which you committed in not punctually executing my orders relative to the number of twenty-five licenses to be granted to my subjects, and the great number you have sent on all sides, in order to favor persons belonging to yourself, appears to me to have been the principal cause of what has happened on the part of the Iroquois. I hope you will repair this fault by giving a prompt and glorious

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termination to this war.

It appears to

me also that one of the principal causes of the war arises from one Du Lhut having

caused two Iroquois to be killed who had assassinated two Frenchmen in Lake Superior, and you sufficiently see how much this man's voyage, which cannot produce any advantage to the Colony, and

which was permitted only in the interest of some private persons, has contributed to disturb the repose of the Colony.

As it concerns the good of my service to diminish as much as possible the number of the Iroquois, and as these Savages who are stout and robust, will, moreover, serve with advantage in my galleys, I wish you to do every thing in your power to make a great number of them prisoners of war, and

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that you have them shipped by every opportunity which will offer for their removal to France. I desire likewise that you leave Fort Frontenac in the possession of Sieur de la Salle or those who

are there for him, and that

you do nothing in opposition to the interest of that man whom I take