Maquas, to put a stopp to their barbarous Insolencies ; I gave my consent to further the design, that hee might take with liim so many officers and souldiers as he thought fit, either of his Ma ties Companyes, or those of y e Countrey. Whereupon hee advanced within fifteen or twenty leagues of the But fortunately for them his guides conducting him a wrong way, hee did villages of y c Anni6s. not meete with them, till he came neare the village which you name in yo r Letter, neither had he

known there was any of them there, until he had surprized all the Indyans that were in two small Hutts at some distance from that place. This truth is sufficiently convincing, to justify Mons r de Courcelle, that hee had no intention to infringe the Peace, that was then between us, for that hee

thought himself in the Maquas land. the persons under his

The Moderacon which hee used in the said hutts (although

command were driven to the uttermost extremity, for want of Provisions)

hath sufficiently manifested the consideracons wee have always had for our allyes (for until then wee

had no intelligence, that New Holland was under any other Dominion than that of the States of the United Belgick Provinces) and understanding that hee was upon the Lands belonging to the Dutch, hee tooke great care to hinder his companyes from falling into the village, by which means alone the Maquaes that were there saved themselves. Hee also had so much care and authority as to hinder the souldiers from Killing the Poultry, and taking away Provisions that were in the said hutts, to satisfy their hunger. Thus farr, I ought to vindicate the truth upon this subject. The ffrench nation is too much inclined to acknowledge curtesies, not to confess that the Dutch have had very much charity for the ffrench, who have been Prisoners with the Maquaes, and that they have redeemed divers, who had been burnt wi th out their succour They ought also to be assured of our gratitude towards them, and to any others who shall exercise such Christian Deedes, as they ;