had detained Taganeout there Ambassadour, or made warr against them, that I might have used all just methods to prevent a warr that may be destructive to either party-- That the Governor of Canida does very well in believing what truly he ought that I will not there was a interest myselfe in any manner to countenance such villanyes and if I did not think them against joyne to be willing would middle way to compose that difference myselfe, I no share in that warr, I am glad you asured me that the neighbourghing Indians to Albany have but I am sorry the troops are in soe great forwardness, that if my former advice had bin taken, there before he

had been no absolute necessity to attaque the Indians or loose the campaigne. That it is very true, I ought to have a good correspondence with the Sieur de la Barr, and it is not nor ever shall be my fault if I have not, and I againe must tell you that I have no thought or inchnation to protect any villany whatsoever.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER ADDRESSED BY LOUIS XIV. TO MONSIEUR DE LA BARRE, THE 21st

JULY, 1684.

[Paris Doc. II.]

Monsieur De la barre th June last, the resolution you have taken to attack the IroI have seen by your letters of the 5 to it, and though it is a grave misfortune for the Colony of moved you which reasons quois, and the

New France which will interrupt the trade of my subjects and divert them from the cultivation of the land and expose them to frequent insults on the part of the Iroquois Savages, who can frequently surprize them in distant settlements, without your being even in a state to succor