or towards _New England_. They told me, they would willingly go with us. I desired them to keep it secret, which they did not, for being inform’d that Monsieur _Cavelier_ and the others were coming, they went to meet them, and I was again left alone. [Sidenote: _The Murderers resolve to return to the Habition of_ St. Lewis.]