But the General did not think proper to push matters any farther, and without any necessity sent Sieur Le Moyne to the said Iroquois to treat of peace at a time when every one was in good health, and when all necessary provision was made of food, &c. to dare every enterprize and finally after various comings and goings on one side and ;
the other, the General concluded peace such as you will see by the articles which I take the liberty to send you as written by the hand of his Secretary.
This peace, my Lord, has astonished all the officers who had the command in that army and all those who composed it, who have testified so deep a displeasure and so sovereign a contempt for the it to him. I assure you, my Lord, that had I strayed ever so little from my duty and not exhibited exteriorly, since his return,
General's person that they could not prevent themselves evincing
the respect I owe his character, the whole world would have risen against him and would have been guilty of some excess.
DE LA BARRE's EXPEDITION TO HUNGRY BAY.
The said General excuses himself because of the sick and even says that the troops lacked food
;
to which I feel obliged to answer, being certain that he seeks every pretext and has recourse to every
expedient to exculpate himself and perhaps to put the blame on me.
number of sick among the Militia which he took with him to Fort Frontenac, who were in perfect good health on arriving there, but having encamped them for a 'Tis certain that there was a great