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IV.—How the Indians tried to frighten Cartier.

The next day, being the 18th of September, these men still endeavored themselves to seek all means possible to hinder and let our going to Hochelaga, and devised a pretty guile,1 as hereafter shall be showed.

Indians Trying to Frighten Cartier.

They went and dressed three men like devils, wrapped in dogs' skins, white and black, their faces besmeared as black as any coals, with horns on their heads more than a yard long, and caused them secretly to be put in one of their boats, but came not near our ships, as

1 An ingenious trick.

Boston, 1877. Lee and Shephard.

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