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
under my specialjprotection.
MEMOIR OF M. DE LA BARRE WHAT HAD OCCURRED AND HAD BEEN DONE REGARDING THE WAR AGAINST THE SENECAS.
AS TO
[Paris Doc. II.]
Having been obliged to leave early in June, in conformity to the resolution adopted by the Intendant, the Bishop, the heads of the country and myself, to wage war against the Senecas for having, in cold blood, pillaged seven latter to the
hundred canoes belonging to Frenchmen
;
arrested and detained the
number of fourteen, as prisoners for nine days, and finally attacked Fort. St. Louis of
the Illinois, where the Chevalier de Bangy gallantly defended himself, and having resolved, at the
same time, to seize Teganeout,one of their chiefs and his twelve companions who had come to ratify the peace made last year, who left their country before they heard of this attack, which circumstance