in places distant from the settlements, so as to support them in the enemy's country a time sufficiently

long to effectually destroy that Nation, and to act no more by them as had been done seventeen years That we have advantages now which ago, making them partially afraid without weakening them. the French accustomed to the Woods, acquainted with all the roads through them, and the road to Fort Frontenac open to fall in forty hours on the Senecas, the strongest of the five

we had not then

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Iroquois Nations, since they alone can furnish fifteen hundred warriors, well armed ; that there must be provisions at Fort Frontenac, three or four vessels to load them and embark five hundred men

on Lake Ontario, whilst five hundred others would go in Canoes and post themselves on the Seneca shore but this expedition cannot succeed unless by His Majesty's aid with a small body of two or three hundred soldiers to serve as a garrison for Forts Frontenac and La Galette,to escort provisions ;

and keep the head of the country guarded and furnished whilst the interior would be deprived of its good soldiers a hundred or a hundred and fifty hired men, to be distributed among the settlements ;

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6? to help those who will remain at home to cultivate the ground, in order that famine may not get into

the land ; and funds necessary to collect supplies and build two or three barks, without which and that of Sieur de Lasalle, it is impossible to undertake any thing of utility That it is a war which is :