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

trifle of bread

which I brought

them. allowed the Onontagues to light the Council

fire at this post without extinguishing that at Montreal, in order to be entitled to take possession of it by their consent when the King should desire it and thereby exclude the English and Col. Dongan from their pretensions.

On leaving the Fort I had ordered one of the barks to go to Niagara to notify the army of the South to return by Lake Erie towards Missilimakinack. She had a favorable passage found it ;

arrived only six hours previously to the number of seven hundred men, viz : one hundred and fifty

French and the remainder Indians. I departed on the sixth, having had all the sick of

my troops embarked before day (so as not to be

seen by the Indians) to the number of one hundred and

fifty canoes

and twelve flat batteaux and

arrived in the evening of the same day at Fort Frontenac, where I found one hundred and ten men