We are willing to acknowledge Him of whom thou hast spoken, who is the master of our lives,

who is unknown to us. 2.

Our council tree is this day planted at Onnontaga

--meaning that that would

be, henceforth, the

place of their meetings and of their negotiations for peace. 2.

We conjure you to select on the banks of our great lake an advantageous site for a French

settlement.

Fix yourself in the heart of the country, since you ought to possess our hearts.

There

we shall go for instruction, and from that point you will be able to spread yourself abroad in every Be unto us careful as fathers and we shall be unto you submissive as children. direction. Onnontio encourages us. We shall entertain no other thought 4. We are engaged in new wars ;

towards him than those of peace.

They reserved their richest presents for these last four words

;

but I can assure you their counmuch mildness that my What appeared to me most endearing in all this was that all our Huron Christians and the captive women, lighted this fire which melts the hearts of the Iroquois. They told them so much tenances told more than their tongues, and expressed joy mingled with so

heart was full.

good of us, and spoke so often of the great value of the Faith, that they prize it without being acand they love us in the hope that we shall be for them what we have been for the