and to learm the true cause of the withdrawal of our Missionaries. Finally I told them that the^real cause was, that the displeasure which they perceived you felt, and which they also entertained at being disparaged by the Senecas, had caused them to withdraw to you,

state of affairs

until they should

have satisfied you.

At length the Onnontagues persuaded them to confide in

them and to place their affairs in their hands--that if you did not accept should unite according

to

their

their mediation, they

Iroquois against you.

La Grande

assuredly signalized themselves in this rencounter.

My brother,

policy, with all

Gueule and his triumvirate have who will inform you of every thing, will

relate

the other

matters more in detail.

We, however, await

your orders which you will please convey to us by M. le Moine whom the Onnontagues request you to send instantly to them at Choueguen [Oswego] in all security and without the least fear.

DE LA BARRe's EXPEDITION TO HUNGRY BAY,

FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME. Onontagug, this 17th August, 1684.

My Lord--Your people have brought my brother back here with the greatest possible diligence, having been

wind bound tliree days, at one island.

In order not to cause you any delay,

which could only produce a useless consumption of provisions by your army, they arrived here with Sieur le Due at midnight and having passed the rest of the night in conferring together, we had the Chiefs and Warriors assembled at day light after having obtained information from