The crazy thing is even after the people saved their lives with a cure for scurvy the captain and the others still this trusted the people especially after them seeing their weakness. These people showed the Frenchman nothing but kindness every time they had an encounter, but it was never good enough. It seems the captain intended to take the Donnaconna back to France with them. The captain tried to get Taignoagny and Dom Agaya to help them do this, but it seems they warn the leader not to enter the Frenchmen’s ship. They got the leader to come in the fort at one point but Taignoagny called him out again. The captain ordered his men to take the Donnaconna by force and is great commotion. The Donnaconna and his companions were captured as the author puts it placed into “ safekeeping”. The people cried and screamed for their leaders return and the captain ordered their leader to tell them that after he went and spoke to the King of France he would return to them within ten or twelve moons. Apparently this moved everything over, after giving gifts to the leader’s wife and children they withdrew owing to their lodgings.
The people returned the next day to speak to their leader and the Donnaconna told the captain to tell them he would return in 12 months and that he would bring the leader back his people. It seems that people believed them. Days later several more boats of the people came after speaking to Dom Agaya about the taking of the Donnaconna. Their leader said he was treated well and he returned in 12 moons. Each time people came they brought gifts, were given gifts, is uncertain whether the gifts or the words did the most to mollify them. It was many days later that the ship caring the Frenchman and their “guests” left the shores of Canada on their way back to France.
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