They are expected in order to talk fully of affairs and to endeavour for the preservation peace to induce them to give to you satisfaction. I believe if you are really desirous to come to an arrangement in

which an effort will be made to satisfy you, and wherein will be prescribed the boundaries of war and trade, you would have leisure to provide with

less trouble and embarrassment for the security of Canada, either

by erecting forts at La Famine or

towards the Senecas under the pretext of establishing a blacksmith, or at La Galette according as jrou think proper.

I do not believe that

you will derive any advantage this year from war, if you wage it

;

for not

only will almost the whole of the Iroquois prosecute the war in Canada, but you will not find the

Senecas in their villages, in which they give out they will not shut themselves up, but conceal themselves in the grass and prepare ambuscades every where for you.

Regarding your declaration to the

you had no ill will except against the Senecas, they convoked a general Diet here, where they will conclude to league themselves against you, if you will not accept the propositions of Iroquois that

peace for which the Onontague wishes to obtain the consent of the Seneca who has already placed in security the old grain, and

made a retreat in the woods for the children, women and old men, of

which you will be ignorant. The Warriors are to prowl every where, killing without if possible being killed. If their Indian corn be cut, it will cost much blood and men You must also resolve to lose the harvest of the French grain to which the Iroquois will set fire. As for the French settlements, the Iroquois sup-