against the violence of the Iroquois

At the meeting held the tenth October 1682, composed of M. the Governor, M. the Intendant, M. the Bishop of Quebec, M. Dollier Superior of the Seminary of St. Sulpice at Montreal, the Rev. Fathers Beschefer Superior, D'Ablon and Fremin, Jesuits, M. the Major of the City, Mess rs de Varenne Governor of the Three Rivers, de Brussy, Dalibout, Duguet, Lemoine, Ladurantais, Bizard, Chailly, Vieuxpont, Duluth, de Sorel, .

Derepentigny, Berthier and Boucher. It is proposed by M. the Governor, that from the records

which M. the Count de Frontenac was him

pleased to deposit in his hands of what had passed at Montreal on the 12 Sept. last, between [Vol. I.]

DE LA BARRE'S EXPEDITION TO HUNGRY BAY.

and the Deputy of the Onontague Iroquois, it is easy to infer that these people are inclined to follow the object of their enterprize, which is to destroy all the Nations in alliance with us, the one after the other, whilst they keep us in uncertainty and with folded arms ; so that, after having deprived us of

the entire fur trade which they wish alone to carry on with the English and Dutch established at Manate and Orange, they may attack us isolated, and ruin the Colony in obliging it to contract itself and abandon all the separate settlements, and thus arrest the cultivation of the soil which cannot

bear grain nor be cultivated as meadow except in quarters where it is of good quality.