ed this fall.

Some furs are to be collectThere is no news yet

He is treating on this subject with Hannagoge and Ganakontie\

from the Senecas.

FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME. Onnontague, this 9th Octob. 1684.

My Lord, -- The message you sent here by three canoemen from Montreal shows you to be in reality a man of your word.

Sieur Grande Gueule has been informed by express, who is gone to find him

from here, that you have written.

I shall cause him when he returns you to have satisfaction given you. I have spoken in his absence both privately and publicly, to influential persons and obtained promises from the chiefs and warriors that they would send two strings of wampum to the Senecas in three days to put them in mind of the word which the leader of those who pillaged the French canoes had himself brought here, from those of his own nation, that they had accepted all you had concluded at La Famine. told them what you had concluded and had ordered me to acquaint them with. The report about the thousand Illinois is a mere rumor without any foundation, and M. duLut told me at Katarakoui, that he did not believe the truth of this news besides there cannot be any apprehension that they could have dared to undertake any thing, having met neither Frenchmen nor Outaouas. All that they could make a demontration against have more fuzileers than they.

at his fishery eight leagues