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

necessary

:

;

us, furnished seven Christian Iroquois, friendly to the

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French and pretty shrewd, two of whom we

DE LA BARRE'S EXPEDITION TO HUNGRY BAY.

sent with some Belts of

Wampum to the Mohawks, and two to the Oneidas, to say to them that we

were resolved to observe the peace made with them

--that we were very willing

to live there as with

friends, and that we requested them not to interfere in the war which we were about to wage against