Three things obliged me to adopt this resolution the first, because it appeared by letters I had received from Colonel Dongan, in answer to the message by the man named Bourbon, that he was :

very far from the good understanding of which His Majesty had assured me ; but much disposed to interfere as our enemy in this matter.

The second, because I had few provisions, and I did not see

that any effort was made to forward flour to me, with any diligence, from Montreal

;

and the third,

because the wind prevailed so strong from the South east, that my bark did not return from La Galette, and I could not despatch another to Lake Ontario, to notify the army of the South, which

was to arrive forthwith at Niagara, of my arrival at Fort Frontenac with that of the North. I afterwards reviewed all our troops, as annexed, and Sieur le Moine having overtaken me on the same day with the remainder of the Christian Iroquois who had not previously arrived, I despatched

him on the sixteenth to Onnontague and placed in his hands, Tegancourt, the ambassador from the Senecas, whom I had arrested at Quebec.

Seeing the wind always contrary I sent on the preceding day, eight of the largest canoes that I had to the bark at La Galette to bring me ten thousand weight of flour, bread beginning to fail which caused me a good deal of uneasiness and created considerable

murmurs among the troops and the militia. Finally on the 21 st my canoes arrived with what I sent them for. I set to work immediately with all possible diligence to have bread and biscuit baked, and sent off forthwith, the King's troops, D'Orvilliers'