However, Monsieur _Cavelier_ the Priest, could not forbear telling them, that if they would do the same by him, he would forgive them his Murder, and only desir’d them to give him a Quarter of an Hour to prepare himself: They answer’d, They had Nothing to say to him; that what they had done was the Effect of Despair, to be reveng’d for the ill Usage they had receiv’d. [Sidenote: _The Author sav’d by a Friend._] I was absent at that Time; he they call’d _Larcheveque_, who, as I have said, was one of the Conspirators, had some Kindness for me, and knowing they design’d to make me away too, if I stood upon my Defence, he parted from them, to give me Notice of their Mischievous Resolution. He found me on a little rising Ground, where I was looking upon our Horses as they graz’d in a little adjacent Bottom. His Intelligence struck me to the Heart, not knowing whether I should fly or stay; but at length, having neither Powder nor Shot, nor Arms, and the said _Larcheveque_ giving me Assurances of my Life, provided I was quiet and said Nothing, I committed my self to God’s Protection, and went to them, without taking any Notice of what had been done. [Sidenote: Duhaut, _the Murderer, usurps the Command_.] _Duhaut_, puff’d up with his new gotten Authority, procur’d him by his Villany, as soon as he saw me, cry’d out, Every Man ought to command in his Turn; to which I made no Answer; and we were all of us oblig’d to stifle our Resentment, that it might not appear, for our Lives depended on it. However, it was easy to judge with what Eyes Father _Anastasius_, Messieurs _Cavelier_ and I beheld these Murderers, to whom we expected every Moment to fall Sacrifices. It is true, we dissembled so well, that they were not very suspicious of us, and that the Temptation we were under of making them away in Revenge for those they had murder’d, would have easily prevail’d and been put in Execution, had not Monsieur _Cavelier_, the Priest, always positively oppos’d it, alledging, that we ought to leave Vengeance to God. [Sidenote: _March continued._] [Sidenote: Cenis _River_.] However the Murderers seiz’d upon all the Effects, without any Opposition, and then we began to talk of proceeding on our Journey. We decamp’d the 21st, with our _Indians_, and march’d with such a heavy Rain, that we were oblig’d to halt on the Bank of a great Stream, where one of the Natives that had left us, arriv’d with his Wife. We went on the 22d and 23d, and pass’d the River, where Father _Anastasius_, Monsieur _Cavelier_ and I, who could not swim, had been drown’d, but that the Natives assisted and sav’d us. The 24th, we went on thro’ a marshy Country, never quitting a small Path which led to the Village of the _Cenis_, till the 28th, when we rested on the Bank of a River of the same Name, tho’ about ten Leagues distant from the Village.