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

;

Sir

Your very humble Servant Le Febure de la Barre.

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Par. Doc. II. ;

Lond. Doc. V. ]

INSTRUCTIONS WHICH SIEUR DE LA BARRE KING'S COUNCILLOR IN HIS COUNCILS, GOVERNOR & HIS LIEUTENANTG ENERAL IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF NEW FRANCE AND ACADIA, GIVES TO SIEUR DE SALVAYE HIS AMBASSADOR TO COLONEL DONGAN, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, TO EXPLAIN TO HIM THE UNFAITHFULNESS AND VIOLENCES COMMITTED BY THE SENECAS AND CAYUGAS AGAINST THE FRENCH.

He is, in the first place, to make known to him the quarter where the pillage of the seven canoes was perpetrated, and that it is more than 400 leagues distant from here and an equal distance, at least, Southwest from Albany, in the 39 th or 40 th degree. That the place has been occupied over 25 years by the French who there established Catholic Missions of the Jesuit Fathers, and traded there (on fait la traitte) since that time, without the English having ever known, or spoken of, that country. That the question is not about the country of the Iroquois, nor the Eastern shores of Lake Erie. That the Iroquois having lived, previous to the arrival of M. de la Barre, with little consideration for the French, he was desirous to speak with them, to see if they were friends or foes, and for that purpose they were all assembled at Montreal last August where every thing was arranged on a friendly basis even the Senecas and Cayugas had demanded the said Sieur de la Barre to withdraw Sieur de la Salle from the government of Fort St.