Do him the charity to exhort him to be a good Christian, as he was whose name he bears, and who was his brother. Recommend him I beseech you not to get drunk any more, as he promised when he was baptized, and to perform the duties of a Christian. One word convoked at Albany.

from you will have a wonderful effect on his mind, and he will publish throughout that it is not true them to be Christians since you who command them will have exhorted

that the English forbid

them to persevere therein. I pray God, who has given us the grace to be united in the same Catholic faith, to unite us also in Heaven and that he may heap his graces on you here on earth, is the wish of him who is perfectly and with all manner of respect, My Lord, Your very humble and ;

very obedient servant,

Jean de Lamberville, of the order of Jesuits, (called in Indian, Teiorhensere.)

Oblige me, I request you, to have the enclosed sent to its address. Please,

My Lord, pardon me the liberty which I take to present my humble respects to the Governor of Virginia, who is called among the Indians, Big Sword or Cutlass, who I learn is with you at

Albany, to whom, some time ago, I caused to be restored an Englishman named Rolelman, whom these Indians here had plundered and captured and whom I took into my hut to save him from the