close my sketch of Mr. Godin:--

"Mon'r Tane,

"Cher Mon'r,

"Vot letre ma té livie par Guiaume dean aisi qui
le butin tout a bon ord le Shauvages on ben travaié
set anne et bon aparans de bon retour st. anne Dieu
merci je ne jami vu tant de moustique et de maragoen
com il en a st anne je pens desend st anne ver le meme
tan com l'anné pasé.

"Je sui,

"Cher Mon'r, &c.

"JOSEPH GODIN."

The Indians attached to this post speak the Sauteux language, and are
denominated "Tetes des Boules" by the French, and "Men of the Woods"
by the other Indians. Although so near to priests and ministers, they
are still Pagans, but are nevertheless a quiet harmless race, and
excellent hunters. The greater part of them originally belonged to
Temiscamingue, and were drawn to this quarter by Mr. Godin. A
considerable number of Algonquins also trade here, where they pass the
greater part of their lives without visiting the Lake. The people
appear to me to differ in no respect from their heathen brethren, save
in the very negligent observance of certain external forms of worship,
and in being more enlightened in the arts of deceiving and lying.