He had determined not to leave until the 15 th of August; he departed on the 1

th of

July.

That did not prevent me furnishing all that he required of me, such

as batteaux, canoes, arms, ammunition, and all the provisions he desired.

yet remained at the end of the island of Montreal, at a place called

This is so true that there

La Chine thirty-five thousand

weight of flour and five of biscuit which he found on his return, and which he had requested me

Had he not halted, and had he been disposed to push into the convoy of provisions which accompanied liim had sufficed, the greater number of the militia, unwilling to wait for the King's supplies having laid in their own private

to' retain for

him at Montreal.

Iroquois Country, the

first

back with them, which all the Captains in command This convoy consisted of eighteen canoes full of biscuit, pork, brandy and apparently

stock, the greater part of which they brought will certify.

other things which I do not precisely know having been loaded at Montreal whilst I was at Quebec

where I issued orders for the provisions that the General had demanded of me and for attending to the harvest of those who had gone to the war.

had been the General's design to make war, he should not have caused the cargoes of the eighteen canoes I have mentioned to be put into barks thirty leagues from Montreal above the Rapids, instead of letting the voyage be continued by the canoemen who were paid to go to Fort Frontenac and who had already accomplished the roughest half of the road, and who, without a doubt, would have arrived in three days at the Fort, which was represented to him by all the officers who stated to him that the barks required wind which being contrary would keep them more than three weeks from arriving.