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

would oblige me not to treat them ill, but merely to secure their persons, we considered three things First, to endeavour to divide the Iroquois among themselves, and for this purpose, to send persons expressly to communicate my sentiments to the Rev d Jesuit Fathers who are Missionaries there and to request them to act; the second, to send to the Outaouacs to engage our French to come to my assistance by the South, by Lake Erie and to bring as many as they could of the Savages, our alhes and thirdly, to advise Colonel Dongan, Governor of New York of what we were obliged to do, whilst at the same time I would throw a considerable reinforcement of men into Fort Frontenac to secure it. Being arrived at Montreal the tenth of the said month, we sent for Mr. Dollier, Superior of the Seminary of said town and of the Mission to the Indians of the Mountain, and the Reverend Pere Briare, Superior of the Mission of the Sault Saint Louis, who having concurred with