them and keep the knowledge of it from every body.

By these means he made use of

these canoes to convey these merchandises to the Fort at the King's expense, which he has always practised for two years, ever pretending certain necessity to transport munitions of war, and to make use, by this means, of the conveyances for which the King is made to pay, under pretext to keep the

Fort in good order.

It is

impossible to conceive the quantity of Brandy that he has caused to be

DE LA BARRE'S EXPEDITION TO HUNGRY BAY.

conveyed thither during eighteen months, of which I have had most positive information, and of

which I had the honor to advise you in my last. Others supposed that he had the said provisions put on board those barks in order to obtain time and by this address, to negotiate a peace with the Iroquois, as he had sent Sieur Le Moyne to them who

is a very

these negotiations, stating openly that they ought to be whipt.

brave man and who despaired of all All the delays at Montreal, the Fort,

and at La Famine caused the useless consumption of a portion of the supplies which, however did not fail; other convoys having been received from time to time, but these were always wasted without any thing having been done. After the said General had determined in his own mind on this war, he sent the man named Bourbon, an inhabitant of this country to Colonel Dongan to advise him that he was obliged to wage war against the Iroquois, requesting him not to afford them any aid ;