that the Onnontague Iroquois demanded some Frenchmen in sincerity, but with views very different.

The Chiefs finding themselves engaged in heavy wars against a number of nations whom they had provoked, asked for Hurons as reinforcements to their warriors they wished for the French to ob;

tain firearms from them, and to repair those

which might be broken.

Further, as the Mohawks

treated them sometimes very ill when passing through their villages to trade with the Dutch, they

were anxious to rise out of this dependence in opening a trade with the French. This is not all, the fate of arms being fickle, they demanded that our Frenchmen should erect a vast fort in their counand children in case their enemies Here are the views of the Iroquois politicians. The common people did not penetrate so far ahead curiosity to see strangers come from such a distance, the hope of deriving some little profit, created a desire to see them but the Christian Hurons and captives among the people, and those who approved their lives and conversations which they sometimes held regarding our belief, breathed nothing in the world so much as the coming of Preachers of the Gospel who had brought them forth unto Jesus Christ. But so soon as the Captains and Chiefs became masters of their enemies, having crushed all the Nations who had attacked them so soon as they believed that nothing could resist their arms, the recollection of the wrongs they pretended to have formerly experienced from the Hurons the glory of triumphing over Europeans as well as Americans, caused them to take the resolution to revenge themselves on the one and destroy the other so that at the very moment they saw the dreaded Cat Nation subjugated by their arms and by the power of the Senecas, their allies, they would have massacred all the French at Onnontague, were it not that they pretended to make use of them as a decoy to attract some Hurons and to massacre them as they had already done.