To prevent as much as I can all the inconveniencyes that may happen. I have sent the bearer with this letter and have ordered the Coates of Armes of His Royal Highnesse the Duke of York to be put up in the Indyan Castles which may diswade you from acting anything that may create a misunderstanding between us Sir

am with all respect Most humble & affectionate Servant

Tho Dongan

(Signed)

M.

DE LA BARRE TO GOV. DONGAN. [

Paris Doc. II.

;

Lond. Doc. V. ]

Camp at Lachine, 24 July 1684. Sir

-- was much astonished by the receipt of your two

letters of the fifth of July,

New Stile,

seeing one in French written by you, which I knew came from you as from friend to friend, and that

written in English which I knew came from your Council and not from people disposed to maintain the union of our two Kings.

you to advise you of the vengeance which I was about to wreak for the insult inflicted on the Christian name by the Senecas and Cayugas,and you answer me about pretensions to the possessions of lands of which neither you nor I are judges, but our two Kings who have I sent Sieur Bourbon to

sent us, and of which there is no question at present, having no thought of conquering countries but of making the Christian name and the French people to be respected, in which I will spill the last drop of

my blood