one hundred and fifty men were attacked by it ; I had also left some of them at the fort, which caused
me to despatch, on arriving, a Christian savage to Onontague to M. Lemoine, to request him to cause the instant departure of those who were to come to meet me, which he did with so much diligence though he and
his children were sick, that
he arrived as early as the third of September with fourteen Deputies ; nine from Onontague, three from Oneida and two Cayugas, who paid me their respects
and whom I entertained the best manner I was able, postponing until the morrow morning the talk about business, at which matters were fully discussed and peace concluded after six hours deliberation, three in the morning and as many after dinner, Father Brias speaking for us and Hotrehonati and Garagonkier for the Iroquois
;
Tegancout, a Seneca present, the other Senecas not daring to come
in order not to displease Col. Dongan, who sent to promise them a reinforcement of four hundred
horse and four hundred foot, if we attacked them. conditions annexed, vicinity ;
The treaty was concluded in the evening on the and I promised to decamp the next day and withdraw my troops from their
which I was, indeed, obliged to do by the number of sick which had augmented to such a it was with difficulty I found enough of persons in health to remove the sick to the
degree that
canoes, besides the scarcity of provisions having no more than the