I told M. le Moine of the above. to blows with their Father.

My brother expects to leave with your deputies to carry to you the result of the Iroquois Diet, where the Onnontague who assumes to be a moderator, pretends to force the Senecas to disavow what two of their captains caused their warriors to do, and to quieten again your mind that is, they say, by some satisfaction which may afford you an honorable pretext to pay a friendly visit to Kaniata;

rontagouat [now, Irondequot Bay] and not to appear there as an enemy. I forgot to inform you that the Iroquois say they have accepted the satisfaction they received for the death of their captain, Hannhenhax, killed by the Kiskakous, and that it would seem very

strange to them that you should refuse the satisfaction they wish to induce the Senecas to give you for the pillaged

merchandize which, in their estimation is next to nothing compared with that im-

portant [council] fire in your children's cabin.

I pray God that

He conduct matters for His glory

and the country's good and that He preserve you long, which is the wish, my Lord, of

Your very humble & very ob* Serv4 J.

,

DE LaMBERVILLE.

FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME. 18 July, 1684.

Sir-- The Council convoked at Onnontague was, at length, held on the 16^ and 17*h of July. You will see by the memoir I enclose in this letter what you said to the Onnontagues and what they reply by three Belts. Since you spoke, or I have made you speak to the Senecas assembled here in a body, Chiefs and Warriors, and their answer, we have spoken to them by three Belts and they have answered you by nine. These are twelve Belts which your ambassadors take to you. trifling