among us, to seduce our people to Montreal every year.

my children of the Sault nor of the Mountain who dismember your country who dismember it by your drunkenness and superstitions. Besides, there is full liberty to come and reside among us no person is retained by force. The General added two presents to the above. By the first he said You see the consideration which I have for the request you have made me. Answer.

It is not

it is yourselves

;

:

I ask you in return, if first give

the Seneca, Cayuga or any other commit a similar insult against me, that you

him some sense, and if he will not hear you, that you abandon him as one disaffected.

By the last belt, he exhorted them to listen not to evil sayings, and told them to conduct Tegannehout back to Seneca and to inform these of the above conclusions.

M.

DE MEULLES TO THE MINISTER. [From the same.]

My Lord-- I thought you would be impatient to learn the success and result of the war the General had undertaken against the Iroquois which rendered it necessary for him to call a part of the people of this country together and make all necessary preparation, at his Majesty's expense, for this expedition. The troops have been as far as a place called La Famine, thirty leagues beyond Fort Frontenac. The army consisted of nine hundred French and three hundred Savages, and from the Niagara side there was another army of six hundred men, one third of whom were French and the remainder Ottawas and Hurons, amounting in all to eighteen hundred men. What Indians there were evinced the best disposition to fight the Iroquois to the death. Sieur de la Durantaye who brought the last six hundred men from Missilimakinak, has informed us that he learned from a Miami Chief that more than a thousand Illinois were coming to our aid on learning that we were about to fight the Iroquois, to such a degree are they their irreconcileable enemies.