Twelfth Day, Wednesday 28th.-Our travellers having nearly reached the end of their career, marched towards Prals, and being arrived at the top of La Couline, they formed two troops, one of which proceeded by Rodoret, the other by Fontaines; that is to say, one took the mountain road, the other that which led through the valley, in order to discover whether there were any soldiers to oppose them; but they met only some Savoyards, on whom they laid violent hands. Having learnt that the Marquis de Parelle, (the lieut. general commanding the Ducal troops, appointed to guard the Col de Lapier,) was at Perrier, the detachment which went by Rodoret joined the other at Prals, where they burnt a chapel, which had been built only three years, and having had the pleasure of finding the temple in the hamlet of Guigou, which was the church of Prals, standing, they stripped it of all that appertained to the worship of Rome, and then sung in it the 74th Psalm, "Oh God, wherefore art thou absent," . . &c. Monsieur Arnaud to make himself heard by those also who were outside, got upon a bench in the doorway, and the 129th Psalm, " Many a time have they fought against me," being sung, he preached on both these psalms. It is here worthy of remark, that God permitted that the first service heard by the Vaudois, on their return to their valleys,

should be performed in that temple, of which Mons. Leidet was minister, who for singing psalms under a rock, and preaching publicly the true faith, lost his life on a gibbet, by order of the court, in the fort of St. Michel, near Luzerne, in the year 1686.

Thirteenth Day, August 29th.-Mons. Arnaud having made public prayers, they prepared to pass the Col de Julien, in order to descend into the valley of Luzerne, when meeting with a horse near la Ferrouillarie, they guessed that the enemy were not far off, and soon after saw a serjeant of H. R. H.'s guards, with a peasant for a guide; they were taken, and the guide put to death. The serjeant to avoid the same fate, promised to discover all he knew, and said he had been sent into the valley of St. Martin, to reconnoitre the state of the Vaudois; that there were 200 of his Majesty's guards waiting for them, well entrenched on the Col de Julien; and that a regiment of guards had been sent for, seventeen days before, from Nice, to come to the defence of the valleys, which was three days before the Vaudois set out. Upon this information, they divided as usual into three bodies, one taking the right, the other the left, and the third, which was the principal, the centre. The right division having reached a wood above, were preparing to halt, but finding them

selves discovered by a sentinel of the enemy, they lost no time in taking up a position before the Savoyard troops could have time to occupy it; these came up with the intention of disputing the post, but as soon as they perceived the Vaudois had been too quick for them, they retired under favour of some heavy clouds, crying out, "Venez, venez, Barbets du Diable,* we have seized all the posts, and are 3000 strong;' adding by way of gasconade, "let Mons. le Chevalier be told to take care of his posts." And as the Vaudois approached, the sentinel kept calling out, "qui vive, if you do not answer, I fire;" but not one shot was fired, so afraid were they of the Vaudois, who in their eagerness to come to an engagement, determined to attack these boasters even in their entrenchments, where they, thought themselves SO secure. As soon as they saw themselves attacked in good earnest, and on all sides, after firing for half an hour, they disgracefully abandoned their posts; leaving behind them baggage, and ammunition, and even the clothes of their commander, in the hands of the Vaudois: who on their part lost only one man, named Joshié Mandom, a good soldier, who died of his wounds, at les Pausettes, the next day, and was buried under a rock. The fugitives retreated in such haste to the convent

* Barbets, a name of reproach given the Vaudois.