through whom he will pass, to keep their word with you. his troop towards the quarter

you forbad him.

Senecas

He has assured me that he will not lead

I notified

him as well as the others that you had

despatched a canoe to inform the Oumiamies and the Maskenses that you had included them in the peace, and that they could remain secure at the place where they had been before they were at

with the Iroquois.

The

Senecas shall

be equally notified of this in a few days.

sured, my Lord, that I shall spare no pains to have that satisfaction given

war

You may rest asyou which you expect

from the Iroquois. The frenchmen who came here told me that whilst you were at La Famine a false alarm reached Montreal that the Iroquois were coming; that there was nothing but horror, flight and weeping at Montreal. What would so many poor people have done in their settlements if merely six hundred Iroquois had made an irruption into the country in the condition in which it is. You form a better opinion than one hundred manufacturers of rhodomontades who were not acquainted with the Iroquois, and who reflect not that the country, such as it is, is not in a condition to defend itself.

Had I the honor to converse with you longer than your little leisure allowed me, I should

have convinced you that you could not have advanced to Paniaforontogouat [Irondequoit bay] without having been utterly defeated in the state your army was in which was rather an hospital than a camp. To attack people within their entrenchments and fight banditti in the bush will require one