" Theie letters must be kept secret."

might occur ; I have not forgotten this word, and in obedience to it, I request you to throw into that ditch the Seneca robbery, and that it may disturb neither our country nor yours.

That ditch is well cut, but as your young men have no sense, and as they may make this a pretext for committing acts of hostility anew, after having cast the Seneca robbery into that ditch, Answer.

I cover it up forever.

as you desire ; arrest, then, your young men, as I shall restrain mine.

4th Word. I set up again the tree of peace, which we planted at Montreal, in the conference we had the honor to have with you last summer. Answer. It is not I who think of throwing it down it is your nephews who have seriously shaken :

it.

I strengthen it.

5th

I exhort you, Father, to sustain it strongly, in order that nothing

Word.

I again tie up (je rattache) the Sun

6 th Word.

may shake it.

which was altogether obscured

:

I dispel all

the

clouds and mists that concealed it from our view. 7th

The robbery committed by the Senecas on your nephews, is not a sufficient motive to make war against them. Where has blood been shed? I promise you that satisfaction shall be afforded you for the loss the French have experienced by the pillage of their merchandize. Answer of Onontio. It is good that you promise me satisfaction deceive me not. The first thing that I expect of you is, that you restore me the two prisoners of Etionnontate who are with the Word.