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

I have great esteem for your person, and considerable desire to preserve the honor of his Brittannick Majesty's good graces as well as those of my Lord the Duke of York, and I even believe that they will greatly appreciate my chastisement of those who insult you and capture you every day as they have done this winter in Merilande. But if I was so unfortunate as that you desired to protect robbers, assassins and traitors, I could not distinguish their protector from themselves.

I pray you,

which I give Sieur de Salvaye to explain everything to you and, wish your services as their intecessor to take security from them, not in Cayugas if the Senecas and the Indian but in the European fashion, without which and the honor of hearing from you, I shall attack them towards the 20 th of the month of August, New Stile. then, to attach faith to the credit