times eats bread, but it is entirely thro' complaisance, for it gives her the heart-burn, as does every thing that is salted. Biscuit and cook'd meat set her a vomiting; and she can endure nothing in which meal is an ingredient: The governor desired to make her eat some fritters, but on that account she would not taste them, She likes Macaroni, and is fond of brandy, calling it burn-stomach, (brule-ventre.) Water is her usual drink, which she sucks out of a pitcher like a cow, sitting on her knees. She will by no means sleep on a mattrass, contenting herself with the bare boards. She swims extremely well, and catches fish in the bottom of rivers. She calls a net debily, in her country dialect. Yas, yas, fioul, signifies in her language, good day, my girl; and when they call'd her, they said, riam, riam, fioul. From her thus explaining French words by those of her own country, it appears, that she begins to understand the meaning of the former.
As for the rest, she seems to be about 18 years old,[1] being of a middling size, and of a
complexion
- ↑ Here there is certainly either an error of the press, or of the copy. The extract of her baptism in June 1732, calls her only eleven years old; and she must then have had a more formed appearance, than a common child of her age, her constitution having been strengthened by the hardy life she
